--- title: "Alistair Baron · Lancaster University — author profile and papers" description: "Alistair Baron, Lancaster University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2008–2018), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alistair-baron/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alistair-baron/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Alistair Baron # Alistair Baron Alistair Baron has 2 papers in our library, in 2008–2018, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Paul Rayson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-rayson/). 2 papers in our library · 2008–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029295644) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1224-4355) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029295644) · [57 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029295644) · [794 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029295644&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alistair-baron/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 22 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alistair-baron/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5655](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/57/#star-5655) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Alistair+Baron) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Alistair+Baron) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Alistair+Baron) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Alistair+Baron) ## Affiliations [🎓**Lancaster University** Lancaster · United Kingdom 2008–2023 · 17 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/lancaster-university/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper Alistair Baron's papers of 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dearden-2018-lancaster-semeval-2018-task-3/) ### 2000s [**2008** 1 paper Alistair Baron's papers of 2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baron-2008-vard2-tool-dealing-spelling-variation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[VARD 2: A tool for dealing with spelling variation in historical corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baron-2008-vard2-tool-dealing-spelling-variation/)** *(2008 · 22 citations)* Early Modern English has no standard spelling. One text can spell the same word in several ways, and modern taggers, frequency lists and concordances miss the variants. VARD 2 is a pre-processor. It marks each word that is not in a modern lexicon as a possible variant, and lists ranked modern candidates beside it… 2. **[Lancaster at SemEval-2018 Task 3: Investigating Ironic Features in English Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dearden-2018-lancaster-semeval-2018-task-3/)** *(2018 · 1 citation)* The paper describes Lancaster's entry to SemEval-2018 Task 3, which asks systems to label English tweets as ironic or not. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Paul Rayson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-rayson/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2018/) - Proceedings of the Postgraduate Conference in Corpus Linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham, 22 May 2008 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 22 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alistair-baron/cited-by/). 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