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# Lyle Ungar

2 papers on this site · 2017–2018

current affiliation [Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics](https://ror.org/033gy9j95), Philadelphia, United States; [University of Pennsylvania](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/), Philadelphia, United States

Lyle Ungar has 2 papers on this site, in 2017–2018, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [João Sedoc](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joao-sedoc/), [Muhammad Abdul-Mageed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-abdul-mageed/).

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5044944954) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2047-1443) · [**h-index 88**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5044944954) · [654 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044944954) · [31 278 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044944954&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lyle-ungar/#papers) · [341 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lyle-ungar/cited-by/) · 9 more works in our library

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

## Affiliations

- [University of Pennsylvania](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · Philadelphia, United States —current · 1986–2026 on 528 papers · employment (Wikidata)
- [Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics](https://ror.org/033gy9j95) · Philadelphia, United States —current · 2026 on 1 paper
- [Carnegie Mellon University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · Pittsburgh, United States —2023–2025 on 3 papers
- [Johns Hopkins University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · Baltimore, United States —2022–2025 on 2 papers
- [University of Chicago](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chicago/) · Chicago, United States —2024 on 2 papers
- [Stony Brook University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stony-brook-university/) · Stony Brook, United States —2016–2023 on 5 papers
- [University of Minnesota](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) · Minneapolis, United States —2021–2023 on 2 papers
- [University of Pennsylvania Health System](https://ror.org/04h81rw26) · Philadelphia, United States —2014–2022 on 19 papers
- [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · Cambridge, United States —1980–2020 on 9 papers · education (Wikidata)
- [Veterans Health Administration](https://ror.org/05eq41471) · Washington D.C., United States —2006–2020 on 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 40 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Topics

[Sentiment & emotion 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/buechel-2018-modeling-empathy-distress-reaction-news/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mageed-2017-emonet-fine-grained-emotion-detection/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[EmoNet: Fine-Grained Emotion Detection with Gated Recurrent Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mageed-2017-emonet-fine-grained-emotion-detection/)** *(2017 · 486 citations)* The paper tackles automatic emotion recognition in text, where progress has been held back by the lack of large labeled datasets.
2. **[Modeling Empathy and Distress in Reaction to News Stories](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/buechel-2018-modeling-empathy-distress-reaction-news/)** *(2018 · 181 citations)* The paper addresses text-based empathy prediction, which earlier work handled with private datasets, labels assigned by outside annotators, and a single, simplified notion of empathy.

## Also in our library

9 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

## Co-authors here

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

- [João Sedoc](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joao-sedoc/)
- [Muhammad Abdul-Mageed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-abdul-mageed/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 341 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lyle-ungar/cited-by/).
