--- title: "David Burkett — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "David Burkett, University of California, Berkeley: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2020), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-burkett/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-burkett/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David Burkett # David Burkett David Burkett has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2020, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Dan Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/), [Gerard de Melo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gerard-de-melo/), [Hao Fang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-fang/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5003197445) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5003197445) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003197445) · [467 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003197445&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-burkett/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 254 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-burkett/cited-by/) · [12 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6684](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/67/#star-6684) 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+Burkett) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+Burkett) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+Burkett) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+Burkett) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2008–2014 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-burkett/year/2020/) ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-burkett/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Task-Oriented Dialogue as Dataflow Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/andreas-2020-task-oriented-dialogue-as-dataflow/)** *(2020 · 121 citations)* Task-oriented dialogue systems often force a choice between rigid slot-filling states, which are easy to learn but limited, and opaque neural states, which are flexible but hard to train. 2. **[Structured Learning for Taxonomy Induction with Belief Propagation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bansal-2014-structured-learning-taxonomy-induction-belief/)** *(2014 · 84 citations)* The paper addresses automatic construction of hypernym taxonomies. Given a set of terms, the system must output a full tree in which each term is attached to its parent. Manually built resources such as WordNet have gaps in coverage and are expensive to extend. The authors frame the task as a log-linear factor graph… ## All works 14 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. **[Two Languages are Better than One (for Syntactic Parsing) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D08-1092/) Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**David Burkett, Dan Klein*2008 · 149 citations* 2. **[Task-Oriented Dialogue as Dataflow Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/andreas-2020-task-oriented-dialogue-as-dataflow/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Jacob Andreas, John Bufe, David Burkett, et al.*2020 · 121 citations* 3. **[Joint Parsing and Alignment with Weakly Synchronized Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N10-1015/) Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**David Burkett, John Blitzer, Dan Klein*2010 · 96 citations* 4. **[Structured Learning for Taxonomy Induction with Belief Propagation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bansal-2014-structured-learning-taxonomy-induction-belief/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mohit Bansal, David Burkett, Gerard de Melo, et al.*2014 · 84 citations* 5. **[Learning Better Monolingual Models with Unannotated Bilingual Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W10-2906/) Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning · no summary yet**David Burkett et al.*2010 · 56 citations* 6. **[Mention Detection: Heuristics for the OntoNotes annotations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W11-1916/) Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task · no summary yet**Jonathan K. Kummerfeld et al.*2011 · 21 citations* 7. **[Transforming Trees to Improve Syntactic Convergence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D12-1079/) Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning · no summary yet**David Burkett, Dan Klein*2012 · 17 citations* 8. **[Fast Inference in Phrase Extraction Models with Belief Propagation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N12-1004/) Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**David Burkett, Dan Klein*2012 · 15 citations* 9. **[Optimal Graph Search with Iterated Graph Cuts ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v25i1.7829) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**David Burkett, David Hall, Dan Klein*2011 · 7 citations* 10. **[Variational Inference for Structured NLP Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P13-5006/) Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Tutorials) · no summary yet**David Burkett, Dan Klein*2013 · 2 citations* 11. **[Parallel, Aligned CTB ↗](https://openalex.org/W7095846908) no summary yet**David Burkett et al.*2014* 12. **[Binary Factor Unary FactorVariables Yi Factors Cliques ↗](https://openalex.org/W7098009016) no summary yet**David Burkett et al.*2013* 13. **[Ternary Factor Variable Binary Factor Unary FactorNotation • Variables ↗](https://openalex.org/W7100792558) no summary yet**David Burkett et al.*2012* 14. **[Syntactic agreement in bilingual corpora ↗](https://openalex.org/W213376400) no summary yet**Dan Klein, David Burkett*2012* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dan Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) - [Gerard de Melo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gerard-de-melo/) - [Hao Fang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-fang/) - [Jacob Andreas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-andreas/) - [Jason Eisner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-eisner/) - [Mohit Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohit-bansal/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2014/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2020/) - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task - Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 254 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [37 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-burkett/cited-by/). 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