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# Rodney D. Nielsen

Rodney D. Nielsen has 5 papers in our library, in 2010–2018, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [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/); often with [Natalie Parde](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalie-parde/), [Chris Brew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-brew/), [Claudia Leacock](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-leacock/).

5 papers in our library · 2010–2018

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5089984025) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5089984025) · [84 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089984025) · [1,306 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089984025&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-d-nielsen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 180 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-d-nielsen/cited-by/) · [9 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4293](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/43/#star-4293)

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=Rodney+D.+Nielsen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rodney+D.+Nielsen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rodney+D.+Nielsen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rodney+D.+Nielsen)

## Affiliations

[🎓**University of North Texas** Denton · United States 2013–2023 · 48 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-texas/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 2004–2013 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🏢**Boulder Language Technologies** Boulder · United States 2008–2009 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/boulder-language-technologies/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

## 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 · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [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/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/)

💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Construction grammar · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/construction-grammar/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2018** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-d-nielsen/year/2018/) · [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-d-nielsen/year/2016/) · [**2013** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-d-nielsen/year/2013/) · [**2010** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-d-nielsen/year/2010/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[SemEval-2013 Task 7: The Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dzikovska-2013-semeval-2013-task-7-joint/)** *(2013 · 235 citations)* The paper reports on a SemEval-2013 shared task that joined educational NLP with the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) series.
2. **[Dialogue Act Classification in Domain-Independent Conversations Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khanpour-2016-dialogue-act-classification-domain-independent/)** *(2016 · 134 citations)* The paper tackles dialogue act (DA) classification in open-domain, spontaneous conversation, where each utterance must be assigned a label that captures its communicative function.
3. **[Detecting Sarcasm is Extremely Easy ;-)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parde-2018-detecting-sarcasm-is-extremely-easy/)** *(2018 · 24 citations)* Parde and Nielsen examine how a sarcasm classifier built to work across domains behaves on two very different kinds of text: short tweets and long Amazon product reviews.
4. **[Towards a Domain Independent Semantics: Enhancing Semantic Representation with Construction Grammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hwang-2010-domain-independent-semantics-enhancing-semantic/)** *(2010 · 17 citations)* The authors test whether ideas from Construction Grammar (CxG) can help improve the understanding of unfamiliar predicates.
5. **[#SarcasmDetection is soooo general! Towards a Domain-Independent Approach for Detecting Sarcasm](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parde-2018-sarcasmdetection-soooo-general-towards-domain/)** *(2018)* Sarcasm detectors are usually tuned to a single source, most often Twitter, and they tend to fail when moved to text with different conventions.

## All works

14 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 5 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[SemEval-2013 Task 7: The Joint Student Response Analysis and 8th Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dzikovska-2013-semeval-2013-task-7-joint/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Myroslava Dzikovska, Rodney Nielsen, Chris Brew, et al.*2013 · 235 citations*
2. **[Dialogue Act Classification in Domain-Independent Conversations Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khanpour-2016-dialogue-act-classification-domain-independent/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Hamed Khanpour, Nishitha Guntakandla, Rodney Nielsen*2016 · 134 citations*
3. **[The MiPACQ clinical question answering system. ↗](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/3243235) PubMed · no summary yet**Brian L Cairns et al.*2011 · 79 citations*
4. **[Annotating Students' Understanding of Science Concepts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1166/) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) · no summary yet**Rodney D. Nielsen et al.*2008 · 47 citations*
5. **[ZeroShotDataAug: Generating and Augmenting Training Data with ChatGPT ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14334) arXiv:2304.14334 · no summary yet**Solomon Ubani, Suleyman Olcay Polat, Rodney Nielsen*2023 · 43 citations*
6. **[Detecting Sarcasm is Extremely Easy ;-)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parde-2018-detecting-sarcasm-is-extremely-easy/) [Workshop on Computational Semantics beyond Events and Roles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-semantics-beyond-events-and-roles/)**Natalie Parde, Rodney Nielsen*2018 · 24 citations*
7. **[To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W10-1808/) Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop · no summary yet**Dmitriy Dligach, Rodney Nielsen, Martha Palmer*2010 · 24 citations*
8. [**Towards a Domain Independent Semantics: Enhancing Semantic Representation with Construction Grammar Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in Computational Linguistics**Jena D. Hwang, Rodney D. Nielsen, Martha Palmer*2010 · 17 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hwang-2010-domain-independent-semantics-enhancing-semantic/)
9. **[An architecture for complex clinical question answering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1882992.1883050) no summary yet**Rodney D. Nielsen et al.*2010 · 16 citations*
10. **[Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P08-2061/) Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers · no summary yet**Rodney D. Nielsen et al.*2008 · 9 citations*
11. **[Detecting Human Rights Violations on Social Media during Russia-Ukraine War ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05370) arXiv:2306.05370 · no summary yet**Poli Nemkova et al.*2023 · 6 citations*
12. **[Semantic Integration in Learning from Text. ↗](https://openalex.org/W2405021542) no summary yet**Steven J. Bethard et al.*2007 · 5 citations*
13. **[On the Road to Conventionalization: Analyses of Nominal Coercion ↗](https://openalex.org/W2904070159) no summary yet**Rodney D. Nielsen et al.*2009 · 1 citation*
14. [**#SarcasmDetection is soooo general! Towards a Domain-Independent Approach for Detecting Sarcasm arXiv:1806.03369**Natalie Parde, Rodney D. Nielsen*2018*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parde-2018-sarcasmdetection-soooo-general-towards-domain/)

## Co-authors here

11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Natalie Parde](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalie-parde/) ×2
- [Chris Brew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-brew/)
- [Claudia Leacock](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-leacock/)
- [Danilo Giampiccolo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danilo-giampiccolo/)
- [Hamed Khanpour](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamed-khanpour/)
- [Hoa Trang Dang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hoa-trang-dang/)
- [Ido Dagan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ido-dagan/)
- [Jena D. Hwang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jena-d-hwang/)
- [Luisa Bentivogli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luisa-bentivogli/)
- [Martha Palmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-palmer/)
- [Peter Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-clark/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2016/)
- [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/): [*SEM 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2013/)
- [Workshop on Computational Semantics beyond Events and Roles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-semantics-beyond-events-and-roles/): [Workshop on Computational Semantics beyond Events and Roles 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-semantics-beyond-events-and-roles/2018/)
- Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers
- Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
- Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in Computational Linguistics
- Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
- PubMed

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 180 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [38 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-d-nielsen/cited-by/).

Updated 30 October 2026