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# Bob Carpenter

Bob Carpenter has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2018; often with [Dirk Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-hovy/), [Jon Chamberlain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jon-chamberlain/), [Massimo Poesio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-poesio/).

2 papers in our library · 2014–2018

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102808840) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2433-9688) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102808840) · [48 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102808840) · [10,325 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102808840&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bob-carpenter/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 134 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bob-carpenter/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3872](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/39/#star-3872)

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

## Affiliations

[🤝**Flatiron Institute** New York · United States 2020–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://ror.org/00sekdz59) · [🏢**Flatiron Health** New York · United States 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://ror.org/0508h6p74) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1990–2018 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2014–2018 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🤝**Simons Foundation** New York · United States 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01cmst727)

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 9 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/statistics-probability-and-uncertainty/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [General Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/general-social-sciences/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2018** 1 paper Comparing Bayesian Models of Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paun-2018-comparing-bayesian-models-annotation/) · [**2014** 1 paper The Benefits of a Model of Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-2014-benefits-model-annotation/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[The Benefits of a Model of Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-2014-benefits-model-annotation/)** *(2014 · 238 citations)* Annotated corpora in computational linguistics are usually judged by whether a few trained annotators agree, measured by raw agreement or by chance-adjusted coefficients such as Cohen's κ or Krippendorff's α.
2. **[Comparing Bayesian Models of Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paun-2018-comparing-bayesian-models-annotation/)** *(2018 · 130 citations)* In NLP, crowdsourced labels are usually merged by majority vote and checked with chance-corrected agreement coefficients.

## Co-authors here

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

- [Dirk Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-hovy/)
- [Jon Chamberlain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jon-chamberlain/)
- [Massimo Poesio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-poesio/)
- [Rebecca Passonneau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-passonneau/)
- [Silviu Paun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/silviu-paun/)
- [Udo Kruschwitz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/udo-kruschwitz/)

## Venues

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

- [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/) ×2: [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2018/), [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2014/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 134 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bob-carpenter/cited-by/).

Updated 24 October 2026
