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David A. Smith

David A. Smith has 4 papers in our library, in 2006–2021, most of them on English; often with Liwen Hou, Andrew McCallum, David Mimno.

4 papers in our library · 2006–2021

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 36 · 245 works · 6,073 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 4 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 478 times in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3318

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 Affiliations

🎓Northeastern UniversityBoston · United States2012–2026 · 36 papersEmployment since 2012 · Associate Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciencescurrent🎓Baylor UniversityWaco · United States2003–2026 · 7 paperscurrent🎓University of California, IrvineIrvine · United States1984–2024 · 58 papers🎓University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherst Center · United States2008–2018 · 24 papersEmployment 2008–2012 · Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States2002–2010 · 9 papersEducation 2002–2010 · Ph.D., Computer Science🎓Tufts UniversityMedford · United States2001–2002 · 4 papers🔬Natural History MuseumLondon · United Kingdom2018–2022 · 2 papers🎓Johnson UniversityKnoxville · United States2018 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 8 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 4 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 4 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksGeneral Social Sciences · 1 workSocial Sciences · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 2 works

💡 Concepts 1Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.Topic modeling · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20212 papers

2000s

20091 paper20061 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Polylingual Topic Models (2009 · 418 citations)
    Topic models had so far been used mostly on single-language collections, or at most on language pairs. Existing bilingual variants were also built for machine translation and depended on sentence-aligned parallel text. Mimno et al. propose the polylingual topic model (PLTM), an extension of LDA. In PLTM, a "tuple" of…
  2. Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models (2006 · 219 citations)
    The paper tackles the mismatch between how NLP systems are evaluated (task metrics such as BLEU or labeled attachment accuracy) and how they are usually trained (maximum likelihood).
  3. Drivers of English Syntactic Change in the Canadian Parliament (2021 · 5 citations)
    The paper asks why the English of the Canadian House of Commons became more conversational over the twentieth century.
  4. Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries (2021 · 1 citation)
    The paper asks how English acquires new transitive verbs and tests two hypotheses on that question. The data is the British Hansard, two centuries of UK parliamentary debates, parsed automatically with Stanford CoreNLP. A rule layer on top of the dependency output labels each verb token as transitive (has a dobj)…

All works

6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Polylingual Topic ModelsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)David Mimno, Hanna M. Wallach, Jason Naradowsky, et al.2009 · 418 citations
  2. Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear ModelsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)David A. Smith, Jason Eisner2006 · 219 citations
  3. Parser Adaptation and Projection with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar Features ↗Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetDavid A. Smith, Jason Eisner2009 · 108 citations
  4. Detecting de minimis Code-Switching in Historical German Books ↗Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yetShijia Liu, David Smith2020 · 6 citations
  5. Drivers of English Syntactic Change in the Canadian ParliamentSociety for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)Liwen Hou, David A. Smith2021 · 5 citations
  6. Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two CenturiesSociety for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)Liwen Hou, David A. Smith2021 · 1 citation

 Co-authors here

6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 478 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 71 citing papers with a page here →.

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