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# John Irving Tait

John Irving Tait has 2 papers in our library, in 1985–1999, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Darren Pearce](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/darren-pearce/), [Guido Minnen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guido-minnen/), [John Carroll](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-carroll/).

2 papers in our library · 1985–1999

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5111977346) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5111977346) · [117 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111977346) · [1,356 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111977346&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-irving-tait/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 85 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-irving-tait/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6105](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/62/#star-6105)

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+Irving+Tait) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=John+Irving+Tait) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=John+Irving+Tait) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=John+Irving+Tait)

## Affiliations

[🎓**University of Sunderland** Sunderland · United Kingdom 1994–2010 · 47 papers](https://ror.org/04p55hr04) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1982–1984 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Swedish Institute of Space Physics** Kiruna · Sweden 2008–2009 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/043kppn11)

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 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/) · [Health Professions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/) · [Occupational Therapy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/occupational-therapy/)

🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Works by year

### 1990s

[**1999** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-irving-tait/year/1999/)

### 1980s

[**1985** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-irving-tait/year/1985/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Simplifying Text for Language-Impaired Readers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carroll-1999-simplifying-text-language-impaired-readers/)** *(1999 · 234 citations)* This short EACL'99 paper describes a prototype pipeline that makes English newspaper articles easier to read for people with aphasia, a language disorder usually caused by stroke or head injury.
2. **[An English Generator for a Case-Labelled Dependency Representation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tait-1985-english-generator-case-labelled-dependency/)** *(1985 · 2 citations)* Tait describes a program that turns Boguraev's case-labelled dependency structures, the meaning representation of a Cambridge analyser, back into English.

## Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Darren Pearce](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/darren-pearce/)
- [Guido Minnen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guido-minnen/)
- [John Carroll](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-carroll/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) ×2: [EACL 1999](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/1999/), [EACL 1985](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/1985/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 85 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-irving-tait/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026
