Publications

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2024

• Salam Khalifa, Abed Qaddoumi, Ellen Broselow, and Owen Rambow. "Picking Up Where the Linguist Left Off: Mapping Morphology to Phonology through Learning the Residuals". In ArabicNLP 2024, co-located with ACL 2024.

• Christian Khairallah, Salam Khalifa, Reham Marzouk, Mayar Nassar, and Nizar Habash. "CAMELMORPH MSA: A Large-Scale Open-Source Morphological Analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic." In LREC-COLING 2024.

• [abstract] Salam Khalifa, Mohammadsadegh Ghalayani, Ellen Broselow, Robert Hoberman, Jordan Kodner, Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel, and Owen Rambow. "Putting the Linguist’s Rules to Work." Presented at ASAL37 [poster][abstract].

• Christian Khairallah, Reham Marzouk, Salam Khalifa, Mayar Nassar, and Nizar Habash. "Computational Morphology and Lexicography Modeling of Modern Standard Arabic Nominals." EACL 2024 Findings.

2023

• Kodner, Jordan, {Salam Khalifa, Sarah Payne}. "Exploring Linguistic Probes for Morphological Generalization." EMNLP 2023

• Khalifa, Salam, Sarah Payne, Jordan Kodner, Ellen Broselow,  and Owen Rambow. "A Cautious Generalization Goes a Long Way."  ACL 2023.   

• Kodner, Jordan, {Sarah Payne, Salam Khalifa}, and Zoey Liu. "Morphological Inflection: A Reality Check." ACL 2023.

• Mirbostani, Seyed Morteza, Yasaman Boreshban, Salam Khalifa, SeyedAbolghasem Mirroshandel, and Owen Rambow. "Deep Active Learning for Morphophonology." ACL 2023.

• Kodner, Jordan, {Salam Khalifa, Sarah Payne}, and Zoey Liu. "Re-Evaluating Neural Models of Morphological Inflection." CogSci 2023. 

• [abstract] Khalifa, Salam. "In Search of Morphological Productivity: The Arabic Noun Plural".  Presented at ASAL36 (received
  best student abstract award) [slides][abstract].

2022

• Khalifa, Salam, Jordan Kodner, and Owen Rambow. "Towards Learning Arabic Morhpophonology". In WANLP 2022.

• Kodner, Jordan, and Salam Khalifa. "SIGMORPHON-UniMorph 2022 Shared Task 0: Modeling Inflection in Language Acquisition". In SIGMORPHON 2022.

• Kodner, Jordan, Salam Khalifa, Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, et al. "SIGMORPHON-UniMorph 2022 Shared Task 0: Generalization and Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection". In SIGMORPHON 2022.

• Habash, Nizar, Reham Marzouk, Christian Khairallah,  and Salam Khalifa. "Morphotactic Modeling in an Open-source Multi-dialectal Arabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator". In SIGMORPHON 2022.

• Abdulrahim, Dana, Go Inoue, Latifa Shamsan, Salam Khalifa and Nizar Habash. "The Bahrain Corpus: A Multi-genre Corpus of Bahraini Arabic". In  LREC 2022.

• Batsuren, Khuyagbaatar, Omer Goldman, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash et al. "UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology". In LREC 2022.

• Inoue, Go, Salam Khalifa, and Nizar Habash. "Morphosyntactic Tagging with Pre-trained Language Models for Arabic and its Dialects".  In ACL 2022 Findings.

2021

• Inoue, Go, Salam Khalifa, and Nizar Habash. "Morphosyntactic Tagging with Pre-trained Language Models for Arabic and its Dialects." arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06852 (2021).

• Pimentel, Tiago, Maria Ryskina, Sabrina J. Mielke, Shijie Wu, Eleanor Chodroff, Brian Leonard, Garrett Nicolai, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash et al. "SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection: Generalization Across Languages." In SIGMORPHON 2021.

2020

• Khalifa, Salam, Nasser Zalmout, and Nizar Habash. "Morphological Disambiguation for Gulf Arabic: The Interplay between Resources and Methods". In LREC 2020.

• Obeid, Ossama, Nasser Zalmout, Salam Khalifa, Dima Taji, Mai Oudah, Bashar Alhafni, Go Inoue, Fadhl Eryani, Alexander Erdmann, and Nizar Habash. "CAMeL Tools: An Open Source Python Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Processing".  In LREC 2020.

• Eryani, Fadhl, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, and Salam Khalifa. "A Spelling Correction Corpus for Multiple Arabic Dialects".  In LREC 2020.

2019

• Ali, Ahmed, Salam Khalifa, and Nizar Habash. "Towards Variability Resistant Dialectal Speech Evaluation." In INTERSPEECH 2019.

• Erdmann, Alexander, Salam Khalifa, Mai Oudah, Nizar Habash, and Houda Bouamor. "A Little Linguistics Goes a Long Way: Unsupervised Segmentation with Limited Language Specific Guidance." In SIGMORPHON 2019.

2018

• Taji, Dima, Salam Khalifa, Ossama Obeid, Fadhl Eryani, and Nizar Habash. "An Arabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator with Copious Features." In SIGMORPHON 2018.

• Khalifa, Salam, Nizar Habash, Fadhl Eryani, Ossama Obeid, Dana Abdulrahim, and Meera Al Kaabi. "A Morphologically Annotated Corpus of Emirati Arabic." In LREC 2018.

• Obeid, Ossama, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani, and Kemal Oflazer. "MADARi: A Web Interface for Joint Arabic Morphological Annotation and Spelling Correction." In LREC 2018.

• Habash, Nizar, Fadhl Eryani, Salam Khalifa, Owen Rambow, Dana Abdulrahim, Alexander Erdmann, Reem Faraj et al. "Unified Guidelines and Resources for Arabic Dialect Orthography." In LREC 2018.

• Bouamor, Houda, Nizar Habash, Mohammad Salameh, Wajdi Zaghouani, Owen Rambow, Dana Abdulrahim, Ossama Obeid et al. "The MADAR Arabic Dialect Corpus and Lexicon." In LREC 2018.

2017

• Khalifa, Salam, Sara Hassan, and Nizar Habash. "A morphological analyzer for Gulf Arabic verbs." In WANLP 2017.

2016

• Khalifa, Salam, Nasser Zalmout, and Nizar Habash. "Yamama: Yet another multi-dialect Arabic morphological analyzer." In COLING 2016.

• Shahrour, Anas, Salam Khalifa, Dima Taji, and Nizar Habash. "Camelparser: A system for Arabic syntactic analysis and morphological disambiguation." In COLING 2016.

• Khalifa, Salam, Nizar Habash, Dana Abdulrahim, and Sara Hassan. "A Large Scale Corpus of Gulf Arabic." In LREC 2016.

• Khalifa, Salam, Houda Bouamor, and Nizar Habash. "DALILA: The Dialectal Arabic Linguistic Learning Assistant." In LREC 2016

2015

• Shahrour, Anas, Salam Khalifa, and Nizar Habash. "Improving Arabic diacritization through syntactic analysis." In EMNLP 2015.