Omri Abend

Orcid: 0000-0003-4311-3876

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  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


According to our database1, Omri Abend authored at least 92 papers between 2008 and 2025.

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2025
A language-agnostic model of child language acquisition.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2025

2024
The Future of Open Human Feedback.
CoRR, 2024

Jamba-1.5: Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Models at Scale.
CoRR, 2024

Beneath the Surface of Consistency: Exploring Cross-lingual Knowledge Representation Sharing in LLMs.
CoRR, 2024

The ShareLM Collection and Plugin: Contributing Human-Model Chats for the Benefit of the Community.
CoRR, 2024

Assessing the Role of Lexical Semantics in Cross-lingual Transfer through Controlled Manipulations.
CoRR, 2024

Surveying the Landscape of Image Captioning Evaluation: A Comprehensive Taxonomy and Novel Ensemble Method.
CoRR, 2024

CovScore: Evaluation of Multi-Document Abstractive Title Set Generation.
CoRR, 2024

Learning from Naturally Occurring Feedback.
CoRR, 2024

A Nurse is Blue and Elephant is Rugby: Cross Domain Alignment in Large Language Models Reveal Human-like Patterns.
CoRR, 2024

Identifying Narrative Patterns and Outliers in Holocaust Testimonies Using Topic Modeling.
CoRR, 2024

Jamba: A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model.
CoRR, 2024

CONTESTS: a Framework for Consistency Testing of Span Probabilities in Language Models.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

Exploring the Learning Capabilities of Language Models using LEVERWORLDS.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

Locally Measuring Cross-lingual Lexical Alignment: A Domain and Word Level Perspective.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024

Generating Benchmarks for Factuality Evaluation of Language Models.
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023
Event-Location Tracking in Narratives: A Case Study on Holocaust Testimonies.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Human Learning by Model Feedback: The Dynamics of Iterative Prompting with Midjourney.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Improving Cross-lingual Transfer through Subtree-aware Word Reordering.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

Evaluating and Improving the Coreference Capabilities of Machine Translation Models.
Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

A Large-Scale Multilingual Study of Visual Constraints on Linguistic Selection of Descriptions.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, 2023

MuLER: Detailed and Scalable Reference-based Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2023

Parallel Context Windows for Large Language Models.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

DisentQA: Disentangling Parametric and Contextual Knowledge with Counterfactual Question Answering.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022
Parallel Context Windows Improve In-Context Learning of Large Language Models.
CoRR, 2022

Some Grammatical Errors are Frequent, Others are Important.
CoRR, 2022

MRKL Systems: A modular, neuro-symbolic architecture that combines large language models, external knowledge sources and discrete reasoning.
CoRR, 2022

Semantics-aware Attention Improves Neural Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2022

A Computational Acquisition Model for Multimodal Word Categorization.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

Topical Segmentation of Spoken Narratives: A Test Case on Holocaust Survivor Testimonies.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

PreQuEL: Quality Estimation of Machine Translation Outputs in Advance.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

On Neurons Invariant to Sentence Structural Changes in Neural Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2022

Enhancing the Transformer Decoder with Transition-based Syntax.
Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2022

Cognitive Simplification Operations Improve Text Simplification.
Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2022

Reinforcement Learning with Large Action Spaces for Neural Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

The Grammar-Learning Trajectories of Neural Language Models.
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022

2021
Cross-linguistically Consistent Semantic and Syntactic Annotation of Child-directed Speech.
CoRR, 2021

Part of Speech and Universal Dependency effects on English Arabic Machine Translation.
CoRR, 2021

Q<sup>2</sup>: Evaluating Factual Consistency in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogues via Question Generation and Question Answering.
CoRR, 2021

SERRANT: a syntactic classifier for English Grammatical Error Types.
CoRR, 2021

Transition based Graph Decoder for Neural Machine Translation.
CoRR, 2021

Mediators in Determining what Processing BERT Performs First.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2021

PMI-Masking: Principled masking of correlated spans.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021

