--- title: "Richard Sproat — author profile and papers" description: "Richard Sproat, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1996–2005), h-index 46 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-sproat/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-sproat/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Richard Sproat # Richard Sproat Richard Sproat has 2 papers in our library, in 1996–2005, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Dan Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/), [William A. Gale](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-a-gale/). 2 papers in our library · 1996–2005 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5063612469) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9040-5196) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105038756) · [**h-index 46**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5063612469) · [277 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5063612469) · [8,805 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5063612469&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-sproat/#papers) · [🔗 360 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-sproat/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2780](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/28/#star-2780) 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=Richard+Sproat) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Richard+Sproat) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Richard+Sproat) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Richard+Sproat) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2009–2026 · 44 papersEmployment since 2012*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Sakana AI** Tokyo · Japan 2025–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://ror.org/027eejh88) · [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 1987–2017 · 37 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2003–2016 · 22 papersEmployment 2003–2009](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Oregon Health & Science University** Portland · United States 2009–2012 · 21 papers](https://ror.org/009avj582) · [🏢**Alcatel-Lucent** Boulogne-Billancourt · France 1996–2019 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/024850w61) · [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 1993 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1981–1986 · 2 papersEducation 1981–1985](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) 🏛️**Oregon Health and Science University - West Campus** [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2009–2012Employment 2009–2012 [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 1977–1981Education 1977–1981](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 1[Natural language processing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) 🧭 Topics 2[Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2005** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alm-2005-emotions-text-machine-learning-text/) ### 1990s [**1996** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sproat-1996-stochastic-finite-state-word-segmentation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sproat-1996-stochastic-finite-state-word-segmentation/)** *(1996 · 410 citations)* Written Chinese does not mark word boundaries with spaces, so any downstream system, such as text-to-speech, translation, or retrieval, must first recover words from strings of hanzi. 2. **[Emotions from Text: Machine Learning for Text-based Emotion Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alm-2005-emotions-text-machine-learning-text/)** *(2005 · 160 citations)* The paper addresses text-based emotion prediction (TEP): deciding which emotion, if any, a sentence conveys. ## Also in our library 6 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dan Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) - [William A. Gale](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-a-gale/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 360 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-sproat/cited-by/). Updated 23 October 2026