--- title: "Andrew Hickl · Language Computer — author profile and papers" description: "Andrew Hickl, Language Computer: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2006–2007), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-hickl/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-hickl/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Andrew Hickl # Andrew Hickl Andrew Hickl has 3 papers in our library, in 2006–2007, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with [Jeremy Bensley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeremy-bensley/), [Sanda Harabagiu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanda-harabagiu/). 3 papers in our library · 2006–2007 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082774654) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082774654) · [38 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082774654) · [985 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082774654&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-hickl/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 89 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-hickl/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4826](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4826) 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=Andrew+Hickl) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Andrew+Hickl) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Andrew+Hickl) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Andrew+Hickl) ## Affiliations [🏢**Language Computer** Richardson · United States 2005–2021 · 19 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/language-computer/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2007** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-hickl/year/2007/) · [**2006** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-hickl/year/2006/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/harabagiu-2006-methods-textual-entailment-open-domain/)** *(2006 · 289 citations)* Harabagiu and Hickl ask whether a system built to recognize textual entailment (TE) can make open-domain question answering (Q/A) more accurate. 2. **[A Discourse Commitment-Based Framework for Recognizing Textual Entailment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hickl-2007-discourse-commitment-based-framework-recognizing/)** *(2007 · 103 citations)* Hickl and Bensley tackle Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE). They argue that shallow overlap or graph-alignment methods will break down as text–hypothesis pairs grow longer and more complex. Their alternative first spells out the discourse commitments of each passage: the propositions a conventional reading forces… 3. **[What in the world is a Shahab?: Wide Coverage Named Entity Recognition for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nezda-2006-what-world-is-shahab-wide/)** *(2006 · 13 citations)* The paper addresses the narrow coverage of most named entity recognizers. MUC-era systems handled up to 8 types and CoNLL systems only 4. Prior Arabic NER work was also very limited: TAGARAB covered 5 types on a small corpus. The authors built CiceroArabic, a supervised NER system for Modern Standard Arabic that… ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jeremy Bensley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeremy-bensley/) - [Sanda Harabagiu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanda-harabagiu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-pascal-workshop-on-textual-entailment-and-paraphrasing/): [ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing 2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-pascal-workshop-on-textual-entailment-and-paraphrasing/2007/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2006/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2006/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 89 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [23 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-hickl/cited-by/). 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