--- title: "Michael Yoder — author profile and papers · Speech act theory" description: "Michael Yoder, University of Pittsburgh: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-yoder/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-yoder/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Michael Yoder # Michael Yoder Michael Yoder has 2 papers in our library, in 2017, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Carolyn Penstein Rosé](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolyn-penstein-rose/), [Lori Levin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lori-levin/), [Shruti Rijhwani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shruti-rijhwani/). 2 papers in our library · 2017 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5048013263) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0489-3358) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131008741) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5048013263) · [24 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048013263) · [185 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048013263&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-yoder/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 6 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8821](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/89/#star-8821) 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=Michael+Yoder) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Michael+Yoder) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Michael+Yoder) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Michael+Yoder) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Pittsburgh** Pittsburgh · United States 2023–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pittsburgh/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2016–2025 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Communication · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/communication/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2017** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-yoder/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Code-Switching as a Social Act: The Case of Arabic Wikipedia Talk Pages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yoder-2017-code-switching-as-social-act/)** *(2017 · 13 citations)* The paper asks whether switching away from Arabic in Arabic Wikipedia discussions carries social meaning, and whether that meaning can be measured. 2. **[Modeling Dialogue Acts with Content Word Filtering and Speaker Preferences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jo-2017-modeling-dialogue-acts-content-word/)** *(2017 · 11 citations)* The paper tackles unsupervised recognition of dialogue acts (DAs) in conversations. The authors propose CSM, an HMM-based generative model with two main additions. First, it filters content words. Each conversation receives a slowly changing background topic, drawn from topics shared across the corpus, which absorbs… ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Carolyn Penstein Rosé](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolyn-penstein-rose/) ×2 - [Lori Levin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lori-levin/) - [Shruti Rijhwani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shruti-rijhwani/) - [Yohan Jo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yohan-jo/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2017/) - [Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-nlp-and-computational-social-science/): [Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-nlp-and-computational-social-science/2017/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 6 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). 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