--- title: "Dominic Widdows — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Dominic Widdows: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2002–2003), h-index 26 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominic-widdows/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominic-widdows/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Dominic Widdows # Dominic Widdows Dominic Widdows has 2 papers in our library, in 2002–2003, most of them on [Idioms & multiword expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/); often with [Colin Bannard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-bannard/), [Takaaki Tanaka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takaaki-tanaka/), [Timothy Baldwin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-baldwin/). 2 papers in our library · 2002–2003 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051773175) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4241-0820) · [**h-index 26**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051773175) · [111 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051773175) · [2,910 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051773175&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominic-widdows/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 164 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominic-widdows/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2947](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2947) 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=Dominic+Widdows) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Dominic+Widdows) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Dominic+Widdows) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Dominic+Widdows) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2012–2016 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2002–2007 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**IonQ** College Park · United States 2022–2025 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/02ft1jb97) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2009–2011 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**MAYA Design** Pittsburgh · United States 2005–2006 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/0546qf840) 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. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 6 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/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Idioms & multiword expressions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2003** 1 paper Dominic Widdows's papers of 2003](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baldwin-2003-empirical-model-multiword-expression-decomposability/) · [**2002** 1 paper Dominic Widdows's papers of 2002](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/widdows-2002-graph-model-unsupervised-lexical-acquisition/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[An Empirical Model of Multiword Expression Decomposability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baldwin-2003-empirical-model-multiword-expression-decomposability/)** *(2003 · 319 citations)* The paper looks for a way to estimate how far a multiword expression's meaning derives from its parts. The goal is to separate "simple decomposable" MWEs (e.g. traffic light ) from idiosyncratically decomposable and non-decomposable ones (e.g. spill the beans , kick the bucket ). The authors build a latent semantic… 2. **[A Graph Model for Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/widdows-2002-graph-model-unsupervised-lexical-acquisition/)** *(2002 · 318 citations)* Hand-built lexicons such as WordNet have gaps in fast-moving domains, cover few languages besides English, and miss senses that matter in a given corpus. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Colin Bannard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-bannard/) - [Takaaki Tanaka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takaaki-tanaka/) - [Timothy Baldwin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-baldwin/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2002](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2002/) - Proceedings of the ACL 2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Analysis, Acquisition and Treatment ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 164 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominic-widdows/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026