🧑‍🔬 Thomas Norton

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Fordham UniversityNew York · United States2014–2026 · 27 papersEmploymentcurrent

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

🧭 Concepts, shelves and topics

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

📅 Works by year

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus (2016 · 336 citations)
   Website privacy policies are legally binding, yet most users neither read nor understand them, and regulators cannot review them at scale.
2. Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives (2019 · 163 citations)
   Privacy policies legally govern how apps handle personal data, but almost nobody reads them. This paper addresses that gap by framing policy comprehension as a question answering task. The authors build PrivacyQA, a corpus containing 1750 questions that ask about what 35 mobile apps state in their privacy policies…

All works

6 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. The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy CorpusAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Abhilash Dara, et al.2016 · 336 citations
2. Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal PerspectivesConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Abhilasha Ravichander, Alan W Black, Shomir Wilson, et al.2019 · 163 citations
3. Intent Classification and Slot Filling for Privacy PoliciesProceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yetWasi Ahmad et al.2021 · 38 citations
4. From Prescription to Description: Mapping the GDPR to a Privacy Policy Corpus Annotation SchemeJURIX 2020 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA) · original ↗ · no summary yetEllen Poplavska et al.2020 · 23 citations
5. A Tale of Two Regulatory Regimes: Creation and Analysis of a Bilingual Privacy Policy CorpusProceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · original ↗ · no summary yetSiddhant Arora et al.2022 · 7 citations
6. Creation and Analysis of an International Corpus of Privacy LawsProceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · original ↗ · no summary yetSonu Gupta et al.2024 · 6 citations

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Shomir Wilson ×2
• Abhilasha Ravichander
• Alan W Black
• Eduard Hovy
• Frederick Liu
• Norman Sadeh

Venues

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

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 2016
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): EMNLP 2019
• JURIX 2020 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA)
• Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
• Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
• Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 153 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 4 citing papers with a page here →.

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