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David D. Palmer

David D. Palmer has 2 papers in our library, in 1994–1997, most of them on Tokenization & segmentation, Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP, English; often with Marti A. Hearst.

2 papers in our library · 1994–1997

OpenAlex · h-index 12 · 25 works · 674 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 51 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5116

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 Affiliations

🏢MitreBedford · United States1996–2001 · 11 papers🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley · United States1994 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Tokenization & segmentation · 2 worksMultilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 workEnglish · 1 work

 Works by year

1990s

19971 paper19941 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Adaptive Multilingual Sentence Boundary Disambiguation (1997 · 187 citations)
    Splitting text into sentences is a prerequisite for taggers, parsers and sentence aligners. However, periods, question marks and exclamation points are ambiguous: a period can end a sentence, mark an abbreviation or decimal, or do both at once. Rule-based tokenizers built from regular expressions and abbreviation…
  2. Adaptive Sentence Boundary Disambiguation (1994 · 91 citations)
    The authors decide whether a period, question mark or exclamation mark ends a sentence. Their method is trainable and does not use hand-made regular expressions. A lexicon gives the part-of-speech probabilities of the tokens around the punctuation mark, and a small neural network reads those probabilities over a…

 Co-authors here

1 co-author 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 51 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 13 citing papers with a page here →.

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