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title: "Martha E. Pollack — author profile and papers"
description: "Martha E. Pollack: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1988–1992), h-index 43 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library."
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# Martha E. Pollack

Martha E. Pollack has 2 papers in our library, in 1988–1992, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/).

2 papers in our library · 1988–1992

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109042638) · [**h-index 43**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109042638) · [171 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109042638) · [9,147 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109042638&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-e-pollack/#papers) · [64 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-e-pollack/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3470](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/35/#star-3470)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**University of Michigan** Ann Arbor · United States 2001–2014 · 53 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan/) · [🎓**University of Pittsburgh** Pittsburgh · United States 1992–2019 · 34 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pittsburgh/) · [🔬**SRI International** Menlo Park · United States 1986–1992 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1982–1985 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Topics

[Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/)

## Works by year

### 1990s

[**1992** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moore-1992-problem-rst-need-multi-level/)

### 1980s

[**1988** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pollack-1988-integrated-framework-semantic-pragmatic-interpretation/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[A Problem for RST: The Need for Multi-Level Discourse Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moore-1992-problem-rst-need-multi-level/)** *(1992 · 280 citations)* Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is widely used to structure multi-sentence output in natural language generation and in descriptive discourse work.
2. **[An Integrated Framework for Semantic and Pragmatic Interpretation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pollack-1988-integrated-framework-semantic-pragmatic-interpretation/)** *(1988 · 37 citations)* Purely compositional semantics struggles because an utterance's meaning depends on context as well as syntax.

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 64 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-e-pollack/cited-by/).