--- title: "Dan Moldovan — author profile and papers · Implicature" description: "Dan Moldovan, The University of Texas at Dallas: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2003–2012), h-index 43 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-moldovan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-moldovan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Dan Moldovan # Dan Moldovan Dan Moldovan has 2 papers in our library, in 2003–2012, most of them on [Implicature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Roxana Girju](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roxana-girju/). 2 papers in our library · 2003–2012 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5043094101) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2553-2081) · [**h-index 43**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5043094101) · [229 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043094101) · [7,066 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043094101&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-moldovan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 108 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-moldovan/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4173](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4173) 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=Dan+Moldovan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Dan+Moldovan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Dan+Moldovan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Dan+Moldovan) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Texas at Dallas** Richardson · United States 2001–2021 · 58 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-dallas/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1983–2002 · 45 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**Language Computer** Richardson · United States 2001–2008 · 26 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/language-computer/) · [🎓**Southern Methodist University** Dallas · United States 1993–2005 · 26 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southern-methodist-university/) · [🏢**Lymba** Richardson · United States 2008–2020 · 20 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/lymba/) · [🎓**University of Central Florida** Orlando · United States 1993 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-central-florida/) 🏛️**Google Inc** Mountain View · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) Employment [🎓**Technical University of Cluj-Napoca** Cluj-Napoca · Romania Education](https://ror.org/03r8nwp71) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 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).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Implicature · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2012** 1 paper A Tool for Extracting Conversational Implicatures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tatu-2012-tool-extracting-conversational-implicatures/) ### 2000s [**2003** 1 paper Learning Semantic Constraints for the Automatic Discovery of Part-Whole Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/girju-2003-learning-semantic-constraints-automatic-discovery/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Learning Semantic Constraints for the Automatic Discovery of Part-Whole Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/girju-2003-learning-semantic-constraints-automatic-discovery/)** *(2003 · 300 citations)* The paper tackles automatic detection of part-whole (meronymy) relations in English text. The most frequent surface patterns for this relation, such as genitives and "have"-type verbs, are highly ambiguous. The authors first gathered meronymic lexico-syntactic patterns semi-automatically. They took 100 WordNet… 2. **[A Tool for Extracting Conversational Implicatures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tatu-2012-tool-extracting-conversational-implicatures/)** *(2012 · 2 citations)* The paper addresses the gap between what a conversational turn literally says and what the speaker means: Grice's conversational implicatures. ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Learning Semantic Constraints for the Automatic Discovery of Part-Whole Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/girju-2003-learning-semantic-constraints-automatic-discovery/)**Roxana Girju, Adriana Badulescu, Dan Moldovan*[Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) · 300 citations* 2. **[A Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment](https://aclanthology.org/H05-1047/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical…**Marta Tatu, Dan Moldovan*2005 · 110 citations* 3. **[COGEX at RTE 3](https://aclanthology.org/W07-1404/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing**Marta Tatu, Dan Moldovan*2007 · 70 citations* 4. **[A Logic-Based Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment](https://aclanthology.org/P06-2105/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions**Marta Tatu, Dan Moldovan*2006 · 44 citations* 5. **[Multilingual eXtended WordNet Knowledge Base: Semantic Parsing and Translation of Glosses](https://aclanthology.org/L14-1671/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and…**Tatiana Erekhinskaya, Meghana Satpute, Dan Moldovan*2014 · 4 citations* 6. **[A Tool for Extracting Conversational Implicatures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tatu-2012-tool-extracting-conversational-implicatures/)**Marta Tatu, Dan Moldovan*[Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) · 2 citations* 7. **[Toward High Performance Machine Translation: Preliminary Results from Massively Parallel Memory-Based Translation on SNAP](https://aclanthology.org/1991.mtsummit-papers.15/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit III: Papers**Hiroaki Kitano, Dan Moldovan, Seungho Cha*1991 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Roxana Girju](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roxana-girju/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2012/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2003](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2003/) - Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and… - Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit III: Papers - Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual… - Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster… - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 108 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-moldovan/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026