--- title: "Matthijs Westera · Leiden University — author profile and papers" description: "Matthijs Westera, Leiden University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthijs-westera/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthijs-westera/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Matthijs Westera # Matthijs Westera Matthijs Westera has 3 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Laia Mayol](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laia-mayol/), [Hannah Rohde](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannah-rohde/). 3 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5066968362) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7777-1864) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5066968362) · [53 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066968362) · [655 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066968362&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthijs-westera/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 18 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthijs-westera/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5538](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/56/#star-5538) 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=Matthijs+Westera) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Matthijs+Westera) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Matthijs+Westera) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Matthijs+Westera) ## Affiliations [🎓**Leiden University** Leiden · Netherlands 2020–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/leiden-university/) · [🎓**Universitat Pompeu Fabra** Barcelona · Spain 2017–2020 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-pompeu-fabra/) · [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2012–2015 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🎓**Utrecht University** Utrecht · Netherlands 2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/utrecht-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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper ToneSwiper: Facilitating Manual ToDI-annotation of Dutch Prosody](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/westera-2026-toneswiper-facilitating-manual-todi-annotation/) · [**2020** 2 papers Matthijs Westera's papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthijs-westera/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[TED-Q: TED Talks and the Questions they Evoke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/westera-2020-ted-q-ted-talks-questions/)** *(2020 · 29 citations)* Most of the questions that organise a discourse, the Questions Under Discussion (QUDs), are never stated outright. 2. **[Similarity or deeper understanding? Analyzing the TED-Q dataset of evoked questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/westera-2020-similarity-or-deeper-understanding-analyzing/)** *(2020 · 2 citations)* The paper asks whether TED-Q, a crowdsourced collection of questions that TED talks implicitly raise in listeners, captures real discourse interpretation or only surface association between a text and its follow-up questions. 3. **[ToneSwiper: Facilitating Manual ToDI-annotation of Dutch Prosody](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/westera-2026-toneswiper-facilitating-manual-todi-annotation/)** *(2026)* Expert manual intonation labeling is still needed to study how prosody is structured and what it means, and to train and evaluate automatic prosody labelers. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[TED-Q: TED Talks and the Questions they Evoke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/westera-2020-ted-q-ted-talks-questions/)**Matthijs Westera, Laia Mayol, Hannah Rohde*[Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) · 29 citations* 2. **[Attentional Pragmatics: A new pragmatic approach to exhaustivity](https://doi.org/10.3765/sp.15.10) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Semantics and Pragmatics**Westera, Matthijs*2022 · 3 citations* 3. **[Similarity or deeper understanding? Analyzing the TED-Q dataset of evoked questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/westera-2020-similarity-or-deeper-understanding-analyzing/)**Matthijs Westera, Jacopo Amidei, Laia Mayol*[International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/) · 2 citations* 4. **[ToneSwiper: Facilitating Manual ToDI-annotation of Dutch Prosody](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/westera-2026-toneswiper-facilitating-manual-todi-annotation/)**Matthijs Westera, Ariëlle Reitsema*[Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Laia Mayol](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laia-mayol/) ×2 - [Hannah Rohde](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannah-rohde/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×2: [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/), [LREC 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2020/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2020/) - Semantics and Pragmatics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 18 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthijs-westera/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026