--- title: "Kathy McKeown — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Kathy McKeown, Columbia University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2017), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathy-mckeown/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathy-mckeown/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kathy McKeown # Kathy McKeown Kathy McKeown has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2017; often with [Christopher Hidey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-hidey/), [Alyssa Hwang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alyssa-hwang/), [Elena Musi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elena-musi/). 2 papers in our library · 2016–2017 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5002555329) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5002555329) · [28 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002555329) · [977 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002555329&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathy-mckeown/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 129 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathy-mckeown/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4129](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4129) 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=Kathy+McKeown) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kathy+McKeown) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kathy+McKeown) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kathy+McKeown) ## Affiliations [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2004–2020 · 21 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Philosophy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/philosophy/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper Analyzing the Semantic Types of Claims and Premises in an Online Persuasive Forum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hidey-2017-analyzing-semantic-types-claims-premises/) · [**2016** 1 paper Identifying Causal Relations Using Parallel Wikipedia Articles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hidey-2016-identifying-causal-relations-parallel-wikipedia/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Analyzing the Semantic Types of Claims and Premises in an Online Persuasive Forum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hidey-2017-analyzing-semantic-types-claims-premises/)** *(2017 · 166 citations)* The paper tackles a gap in argument mining. Most persuasion research has studied discourse-level signals such as connectives, hedges and argument structure, but the conceptual content of arguments has received little attention, largely because annotated data is missing. The authors build such data from the Change My… 2. **[Identifying Causal Relations Using Parallel Wikipedia Articles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hidey-2016-identifying-causal-relations-parallel-wikipedia/)** *(2016 · 149 citations)* The paper tackles automatic detection of causality in text, focusing on AltLexes: open-class phrases like "prompting" or "thanks to" that signal causal links. ## All works 5 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. **[Analyzing the Semantic Types of Claims and Premises in an Online Persuasive Forum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hidey-2017-analyzing-semantic-types-claims-premises/) [Workshop on Argument Mining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/argmining/)**Christopher Hidey, Elena Musi, Alyssa Hwang, et al.*2017 · 166 citations* 2. **[Identifying Causal Relations Using Parallel Wikipedia Articles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hidey-2016-identifying-causal-relations-parallel-wikipedia/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Christopher Hidey, Kathy McKeown*2016 · 149 citations* 3. **[Annotating Targets of Opinions in Arabic using Crowdsourcing](https://aclanthology.org/W15-3210/) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yet**Noura Farra, Kathy McKeown, Nizar Habash*2015 · 31 citations* 4. **[Neural Network Alignment for Sentential Paraphrases](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1467/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · original ↗ · no summary yet**Jessica Ouyang, Kathy McKeown*2019 · 23 citations* 5. **[SMARTies: Sentiment Models for Arabic Target entities](https://aclanthology.org/E17-1094/) Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers · original ↗ · no summary yet**Noura Farra, Kathy McKeown*2017 · 15 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Christopher Hidey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-hidey/) ×2 - [Alyssa Hwang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alyssa-hwang/) - [Elena Musi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elena-musi/) - [Smaranda Muresan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/smaranda-muresan/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2016/) - [Workshop on Argument Mining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/argmining/): [Workshop on Argument Mining 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/argmining/2017/) - Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers - Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 129 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathy-mckeown/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026