--- title: "David D. Palmer — author profile and papers in our library" description: "David D. Palmer: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1994–1997), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-d-palmer/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-d-palmer/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David D. Palmer # David D. Palmer David D. Palmer has 2 papers in our library, in 1994–1997, most of them on [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Marti A. Hearst](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marti-a-hearst/). 2 papers in our library · 1994–1997 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5037867022) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5037867022) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037867022) · [674 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037867022&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-d-palmer/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 51 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-d-palmer/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5116](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5116) 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+D.+Palmer) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+D.+Palmer) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+D.+Palmer) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+D.+Palmer) ## Affiliations [🏢**Mitre** Bedford · United States 1996–2001 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/mitre/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 1994 · 2 papers](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. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Tokenization & segmentation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 1990s [**1997** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-d-palmer/year/1997/) · [**1994** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-d-palmer/year/1994/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Adaptive Multilingual Sentence Boundary Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/palmer-1997-adaptive-multilingual-sentence-boundary-disambiguation/)** *(1997 · 187 citations)* Splitting text into sentences is a prerequisite for taggers, parsers and sentence aligners. However, periods, question marks and exclamation points are ambiguous: a period can end a sentence, mark an abbreviation or decimal, or do both at once. Rule-based tokenizers built from regular expressions and abbreviation… 2. **[Adaptive Sentence Boundary Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/palmer-1994-adaptive-sentence-boundary-disambiguation/)** *(1994 · 91 citations)* The authors decide whether a period, question mark or exclamation mark ends a sentence. Their method is trainable and does not use hand-made regular expressions. A lexicon gives the part-of-speech probabilities of the tokens around the punctuation mark, and a small neural network reads those probabilities over a… ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Marti A. Hearst](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marti-a-hearst/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/anlp/): [ANLP 1994](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/anlp/1994/) - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 1997](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1997/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 51 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-d-palmer/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026