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# Barbara J. Grosz

2 papers on this site · 1986–1995

current affiliation [Harvard University](https://ror.org/03vek6s52), Cambridge, United States

Barbara J. Grosz has 2 papers on this site, in 1986–1995, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with [Aravind K. Joshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aravind-k-joshi/).

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5015737731) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3031-5591) · [**h-index 43**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5015737731) · [252 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015737731) · [13 252 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015737731&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-j-grosz/#papers) · [756 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-j-grosz/cited-by/) · 3 more works in our library

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=Barbara+J.+Grosz) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Barbara+J.+Grosz) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Barbara+J.+Grosz) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Barbara+J.+Grosz)

## Affiliations

- [Harvard University](https://ror.org/03vek6s52) · Cambridge, United States —current · 1986–2026 on 115 papers
- [SRI International](https://ror.org/05s570m15) · Menlo Park, United States —1977–1987 on 17 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Topics

[Discourse analysis 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/grosz-1986-attention-intentions-structure-discourse/)** *(1986 · 2 923 citations)* Grosz and Sidner propose a computational account of how discourse is organized. It asks what makes a sequence of utterances one coherent discourse, and which earlier parts a new utterance must connect to. They argue that discourse structure has three interacting layers. The linguistic structure groups utterances into…
2. **[Centering: A Framework for Modeling the Local Coherence of Discourse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cl-1995-grosz-centering-framework-modeling-local-coherence/)** *(1995 · 2 101 citations)* The paper gives the definitive statement of centering, a model of the local attentional state inside one discourse segment.

## Also in our library

3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Aravind K. Joshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aravind-k-joshi/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 756 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [88 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barbara-j-grosz/cited-by/).