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# Rebecca J. Passonneau

Rebecca J. Passonneau has 10 papers in our library, in 1995–2023, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with [Nancy Ide](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nancy-ide/), [Apoorv Agarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/apoorv-agarwal/), [Arzoo Katiyar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arzoo-katiyar/).

10 papers in our library · 1995–2023

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039621382) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8626-811X) · [**h-index 34**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039621382) · [241 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039621382) · [6,174 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039621382&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 10 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 802 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/cited-by/) · [17 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1170](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/12/#star-1170)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Pennsylvania State University** State College · United States 2016–2026 · 56 papersEmployment since 2016 · Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pennsylvania-state-university/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1991–2021 · 76 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🏢**Unisys** Blue Bell · United States 1987–2003 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/033ssdc55) · [🎓**Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University** Khobar · Saudi Arabia 2021 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03d64na34) · [🎓**Chinese University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · China 2015 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chinese-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 2001 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 10 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 10 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 10 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 10 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Decision Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/statistics-probability-and-uncertainty/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

🧭 Topics 8 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Implicature · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [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

### 2020s

[**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/year/2022/)

### 2010s

[**2014** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/year/2014/) · [**2011** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/year/2011/)

### 2000s

[**2008** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/year/2008/) · [**2006** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/year/2006/) · [**2001** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/year/2001/)

### 1990s

[**1997** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/year/1997/) · [**1995** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/year/1995/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2011-sentiment-analysis-twitter-data/)** *(2011 · 1,462 citations)* The paper addresses polarity classification of tweets in two settings: positive vs. negative, and a 3-way task that adds neutral. The authors use 11,875 tweets labelled by hand. A commercial provider collected them from the live Twitter stream without keyword filtering, so the sample is less biased than data gathered…
2. **[Discourse Segmentation by Human and Automated Means](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-1997-discourse-segmentation-human-automated-means/)** *(1997 · 275 citations)* Discourse research widely assumes that multi-utterance units (discourse segments) interact with linguistic form, yet there is little agreement on what such segments are or how to identify them.
3. **[The Benefits of a Model of Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-2014-benefits-model-annotation/)** *(2014 · 239 citations)* Annotated corpora in computational linguistics are usually judged by whether a few trained annotators agree, measured by raw agreement or by chance-adjusted coefficients such as Cohen's κ or Krippendorff's α.
4. **[CONTaiNER: Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition via Contrastive Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/das-2022-container-few-shot-named-entity/)** *(2022 · 234 citations)* The paper addresses named entity recognition when only a handful of labeled examples exist for each entity type in a new domain.
5. **[Measuring Agreement on Set-valued Items (MASI) for Semantic and Pragmatic Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-2006-measuring-agreement-set-valued-items/)** *(2006 · 223 citations)* Some annotation tasks ask annotators to build sets rather than pick labels from a fixed inventory. Examples are grouping coreferent NPs or collecting text spans that express the same content. Standard agreement coefficients count such sets as matches only when they are identical, so near-identical annotations look…
6. **[MASC: the Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus of American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ide-2008-masc-manually-annotated-sub-corpus/)** *(2008 · 119 citations)* Annotated corpora from different groups tend to be hard to reuse. Each one has its own formats and addressing schemes, and few cover more than a narrow range of genres or annotation layers. This paper describes the design and early work on MASC, a sub-corpus of public-domain American English drawn from the Open ANC…
7. **[DATE: A Dialogue Act Tagging Scheme for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/walker-2001-date-dialogue-act-tagging-scheme/)** *(2001 · 65 citations)* Standard logfile metrics for spoken dialogue systems, such as turn counts, latency and ASR accuracy, say little about what systems actually do in conversation.
8. **[Sociodemographic Bias in Language Models: A Survey and Forward Path](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gupta-2023-sociodemographic-bias-language-models-survey/)** *(2023 · 40 citations)* Language models tend to absorb social prejudices from their training corpora. When they behave unequally across demographic groups, they can cause real harm once deployed. Gupta et al. review roughly ten years of research on this sociodemographic bias. They ran keyword searches in the ACL Anthology, NeurIPS, FAccT…
9. **[Biber Redux: Reconsidering Dimensions of Variation in American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-2014-biber-redux-reconsidering-dimensions-variation/)** *(2014 · 28 citations)* Genre-aware models help parsing, speech recognition, translation and retrieval. However, most genre classifiers treat genres as separate bins. This paper re-tests Biber's 1988 claim that texts instead vary continuously along several dimensions. Biber found these dimensions by applying PCA to British English. The…
10. **[Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-1995-integrating-gricean-attentional-constraints/)** *(1995 · 17 citations)* The paper asks how speakers choose between a pronoun and a fuller noun phrase when they mention an entity again, and how a hearer resolves such mentions.

