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Robert Mercer

Robert Mercer has 2 papers in our library, in 1993–2014, most of them on Speech act theory; often with David M. Magerman, Ezra Black, Fred Jelinek.

2 papers in our library · 1993–2014

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 20 · 149 works · 1,453 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 77 times in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4556

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 Affiliations

🎓Western UniversityLondon · Canada1987–2026 · 121 paperscurrent🎓University of WaterlooWaterloo · Canada2019–2020 · 4 papers🔬Vector InstituteToronto · Canada2022–2023 · 3 papers

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 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 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Speech act theory · 1 work

 Works by year

2010s

20141 paperExtracting Imperatives from Wikipedia Article for Deletion Discussions

1990s

19931 paperTowards History-based Grammars: Using Richer Models for Probabilistic Parsing

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Towards History-based Grammars: Using Richer Models for Probabilistic Parsing (1993 · 211 citations)
    The paper addresses structural ambiguity in parsing. Earlier probabilistic models, such as the standard P-CFG, condition each rule choice on very little context. The authors propose History-based Grammars (HBG), a generative model in which the probability of expanding each node may depend on anything already built in…
  2. Extracting Imperatives from Wikipedia Article for Deletion Discussions (2014 · 12 citations)
    Wikipedia editors decide the fate of contested articles in open "Article for Deletion" (AfD) discussions, where many comments push back against other participants.

All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Towards History-based Grammars: Using Richer Models for Probabilistic ParsingEzra Black, Fred Jelinek, John Lafrerty, et al.Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 211 citations
  2. Extracting Imperatives from Wikipedia Article for Deletion DiscussionsFiona Mao, Robert Mercer, Lu XiaoWorkshop on Argumentation Mining · 12 citations
  3. Presuppositions and Default Reasoning: A Study in Lexical Pragmatics · original ↗ · no summary yet · Lexical Semantics and Knowledge RepresentationMercer, Robert E.1991 · 7 citations
  4. Solving Some Persistent Presupposition Problems · original ↗ · no summary yet · Coling Budapest 1988 Volume 2: International Conference on Computational…Mercer, Robert E.1988 · 7 citations

 Co-authors here

5 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 77 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 15 citing papers with a page here →.

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