--- title: "Robert F. Simmons — author profile and papers · English" description: "Robert F. Simmons: 3 papers on Elamur Research (1975–1992), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-f-simmons/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-f-simmons/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Robert F. Simmons # Robert F. Simmons Robert F. Simmons has 3 papers in our library, in 1975–1992, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/); often with [Yeong-Ho Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yeong-ho-yu/). 3 papers in our library · 1975–1992 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5032849684) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5032849684) · [115 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032849684) · [1,616 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032849684&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-f-simmons/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 5 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7743](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7743) 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=Robert+F.+Simmons) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Robert+F.+Simmons) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Robert+F.+Simmons) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Robert+F.+Simmons) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 1970–1991 · 21 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) ## Works by year ### 1990s [**1992** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-f-simmons/year/1992/) · [**1991** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-f-simmons/year/1991/) ### 1970s [**1975** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-f-simmons/year/1975/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Acquisition and Use of Context-Dependent Grammars for English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simmons-1992-acquisition-use-context-dependent-grammars/)** *(1992 · 34 citations)* Simmons and Yu tackle the difficulty of building broad, unambiguous sentence grammars for English. Hand-written augmented context-free grammars are large, hard to maintain and prone to ambiguity. The authors propose a Context-Dependent Grammar (CDG). Each rule pairs a fixed window of parser state with an action: the… 2. **[The Acquisition and Application of Context Sensitive Grammar for English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simmons-1991-acquisition-application-context-sensitive-grammar/)** *(1991 · 11 citations)* The authors argue that hand-built augmented context-free grammars are complex and fragile. They propose a context-sensitive phrase structure grammar (CSG) that is learned from example parses of English news stories. Each parse is treated as a chain of shift/reduce states. A rule pairs a 10-symbol window (five stack… 3. **[Semantically Analyzing an English Subset for the Clowns Microworld](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simmons-1975-semantically-analyzing-english-subset-clowns/)** *(1975 · 7 citations)* CLOWNS is a microworld in which English sentences about a clown, a pedestal, a boat and a dock are turned into pictures. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yeong-Ho Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yeong-ho-yu/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) ×2: [Computational Linguistics 1992](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1992/), [Computational Linguistics 1975](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1975/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 1991](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1991/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 5 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). 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