--- title: "Pedro Szekely — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Pedro Szekely, University of Southern California: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021), h-index 37 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pedro-szekely/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pedro-szekely/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Pedro Szekely # Pedro Szekely Pedro Szekely has 2 papers in our library, in 2021, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Filip Ilievski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/filip-ilievski/), [Alessandro Oltramari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-oltramari/), [Bin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bin-zhang/). 2 papers in our library · 2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5068184256) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4621-2266) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100104271) · [**h-index 37**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5068184256) · [277 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068184256) · [5,009 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068184256&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pedro-szekely/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 126 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pedro-szekely/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6364](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/64/#star-6364) 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=Pedro+Szekely) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Pedro+Szekely) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Pedro+Szekely) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Pedro+Szekely) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1988–2024 · 131 papersEmployment 1988–2022*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2022–2024 · 2 papersEmployment since 2022*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1980–2014 · 9 papersEducation 1980–1987](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Universidad de Los Andes** Bogotá · Colombia Education](https://ror.org/02mhbdp94) 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 4 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/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pedro-szekely/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Representing Numbers in NLP: a Survey and a Vision](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thawani-2021-representing-numbers-nlp-survey-vision/)** *(2021 · 139 citations)* This survey addresses a gap in NLP: most systems handle numbers poorly. They either drop numbers during preprocessing, collapse them into UNK tokens, or let BPE/WordPiece break them into arbitrary pieces. Neuroscience, by contrast, suggests the brain processes quantities differently from words. The authors propose… 2. **[Dimensions of Commonsense Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ilievski-2021-dimensions-commonsense-knowledge/)** *(2021 · 94 citations)* Commonsense knowledge is spread across many resources, such as ConceptNet, ATOMIC, WordNet, Wikidata and Visual Genome. ## All works 6 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. **[Representing Numbers in NLP: a Survey and a Vision](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thawani-2021-representing-numbers-nlp-survey-vision/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Avijit Thawani, Jay Pujara, Filip Ilievski, et al.*2021 · 139 citations* 2. **[Connecting the Dots: A Knowledgeable Path Generator for Commonsense Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.369/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 · no summary yet**Peifeng Wang et al.*2020 · 104 citations* 3. [**Dimensions of Commonsense Knowledge arXiv:2101.04640 (Knowledge-Based Systems 2021)**Filip Ilievski, Alessandro Oltramari, Kaixin Ma, et al.*2021 · 94 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ilievski-2021-dimensions-commonsense-knowledge/) 4. **[Knowledge Graphs for Social Good: An Entity-Centric Search Engine for the Human Trafficking Domain ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/tbdata.2017.2763164) IEEE Transactions on Big Data · no summary yet**Mayank Kejriwal, Pedro A. Szekely*2017 · 57 citations* 5. **[SAGE: A Hybrid Geopolitical Event Forecasting System ↗](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/955) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Fred Morstatter et al.*2019 · 24 citations* 6. **[Hybrid forecasting of geopolitical events† ↗](https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12085) AI Magazine · no summary yet**Daniel M. Benjamin et al.*2023 · 18 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Filip Ilievski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/filip-ilievski/) ×2 - [Alessandro Oltramari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-oltramari/) - [Bin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bin-zhang/) - [Deborah L. McGuinness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deborah-l-mcguinness/) - [Jay Pujara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-pujara/) - [Kaixin Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaixin-ma/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2021/) - AI Magazine - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 - IEEE Transactions on Big Data - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 126 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [21 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pedro-szekely/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026