Omri Abend

89 papers · 2008–2026 · 11 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (10) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (8) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🏃 Academic Marathon (17) 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (16) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (10) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (7) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (27) 👥 Mega-Team (61) 🔬 Deep Specialist (15) 🧬 Topic Evolution 🏆 Keyword Champion (3) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (25) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (309) 💎 Century Club (88) 📈 Trend Setter 🔥 Unstoppable (18) ⚡ Prolific Year (7) ❓ The Questioner (2)

Conferences

ACL (27) EMNLP (21) CONLL (13) COLING (8) NAACL (8) EACL (3) ICLR (3) IJCNLP (3) AAAI (1) AACL (1) SEMEVAL (1)

Top co-authors

Leshem Choshen (25) Ari Rappoport (21) Daniel Hershcovich (12) Taelin Karidi (9) Nathan Schneider (7) Eitan Wagner (7) Roi Reichart (6) Elior Sulem (6) Jakob Prange (5) Renana Keydar (5)

Research topics

Linguistics (2) Applications (1) Privacy (1) Digital Humanities (1)

Keywords

semantic parsing (10) universal dependencies (9) machine translation (8) text simplification (7) neural machine translation (6) transition-based parsing (5) semantic representation (5) grammatical error correction (5) language model (5) syntactic parsing (4) natural language processing (4) cross-lingual transfer (4) semantic analysis (4) text generation (3) text classification (3) question answering (3) inductive bia (3) lexical semantics (3) evaluation metric (3) cross-lingual parsing (3)

Papers

Control Illusion: The Failure of Instruction Hierarchies in Large Language Models AAAI 2026

Mind Your Theory: Theory of Mind Goes Deeper Than Reasoning ACL 2025

Beneath the Surface of Consistency: Exploring Cross-lingual Knowledge Representation Sharing in LLMs NAACL 2025

QA-Noun: Representing Nominal Semantics via Natural Language Question-Answer Pairs IJCNLP 2025

Jamba: Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Models ICLR 2025

Computational Analysis of Character Development in Holocaust Testimonies EMNLP 2025

T5Score: A Methodology for Automatically Assessing the Quality of LLM Generated Multi-Document Topic Sets ACL 2025

QA-Noun: Representing Nominal Semantics via Natural Language Question-Answer Pairs AACL 2025

The ShareLM Collection and Plugin: Contributing Human-Model Chats for the Benefit of the Community ACL 2025

CONTESTS: a Framework for Consistency Testing of Span Probabilities in Language Models EMNLP 2024

Generating Benchmarks for Factuality Evaluation of Language Models EACL 2024

Aligning Alignments: Do Colexification and Distributional Similarity Align as Measures of cross-lingual Lexical Alignment? CONLL 2024

Zero-shot Trajectory Mapping in Holocaust Testimonies COLING 2024

Identifying Narrative Patterns and Outliers in Holocaust Testimonies Using Topic Modeling COLING 2024

Aligning Alignments: Do Colexification and Distributional Similarity Align as Measures of cross-lingual Lexical Alignment? EMNLP 2024

Locally Measuring Cross-lingual Lexical Alignment: A Domain and Word Level Perspective EMNLP 2024

Exploring the Learning Capabilities of Language Models using LEVERWORLDS EMNLP 2024

Parallel Context Windows for Large Language Models ACL 2023

MuLER: Detailed and Scalable Reference-based Evaluation CONLL 2023

MuLER: Detailed and Scalable Reference-based Evaluation EMNLP 2023

Improving Cross-lingual Transfer through Subtree-aware Word Reordering EMNLP 2023

Event-Location Tracking in Narratives: A Case Study on Holocaust Testimonies EMNLP 2023

Human Learning by Model Feedback: The Dynamics of Iterative Prompting with Midjourney EMNLP 2023

DisentQA: Disentangling Parametric and Contextual Knowledge with Counterfactual Question Answering ACL 2023

A Large-Scale Multilingual Study of Visual Constraints on Linguistic Selection of Descriptions EACL 2023

Evaluating and Improving the Coreference Capabilities of Machine Translation Models EACL 2023

Reinforcement Learning with Large Action Spaces for Neural Machine Translation COLING 2022

The Grammar-Learning Trajectories of Neural Language Models ACL 2022

On Neurons Invariant to Sentence Structural Changes in Neural Machine Translation CONLL 2022

Cognitive Simplification Operations Improve Text Simplification CONLL 2022

Enhancing the Transformer Decoder with Transition-based Syntax CONLL 2022

Topical Segmentation of Spoken Narratives: A Test Case on Holocaust Survivor Testimonies EMNLP 2022

