--- title: "Jeff Bilmes — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Jeff Bilmes: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2006–2011), h-index 49 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-bilmes/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-bilmes/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jeff Bilmes # Jeff Bilmes Jeff Bilmes has 2 papers in our library, in 2006–2011, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Hui Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hui-lin/). 2 papers in our library · 2006–2011 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5113478221) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7372-8778) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130978654) · [**h-index 49**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5113478221) · [277 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113478221) · [10,939 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113478221&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-bilmes/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 168 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-bilmes/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3061](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/31/#star-3061) 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=Jeff+Bilmes) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jeff+Bilmes) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jeff+Bilmes) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jeff+Bilmes) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 1999–2025 · 199 papersEmployment since 1999 · Professor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🔬**International Computer Science Institute** Berkeley · United States 1989–2014 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/international-computer-science-institute/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 1997–2014 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Wisconsin–Madison** Madison · United States 2019–2020 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wisconsin-madison/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 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.[Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Text summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/text-summarization/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2011** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-bilmes/year/2011/) ### 2000s [**2006** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-bilmes/year/2006/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Class of Submodular Functions for Document Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2011-class-submodular-functions-document-summarization/)** *(2011 · 684 citations)* Lin and Bilmes treat extractive multi-document summarization, both generic and query-focused, as maximizing a monotone submodular set function under a length budget. Such functions have diminishing returns. A cheap greedy procedure therefore comes with a provable constant-factor bound relative to the optimal summary. 2. **[Backoff Model Training using Partially Observed Data: Application to Dialog Act Tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ji-2006-backoff-model-training-partially-observed/)** *(2006 · 37 citations)* The paper addresses dialog act (DA) tagging, where each sentence in a meeting gets a label such as statement, question, or back-channel. ## All works 8 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. **[A Class of Submodular Functions for Document Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2011-class-submodular-functions-document-summarization/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hui Lin, Jeff Bilmes*2011 · 684 citations* 2. **[Coresets for Data-efficient Training of Machine Learning Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01827) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Jeff Bilmes, Jure Leskovec*2019 · 89 citations* 3. **[Discriminative versus generative parameter and structure learning of Bayesian network classifiers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1102351.1102434) International Conference on Machine Learning · no summary yet**Franz Pernkopf, Jeff Bilmes*2005 · 68 citations* 4. **[Backoff Model Training using Partially Observed Data: Application to Dialog Act Tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ji-2006-backoff-model-training-partially-observed/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Gang Ji, Jeff Bilmes*2006 · 37 citations* 5. **[GRAPHICAL MODEL REPRESENTATIONS OF WORD LATTICES ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/slt.2006.326842) IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) · no summary yet**Gang Ji et al.*2006 · 5 citations* 6. **[OMNIGUARD: An Efficient Approach for AI Safety Moderation Across Languages and Modalities ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23856) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Verma, Sahil et al.*2025 · 4 citations* 7. **[MULTIGUARD: An Efficient Approach for AI Safety Moderation Across Languages and Modalities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.819/) Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Sahil Verma et al.*2025 · 3 citations* 8. **[Coresets for Accelerating Incremental Gradient Methods ↗](https://openalex.org/W2998036337) no summary yet**Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Jeff Bilmes, Jure Leskovec*2019* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hui Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hui-lin/) ## 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/): [ACL 2011](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2011/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2006/) - IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) - International Conference on Machine Learning - Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 168 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-bilmes/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026