--- title: "Kamal Nigam — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kamal Nigam: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1998–2000), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamal-nigam/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamal-nigam/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kamal Nigam # Kamal Nigam Kamal Nigam has 2 papers in our library, in 1998–2000; often with [Andrew McCallum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-mccallum/), [Tom M. Mitchell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-m-mitchell/). 2 papers in our library · 1998–2000 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023964724) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023964724) · [37 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023964724) · [13,276 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023964724&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamal-nigam/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 277 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamal-nigam/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #579](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/6/#star-579) 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=Kamal+Nigam) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kamal+Nigam) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kamal+Nigam) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kamal+Nigam) ## Affiliations [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1998–2000 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🏢**Intel** Santa Clara · United States 2003–2006 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/intel/) 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/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Text classification · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/text-classification/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2000** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamal-nigam/year/2000/) ### 1990s [**1998** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamal-nigam/year/1998/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Comparison of Event Models for Naive Bayes Text Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccallum-1998-comparison-event-models-naive-bayes/)** *(1998 · 3,324 citations)* Two different probabilistic classifiers were both being called "naive Bayes" in text categorization research. 2. **[Text Classification from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents using EM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigam-2000-text-classification-labeled-unlabeled-em/)** *(2000 · 2,862 citations)* Labels for text classification are costly to produce, but unlabeled documents are usually cheap and plentiful. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andrew McCallum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-mccallum/) ×2 - [Tom M. Mitchell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-m-mitchell/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Machine Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/machine-learning/): [Machine Learning 2000](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/machine-learning/2000/) - AAAI-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 277 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [30 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamal-nigam/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026