--- title: "Rodney Nielsen — author profile and papers" description: "Rodney Nielsen, University of North Texas: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2010–2016), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-nielsen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-nielsen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Rodney Nielsen # Rodney Nielsen Rodney Nielsen has 3 papers in our library, in 2010–2016, most of them on [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/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Claudia Leacock](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-leacock/), [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/). 3 papers in our library · 2010–2016 [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 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-nielsen/#papers) · [🔗 150 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-nielsen/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3299](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/33/#star-3299) 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+Nielsen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rodney+Nielsen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rodney+Nielsen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rodney+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. ## Topics [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khanpour-2016-dialogue-act-classification-domain-independent/) · [**2013** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dzikovska-2013-semeval-2013-task-7-joint/) · [**2010** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hwang-2010-domain-independent-semantics-enhancing-semantic/) ## 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. **[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 · 7 citations)* The authors test whether ideas from Construction Grammar (CxG) can help improve the understanding of unfamiliar predicates. ## Also in our library 4 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Claudia Leacock](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-leacock/) - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 150 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodney-nielsen/cited-by/).