Owen Rambow
Owen Rambow researches natural language processing, including morphology, syntax, language generation and Arabic. Rambow received his Penn computer and information sciences PhD in 1994. With Nizar Habash, he published a 2005 method that combines Arabic tokenization and morphological tagging using learned classifiers. He later coauthored MADAMIRA, which joined capabilities from two earlier Arabic-processing systems. ACL elected him a fellow in 2022 for syntax, grammar formalisms, dependency processing, generation and Arabic language processing.
- Now at
- Stony Brook University
- Works
- 420
- Citations
- 8,876
- h-index
- 45
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1994
Doctoral work in language computing
Rambow received his PhD in computer and information sciences from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He researches natural language processing and computational linguistics, with interests in morphology, syntax and language use in context.
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2005
Joint tokenization and morphological tagging
With Nizar Habash, Rambow published an approach that uses a morphological analyzer to tokenize and tag Arabic words in one process. It learns classifiers for individual morphological features, then uses them to choose among possible analyses. The original paper places both authors at Columbia’s Center for Computational Learning Systems.
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2014
Shared work on MADAMIRA
Rambow coauthored MADAMIRA with Pasha, Al-Badrashiny, Diab, El Kholy, Eskander, Habash, Pooleery and Roth. The system combines aspects of MADA and AMIRA for Arabic morphological analysis and disambiguation. The paper describes a more streamlined Java implementation and an online demonstration.
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2022
Recognition for language structure and processing
ACL elected Rambow a fellow in 2022. His work includes syntax, Tree Adjoining Grammars, dependency processing, natural language generation and Arabic processing. At the time, he was at Stony Brook.
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