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Peter Sheridan Dodds

Peter Sheridan Dodds has 3 papers in our library, in 2011–2026, most of them on English, Machine translation, Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP; often with Christopher M. Danforth.

3 papers in our library · 2011–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 45 · 194 works · 15,682 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 6 citations in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Star rank #4889

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 Affiliations

🎓University of VermontBurlington · United States2006–2026 · 133 papersEmployment 2006–2010Employment 2010–2013Employment since 2011Employment 2013–2020current🔬Santa Fe InstituteSanta Fe · United States2003–2026 · 23 paperscurrent🤝Complexity Science HubVienna · Austria2026 · 2 paperscurrent🎓Columbia UniversityNew York · United States2002–2006 · 10 papersEmployment 2003–2006🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States1999–2001 · 6 papersEducation

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.

 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 10 Arts and Humanities · 3 works Language and Linguistics · 3 works Computer Science · 2 works Psychology · 1 work Artificial Intelligence · 2 works Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work Social Psychology · 1 work Social Sciences · 1 work Cultural Studies · 1 work Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work

🧭 Topics 5 English · 2 works Historical linguistics & language change · 1 work Machine translation · 1 work Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work Reasoning · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper

2010s

20151 paper20111 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Positivity of the English language (2011 · 121 citations)
    The paper asks whether English, taken as a whole, leans emotionally positive, negative or neutral. Earlier studies gave mixed answers, partly because they picked words in ways that could bias the outcome. The authors chose words only by how often they are used. The 5000 most frequent words were drawn from each of…
  2. Is language evolution grinding to a halt? The scaling of lexical turbulence in English fiction suggests it is not (2015 · 22 citations)
    The paper asks whether the English lexicon is still renewing itself. Earlier work by Petersen et al. reported that word births fell sharply and word deaths rose in the late 20th century. The authors re-examine that claim on the Google Books 2012 English Fiction corpus for 1800–2000. They chose this subset because…
  3. Translation-CoT: A Human-Inspired Chain-of-Thought Framework for Multilingual LLM Translation (2026)
    LLM-based machine translation still suffers from mistranslations, hallucinations and stilted output, and these problems are worst for low-resource languages.

All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Positivity of the English languageIsabel M. Kloumann; Christopher M. Danforth; Kameron Decker Harris; Catherine A. Bliss;, Peter Sheridan DoddsPLoS ONE · 121 citations
  2. Is language evolution grinding to a halt? The scaling of lexical turbulence in English fiction suggests it is notEitan Adam Pechenick, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan DoddsarXiv:1503.03512 · 22 citations
  3. More Data Types More Problems: A Temporal Analysis of Complexity, Stability, and Sensitivity in Privacy Policies (original ↗)Juniper Lovato et al.2023 · arXiv:2302.08936 · 4 citations · no summary yet
  4. Translation-CoT: A Human-Inspired Chain-of-Thought Framework for Multilingual LLM TranslationTabia Tanzin Prama, Juniper L Lovato, Chris Danforth, et al.Conference of the Association for Machine…
  5. Gender Disparities in LLM-Based Intimate Partner Violence Detection (original ↗)Tabia Tanzin Prama et al.2026 · Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Natural… · no summary yet

 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 6 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 1 citing paper with a page here →.

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