Putting Words in BERT's Mouth: Navigating Contextualized Vector Spaces with Pseudowords.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

$Q^2$: Evaluating Factual Consistency in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogues via Question Generation and Question Answering.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

On the Relation between Syntactic Divergence and Zero-Shot Performance.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Paths to Relation Extraction through Semantic Structure.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL/IJCNLP 2021, 2021

2020
UCCA's Foundational Layer: Annotation Guidelines v2.1.
CoRR, 2020

Semantic Structural Decomposition for Neural Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the Ninth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2020

On the Weaknesses of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2020

MRP 2020: The Second Shared Task on Cross-Framework and Cross-Lingual Meaning Representation Parsing.
Proceedings of the CoNLL 2020 Shared Task: Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing, 2020

Classifying Syntactic Errors in Learner Language.
Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2020

Comparison by Conversion: Reverse-Engineering UCCA from Syntax and Lexical Semantics.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

Cross-lingual Semantic Representation for NLP with UCCA.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

Language (Re)modelling: Towards Embodied Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

Fine-Grained Analysis of Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Divergences.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

Machine Reading of Historical Events.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

2019
Semantically Constrained Multilayer Annotation: The Case of Coreference.
CoRR, 2019

Content Differences in Syntactic and Semantic Representations.
CoRR, 2019

SemEval-2019 Task 1: Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing with UCCA.
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2019

Content Differences in Syntactic and Semantic Representation.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019

Made for Each Other: Broad-Coverage Semantic Structures Meet Preposition Supersenses.
Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2019

MRP 2019: Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing.
Proceedings of the Shared Task on Cross-Framework Meaning Representation Parsing at the 2019 Conference on Natural Language Learning, 2019

Automatically Extracting Challenge Sets for Non-Local Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2019

The Language of Legal and Illegal Activity on the Darknet.
Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

2018
Inherent Biases in Reference-based Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction and Text Simplification.
CoRR, 2018

Semantic Structural Evaluation for Text Simplification.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

Reference-less Measure of Faithfulness for Grammatical Error Correction.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

BLEU is Not Suitable for the Evaluation of Text Simplification.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

Universal Dependency Parsing with a General Transition-Based DAG Parser.
Proceedings of the CoNLL 2018 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

Comprehensive Supersense Disambiguation of English Prepositions and Possessives.
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

Simple and Effective Text Simplification Using Semantic and Neural Methods.
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

Multitask Parsing Across Semantic Representations.
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

Automatic Metric Validation for Grammatical Error Correction.
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

Inherent Biases in Reference-based Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction.
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

2017
Adposition Supersenses v2.
CoRR, 2017

A Transition-Based Directed Acyclic Graph Parser for UCCA.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

UCCAApp: Web-application for Syntactic and Semantic Phrase-based Annotation.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

The State of the Art in Semantic Representation.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

2016
HUME: Human UCCA-Based Evaluation of Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

2015
Lexical Event Ordering with an Edge-Factored Model.
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2015, The 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 31, 2015

2014
Lexical Inference over Multi-Word Predicates: A Distributional Approach.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

2013
Grammatical annotation founded on semantics : a cognitive grammar approach to grammatical corpus annotation (עם תקציר בעברית ושער נוסף: תיוג דקדוקי מבוסס סמנטיקה.).
PhD thesis, 2013

UCCA: A Semantics-based Grammatical Annotation Scheme.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 2013

Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation (UCCA).
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

2012
Learnability-Based Syntactic Annotation Design.
Proceedings of the COLING 2012, 2012

2011
Neutralizing Linguistically Problematic Annotations in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2011

2010
Type Level Clustering Evaluation: New Measures and a POS Induction Case Study.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2010

Improved Unsupervised POS Induction through Prototype Discovery.
Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010

Fully Unsupervised Core-Adjunct Argument Classification.
Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010

2009
Unsupervised Argument Identification for Semantic Role Labeling.
Proceedings of the ACL 2009, 2009

2008
A Supervised Algorithm for Verb Disambiguation into VerbNet Classes.
Proceedings of the COLING 2008, 2008


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