--- title: "David A. Smith — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "David A. Smith, Northeastern University: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2006–2021), h-index 36 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David A. Smith # David A. Smith David A. Smith has 4 papers in our library, in 2006–2021, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Liwen Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-hou/), [Andrew McCallum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-mccallum/), [David Mimno](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-mimno/). 4 papers in our library · 2006–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101722493) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6636-6940) · [**h-index 36**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101722493) · [245 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101722493) · [6,073 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101722493&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 478 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3318](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3318) 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=David+A.+Smith) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+A.+Smith) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+A.+Smith) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+A.+Smith) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2012–2026 · 36 papersEmployment since 2012 · Associate Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) · [🎓**Baylor University** Waco · United States 2003–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://ror.org/005781934) · [🎓**University of California, Irvine** Irvine · United States 1984–2024 · 58 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-irvine/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2008–2018 · 24 papersEmployment 2008–2012 · Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2002–2010 · 9 papersEducation 2002–2010 · Ph.D., Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**Tufts University** Medford · United States 2001–2002 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tufts-university/) · [🔬**Natural History Museum** London · United Kingdom 2018–2022 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/039zvsn29) · [🎓**Johnson University** Knoxville · United States 2018 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04dpnfr42) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 8 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Topic modeling · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/topic-modeling/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/year/2021/) ### 2000s [**2009** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/year/2009/) · [**2006** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/year/2006/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Polylingual Topic Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mimno-2009-polylingual-topic-models/)** *(2009 · 418 citations)* Topic models had so far been used mostly on single-language collections, or at most on language pairs. Existing bilingual variants were also built for machine translation and depended on sentence-aligned parallel text. Mimno et al. propose the polylingual topic model (PLTM), an extension of LDA. In PLTM, a "tuple" of… 2. **[Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2006-minimum-risk-annealing-training-log/)** *(2006 · 219 citations)* The paper tackles the mismatch between how NLP systems are evaluated (task metrics such as BLEU or labeled attachment accuracy) and how they are usually trained (maximum likelihood). 3. **[Drivers of English Syntactic Change in the Canadian Parliament](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2021-drivers-english-syntactic-change-canadian/)** *(2021 · 5 citations)* The paper asks why the English of the Canadian House of Commons became more conversational over the twentieth century. 4. **[Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2021-emerging-english-transitives-over-last/)** *(2021 · 1 citation)* The paper asks how English acquires new transitive verbs and tests two hypotheses on that question. The data is the British Hansard, two centuries of UK parliamentary debates, parsed automatically with Stanford CoreNLP. A rule layer on top of the dependency output labels each verb token as transitive (has a dobj)… ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Polylingual Topic Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mimno-2009-polylingual-topic-models/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**David Mimno, Hanna M. Wallach, Jason Naradowsky, et al.*2009 · 418 citations* 2. **[Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2006-minimum-risk-annealing-training-log/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**David A. Smith, Jason Eisner*2006 · 219 citations* 3. **[Parser Adaptation and Projection with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1086/) Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**David A. Smith, Jason Eisner*2009 · 108 citations* 4. **[Detecting de minimis Code-Switching in Historical German Books ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.163/) Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Shijia Liu, David Smith*2020 · 6 citations* 5. **[Drivers of English Syntactic Change in the Canadian Parliament](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2021-drivers-english-syntactic-change-canadian/) [Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/)**Liwen Hou, David A. Smith*2021 · 5 citations* 6. **[Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2021-emerging-english-transitives-over-last/) [Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/)**Liwen Hou, David A. Smith*2021 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Liwen Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-hou/) ×2 - [Andrew McCallum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-mccallum/) - [David Mimno](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-mimno/) - [Hanna Wallach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanna-wallach/) - [Jason Eisner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-eisner/) - [Jason Naradowsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-naradowsky/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×3: [EMNLP 2009](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2009/) - [Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/) ×2: [SCiL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/2021/) ×2 - [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/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) - [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/) - Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 478 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [71 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-a-smith/cited-by/). 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