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# Mats Rooth

Mats Rooth has 2 papers in our library, in 1993–1999, most of them on [Lexical semantics & word embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/); often with [Donald Hindle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-hindle/), [Stefan Riezler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-riezler/).

2 papers in our library · 1993–1999

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5064858358) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-7548) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5064858358) · [75 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064858358) · [5,469 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064858358&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mats-rooth/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 370 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mats-rooth/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3863](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/39/#star-3863)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 2001–2025 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 1992–2015 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) · [🔬**Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 1997–2015 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institut-fur-mikroelektronik-stuttgart/)

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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Lexical semantics & word embeddings · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/)

💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Lexical semantics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/lexical-semantics/)

## Works by year

### 1990s

[**1999** 1 paper Mats Rooth's papers of 1999](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rooth-1999-inducing-semantically-annotated-lexicon-em/) · [**1993** 1 paper Mats Rooth's papers of 1993](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hindle-1993-structural-ambiguity-lexical-relations/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Inducing a Semantically Annotated Lexicon via EM-Based Clustering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rooth-1999-inducing-semantically-annotated-lexicon-em/)** *(1999 · 223 citations)* Most earlier work on learning selectional restrictions depends on a fixed semantic taxonomy such as an entailment hierarchy.
2. **[Structural Ambiguity and Lexical Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hindle-1993-structural-ambiguity-lexical-relations/)** *(1993 · 147 citations)* The authors take a classic case of structural ambiguity: where to attach a prepositional phrase that follows a verb and its object, to the verb or to the noun.

## All works

4 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. **[A theory of focus interpretation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02342617) Natural Language Semantics · no summary yet**Mats Rooth*1992 · 3,335 citations*
2. **[Inducing a Semantically Annotated Lexicon via EM-Based Clustering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rooth-1999-inducing-semantically-annotated-lexicon-em/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mats Rooth, Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher, et al.*1999 · 223 citations*
3. **[Structural Ambiguity and Lexical Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hindle-1993-structural-ambiguity-lexical-relations/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Donald Hindle, Mats Rooth*1993 · 147 citations*
4. **[Inside-Outside Estimation of a Lexicalized PCFG for German ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P99-1035/) Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Franz Beil et al.*1999 · 26 citations*

## Co-authors here

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

- [Donald Hindle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-hindle/)
- [Stefan Riezler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-riezler/)

## 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 1999](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1999/)
- [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 1993](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1993/)
- Natural Language Semantics

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 370 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [53 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mats-rooth/cited-by/).

Updated 24 October 2026