## All works

27 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 10 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2011-sentiment-analysis-twitter-data/) [Workshop on Language in Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-in-social-media/)**Apoorv Agarwal, Boyi Xie, Ilia Vovsha, et al.*2011 · 1,462 citations*
2. **[Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization: The Pyramid Method ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N04-1019/) Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004 · no summary yet**Ani Nenkova, Rebecca Passonneau*2004 · 756 citations*
3. **[Discourse Segmentation by Human and Automated Means](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-1997-discourse-segmentation-human-automated-means/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Rebecca J. Passonneau, Diane J. Litman*1997 · 275 citations*
4. **[Machine Learning for the New York City Power Grid ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2011.108) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · no summary yet**Cynthia D Rudin et al.*2011 · 263 citations*
5. **[The Benefits of a Model of Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-2014-benefits-model-annotation/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Rebecca J. Passonneau, Bob Carpenter*2014 · 239 citations*
6. **[CONTaiNER: Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition via Contrastive Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/das-2022-container-few-shot-named-entity/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Arzoo Katiyar, Rebecca Passonneau, et al.*2022 · 234 citations*
7. **[Measuring Agreement on Set-valued Items (MASI) for Semantic and Pragmatic Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-2006-measuring-agreement-set-valued-items/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Rebecca Passonneau*2006 · 223 citations*
8. **[MASC: the Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus of American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ide-2008-masc-manually-annotated-sub-corpus/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Nancy Ide, Collin Baker, Christiane Fellbaum, et al.*2008 · 119 citations*
9. **[DATE: A Dialogue Act Tagging Scheme for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/walker-2001-date-dialogue-act-tagging-scheme/) [Human Language Technology Conference (HLT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/hlt/)**Marilyn Walker, Rebecca Passonneau*2001 · 65 citations*
10. **[A process for predicting manhole events in Manhattan ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-009-5166-y) Machine Learning · no summary yet**Cynthia D Rudin et al.*2010 · 58 citations*
11. **[Nominalizations in PUNDIT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P87-1019/) 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Deborah A. Dahl, Martha S. Palmer, Rebecca J. Passonneau*1987 · 48 citations*
12. **[The KERNEL text understanding system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(93)90014-3) Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Martha Stone Palmer et al.*1993 · 45 citations*
13. **[Sociodemographic Bias in Language Models: A Survey and Forward Path](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gupta-2023-sociodemographic-bias-language-models-survey/) [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/)**Vipul Gupta, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Shomir Wilson, et al.*2023 · 40 citations*
14. **[Analytics for Power Grid Distribution Reliability in New York City ↗](https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2014.0748) INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics · no summary yet**Cynthia D Rudin et al.*2014 · 29 citations*
15. **[Biber Redux: Reconsidering Dimensions of Variation in American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-2014-biber-redux-reconsidering-dimensions-variation/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Rebecca J. Passonneau, Nancy Ide, Songqiao Su, et al.*2014 · 28 citations*
16. **[The PUNDIT natural-language processing system ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/aisig.1989.47330) no summary yet**Lynette Hirschman et al.*1989 · 27 citations*
17. [**Integrating Gricean and Attentional Constraints arXiv:cmp-lg/9505036**Rebecca J. Passonneau*1995 · 17 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/passonneau-1995-integrating-gricean-attentional-constraints/)
18. **[21st-Century Data Miners Meet 19th-Century Electrical Cables ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/mc.2011.164) Computer · no summary yet**Cynthia D Rudin et al.*2011 · 15 citations*
19. **[Integrating natural language processing and knowledge based processing ↗](https://openalex.org/W2168504477) no summary yet**Rebecca J. Passonneau et al.*1990 · 10 citations*
20. **[Reducing Noise in Labels and Features for a Real World Dataset: Application of NLP Corpus Annotation Methods ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00382-0_7) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Rebecca J. Passonneau et al.*2009 · 9 citations*
21. **[Building a Foundation System for Producing Short Answers to Factual Questions. ↗](https://openalex.org/W2404299085) no summary yet**Sameer Pradhan et al.*2002 · 8 citations*
22. **[Report Cards for Manholes: Eliciting Expert Feedback for a Learning Task ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/icmla.2009.72) International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications · no summary yet**Axinia Radeva et al.*2009 · 6 citations*
23. **[Progressive Clustering with Learned Seeds: An Event Categorization System for Power Grid. ↗](https://openalex.org/W2398576391) no summary yet**Boyi Xie et al.*2012 · 2 citations*
24. **[Treatment Effect of Repairs to an Electrical Grid Leveraging a Machine Learned Model of Structure Vulnerability ↗](https://openalex.org/W7097709634) no summary yet**Axinia Radeva et al.*2012 · 1 citation*
25. **[Report Cards for Manholes ↗](https://openalex.org/W7100252519) no summary yet**Axinia Radeva et al.*2015*

[See all 27 works by Rebecca J. Passonneau →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/works/)

## Co-authors here

12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Nancy Ide](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nancy-ide/) ×2
- [Apoorv Agarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/apoorv-agarwal/)
- [Arzoo Katiyar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arzoo-katiyar/)
- [Bob Carpenter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bob-carpenter/)
- [Charles J. Fillmore](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-j-fillmore/)
- [Christiane Fellbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christiane-fellbaum/)
- [Collin F. Baker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/collin-f-baker/)
- [Diane Litman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diane-litman/)
- [Marilyn Walker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marilyn-walker/)
- [Owen Rambow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/owen-rambow/)
- [Pranav Narayanan Venkit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranav-narayanan-venkit/)
- [Rui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-zhang/)

## 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 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2022/)
- [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×2: [LREC 2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2008/), [LREC 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2006/)
- [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 1997](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1997/)
- [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2014/)
- [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/): [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/2023/)
- [Human Language Technology Conference (HLT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/hlt/): [HLT 2001](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/hlt/2001/)
- [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2014/)
- [Workshop on Language in Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-in-social-media/): [Workshop on Language in Social Media 2011](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-in-social-media/2011/)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 802 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [98 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rebecca-j-passonneau/cited-by/).

Updated 30 October 2026