--- title: "John C. Platt — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "John C. Platt, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2011–2014), h-index 53 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-c-platt/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-c-platt/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / John C. Platt # John C. Platt John C. Platt has 2 papers in our library, in 2011–2014; often with [C. Lawrence Zitnick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/c-lawrence-zitnick/), [Christopher Meek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-meek/), [Geoffrey Zweig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/geoffrey-zweig/). 2 papers in our library · 2011–2014 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5073032636) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5652-5303) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88604121) · [**h-index 53**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5073032636) · [358 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073032636) · [49,985 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073032636&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-c-platt/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 240 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-c-platt/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1812](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/19/#star-1812) 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=John+C.+Platt) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=John+C.+Platt) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=John+C.+Platt) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=John+C.+Platt) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2015–2026 · 19 papersEmployment since 2015*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 1998–2021 · 60 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**California Institute of Technology** Pasadena · United States 1986–2023 · 11 papersEducation until 1989 · PhD, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/california-institute-of-technology/) · [🏢**Synaptics** San Jose · United States 1989–2003 · 10 papersEmployment 1989–1997 · Director, Research](https://ror.org/031tq8403) · [🎓**University of Michigan** Ann Arbor · United States 1969–1975 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan/) · [🏢**Texas Instruments** Dallas · United States 1996–2002 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/03vsmv677) · [🎓**Monash University** Melbourne · Australia 1986 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/monash-university/) 🏛️**Google LLC** Seattle · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2015Employment since 2015 · Google Fellow, Research 🏛️**Microsoft Research** Redmond · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 1997–2015Employment 1997–2015 · Deputy Director / Distinguished Scientist 🏛️**Microsoft Research** [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 1997–2015Employment 1997–2015 From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-c-platt/year/2014/) · [**2011** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-c-platt/year/2011/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[From Captions to Visual Concepts and Back](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fang-2014-captions-visual-concepts-back/)** *(2014 · 1,450 citations)* The paper tackles automatic image captioning. Its central idea is that every component of the system can be learned from caption-annotated images, with no separately hand-labeled object, attribute or relation data. The pipeline has three stages: 2. **[Learning Discriminative Projections for Text Similarity Measures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yih-2011-learning-discriminative-projections-text-similarity/)** *(2011 · 277 citations)* Classic vector-space similarity, such as cosine over TFIDF vectors, lets each term match only itself. Related words like synonyms therefore add nothing to the score, and across languages, where vocabularies barely overlap, the approach fails completely. Yih and colleagues propose S2Net (Similarity Learning via… ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [C. Lawrence Zitnick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/c-lawrence-zitnick/) - [Christopher Meek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-meek/) - [Geoffrey Zweig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/geoffrey-zweig/) - [Hao Fang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-fang/) - [Jianfeng Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianfeng-gao/) - [Kristina Toutanova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristina-toutanova/) - [Li Deng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-deng/) - [Margaret Mitchell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/margaret-mitchell/) - [Piotr Dollar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piotr-dollar/) - [Saurabh Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saurabh-gupta/) - [Wen-tau Yih](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-tau-yih/) - [Xiaodong He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaodong-he/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/): [CoNLL 2011](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2011/) - [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/): [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/2014/) - [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 240 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [40 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-c-platt/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026