PreQuEL: Quality Estimation of Machine Translation Outputs in Advance EMNLP 2022

On Neurons Invariant to Sentence Structural Changes in Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2022

Cognitive Simplification Operations Improve Text Simplification EMNLP 2022

Enhancing the Transformer Decoder with Transition-based Syntax EMNLP 2022

A Computational Acquisition Model for Multimodal Word Categorization NAACL 2022

Semantics-aware Attention Improves Neural Machine Translation NAACL 2022

Putting Words in BERT’s Mouth: Navigating Contextualized Vector Spaces with Pseudowords EMNLP 2021

Paths to Relation Extraction through Semantic Structure ACL 2021

Paths to Relation Extraction through Semantic Structure IJCNLP 2021

PMI-Masking: Principled masking of correlated spans ICLR 2021

Mediators in Determining what Processing BERT Performs First NAACL 2021

Q2: Evaluating Factual Consistency in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogues via Question Generation and Question Answering EMNLP 2021

On the Relation between Syntactic Divergence and Zero-Shot Performance EMNLP 2021

Comparison by Conversion: Reverse-Engineering UCCA from Syntax and Lexical Semantics COLING 2020

Language (Re)modelling: Towards Embodied Language Understanding ACL 2020

Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language CONLL 2020

Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language EMNLP 2020

MRP 2020: The Second Shared Task on Cross-Framework and Cross-Lingual Meaning Representation Parsing EMNLP 2020

On the Weaknesses of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation ICLR 2020

Machine Reading of Historical Events ACL 2020

MRP 2020: The Second Shared Task on Cross-Framework and Cross-Lingual Meaning Representation Parsing CONLL 2020

Fine-Grained Analysis of Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Divergences ACL 2020

Semantic Structural Decomposition for Neural Machine Translation COLING 2020

Cross-lingual Semantic Representation for NLP with UCCA COLING 2020

MRP 2019: Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing CONLL 2019

Automatically Extracting Challenge Sets for Non-Local Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation CONLL 2019

Proceedings of the Shared Task on Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing at the 2019 Conference on Natural Language Learning CONLL 2019

Semantically Constrained Multilayer Annotation: The Case of Coreference ACL 2019

Preparing SNACS for Subjects and Objects ACL 2019

The Language of Legal and Illegal Activity on the Darknet ACL 2019

Made for Each Other: Broad-Coverage Semantic Structures Meet Preposition Supersenses CONLL 2019

Content Differences in Syntactic and Semantic Representation NAACL 2019

SemEval-2019 Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA SEMEVAL 2019

Universal Dependency Parsing with a General Transition-Based DAG Parser CONLL 2018

Semantic Structural Evaluation for Text Simplification NAACL 2018

Reference-less Measure of Faithfulness for Grammatical Error Correction NAACL 2018

Automatic Metric Validation for Grammatical Error Correction ACL 2018

BLEU is Not Suitable for the Evaluation of Text Simplification EMNLP 2018

Inherent Biases in Reference-based Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction ACL 2018

Multitask Parsing Across Semantic Representations ACL 2018

Comprehensive Supersense Disambiguation of English Prepositions and Possessives ACL 2018

Simple and Effective Text Simplification Using Semantic and Neural Methods ACL 2018

The State of the Art in Semantic Representation ACL 2017

UCCAApp: Web-application for Syntactic and Semantic Phrase-based Annotation ACL 2017

A Transition-Based Directed Acyclic Graph Parser for UCCA ACL 2017

HUME: Human UCCA-Based Evaluation of Machine Translation EMNLP 2016

Lexical Event Ordering with an Edge-Factored Model NAACL 2015

Lexical Inference over Multi-Word Predicates: A Distributional Approach ACL 2014

Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation (UCCA) ACL 2013

Learnability-Based Syntactic Annotation Design COLING 2012

Neutralizing Linguistically Problematic Annotations in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing Evaluation ACL 2011

Fully Unsupervised Core-Adjunct Argument Classification ACL 2010

Improved Unsupervised POS Induction through Prototype Discovery ACL 2010

Type Level Clustering Evaluation: New Measures and a POS Induction Case Study CONLL 2010

Unsupervised Argument Identification for Semantic Role Labeling IJCNLP 2009

Unsupervised Argument Identification for Semantic Role Labeling ACL 2009

A Supervised Algorithm for Verb Disambiguation into VerbNet Classes COLING 2008