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title: "David Bean — author profile and papers"
description: "David Bean: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1999–2004), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library."
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# David Bean

David Bean has 2 papers in our library, in 1999–2004, most of them on [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/); often with [Ellen Riloff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellen-riloff/).

2 papers in our library · 1999–2004

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5020683305) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5020683305) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020683305) · [146 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020683305&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bean/#papers) · [🔗 61 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bean/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3807](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/39/#star-3807)

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

## Topics

[Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/)

## Works by year

### 2000s

[**2004** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bean-2004-unsupervised-learning-contextual-role-knowledge/)

### 1990s

[**1999** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bean-1999-corpus-based-identification-non-anaphoric/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Unsupervised Learning of Contextual Role Knowledge for Coreference Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bean-2004-unsupervised-learning-contextual-role-knowledge/)** *(2004 · 118 citations)* The paper addresses coreference resolution, specifically choosing the right antecedent when an anaphor's own features, such as lexical match or agreement, are not enough.
2. **[Corpus-Based Identification of Non-Anaphoric Noun Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bean-1999-corpus-based-identification-non-anaphoric/)** *(1999 · 89 citations)* Coreference resolvers usually look for an antecedent for every definite noun phrase. Many such NPs, which the authors call "existential", need none: world knowledge or their own modifiers already make the referent clear, as with "the White House". Bean and Riloff build an automatic, corpus-driven filter that flags…

## Co-authors here

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

- [Ellen Riloff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellen-riloff/) ×2

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 61 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [27 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bean/cited-by/).