--- title: "Atro Voutilainen — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Atro Voutilainen, University of Helsinki: 3 papers on Elamur Research (1993–1994), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atro-voutilainen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atro-voutilainen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Atro Voutilainen # Atro Voutilainen Atro Voutilainen has 3 papers in our library, in 1993–1994, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/), [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/). 3 papers in our library · 1993–1994 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5111477267) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5111477267) · [62 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111477267) · [1,284 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111477267&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atro-voutilainen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 11 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atro-voutilainen/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8275](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/83/#star-8275) 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=Atro+Voutilainen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Atro+Voutilainen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Atro+Voutilainen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Atro+Voutilainen) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Helsinki** Helsinki · Finland 1992–2018 · 26 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-helsinki/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) ## Works by year ### 1990s [**1994** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atro-voutilainen/year/1994/) · [**1993** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atro-voutilainen/year/1993/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[NPtool, a Detector of English Noun Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voutilainen-1993-nptool-detector-english-noun-phrases/)** *(1993 · 81 citations)* NPtool is a system that finds noun phrases in unrestricted English text. It is meant for index-term generation in information retrieval, for discovering translation units, and for corpus linguistics. It builds on the ENGCG pipeline, which works by reduction. First, every word receives all of its possible… 2. **[Three studies of grammar-based surface-syntactic parsing of unrestricted English text. A summary and orientation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voutilainen-1994-three-studies-grammar-based-surface/)** *(1994 · 1 citation)* The dissertation argues that a hand-written, rule-based grammar can tag unrestricted English as accurately as the statistical taggers of the time, if it is allowed to leave the hardest ambiguities pending. 3. **[A Noun Phrase Parser of English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voutilainen-1994-noun-phrase-parser-english/)** *(1993 · 1 citation)* Voutilainen presents a rule-based noun phrase parser for English, built in the Constraint Grammar framework (Karlsson 1990). ## All works 4 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. [**NPtool, a Detector of English Noun Phrases Very Large Corpora: Academic and Industrial Perspectives**Atro Voutilainen*1993 · 81 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voutilainen-1993-nptool-detector-english-noun-phrases/) 2. [**Three studies of grammar-based surface-syntactic parsing of unrestricted English text. A summary and orientation**Atro Voutilainen*English · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voutilainen-1994-three-studies-grammar-based-surface/) 3. **[A Noun Phrase Parser of English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voutilainen-1994-noun-phrase-parser-english/) [Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nodalida/)**Atro Voutilainen*1993 · 1 citation* 4. **[ii SPONSORS: The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) SIGDAT (ACL's SIG for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) INVITED SPEAKER: ↗](https://openalex.org/W7098636606) no summary yet**Nancy Ide et al.*1998* ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nodalida/): [NoDaLiDa 1993](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nodalida/1993/) - Very Large Corpora: Academic and Industrial Perspectives ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 11 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atro-voutilainen/cited-by/). 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