🧑‍🔬 John C. Platt

🏛️ Affiliations

🏢GoogleMountain View · United States2015–2026 · 19 papersEmployment since 2015current🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States1998–2021 · 60 papers🎓California Institute of TechnologyPasadena · United States1986–2023 · 11 papersEducation until 1989 · PhD, Computer Science🏢SynapticsSan Jose · United States1989–2003 · 10 papersEmployment 1989–1997 · Director, Research🎓University of MichiganAnn Arbor · United States1969–1975 · 4 papers🏢Texas InstrumentsDallas · United States1996–2002 · 3 papers🎓Monash UniversityMelbourne · Australia1986 · 2 papers

🏛️Google LLCSeattle · United States2015Employment since 2015 · Google Fellow, Research

🏛️Microsoft ResearchRedmond · United States1997–2015Employment 1997–2015 · Deputy Director / Distinguished Scientist

🏛️Microsoft ResearchUnited States1997–2015Employment 1997–2015

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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.

📅 Works by year

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. From Captions to Visual Concepts and Back (2014 · 1,450 citations)
   The paper tackles automatic image captioning. Its central idea is that every component of the system can be learned from caption-annotated images, with no separately hand-labeled object, attribute or relation data. The pipeline has three stages:
2. Learning Discriminative Projections for Text Similarity Measures (2011 · 277 citations)
   Classic vector-space similarity, such as cosine over TFIDF vectors, lets each term match only itself. Related words like synonyms therefore add nothing to the score, and across languages, where vocabularies barely overlap, the approach fails completely. Yih and colleagues propose S2Net (Similarity Learning via…

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• C. Lawrence Zitnick
• Christopher Meek
• Geoffrey Zweig
• Hao Fang
• Jianfeng Gao
• Kristina Toutanova
• Li Deng
• Margaret Mitchell
• Piotr Dollar
• Saurabh Gupta
• Wen-tau Yih
• Xiaodong He

Venues

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

• Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL): CoNLL 2011
• IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2014
• Nature

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 240 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 40 citing papers with a page here →.

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