--- title: "Ronald M. Kaplan — author profile and papers" description: "Ronald M. Kaplan: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1989–2002), h-index 30 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronald-m-kaplan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronald-m-kaplan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ronald M. Kaplan # Ronald M. Kaplan Ronald M. Kaplan has 2 papers in our library, in 1989–2002, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/); often with [Annie Zaenen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annie-zaenen/), [Mark Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/), [Stefan Riezler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-riezler/). 2 papers in our library · 1989–2002 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5113912213) · [**h-index 30**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5113912213) · [73 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113912213) · [4,344 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113912213&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronald-m-kaplan/#papers) · [🔗 188 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronald-m-kaplan/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2913](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2913) 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=Ronald+M.+Kaplan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ronald+M.+Kaplan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ronald+M.+Kaplan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ronald+M.+Kaplan) ## Affiliations [🔬**Palo Alto Research Center** Palo Alto · United States 1977–2006 · 26 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/palo-alto-research-center/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 1992–2023 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**Nuance Communications** Burlington · United States 2012–2016 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/nuance-communications-united-states/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 1972–1973 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) 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. ## Topics [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2002** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/riezler-2002-parsing-wall-street-journal-lexical/) ### 1980s [**1989** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kaplan-1989-translation-structural-correspondences/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/riezler-2002-parsing-wall-street-journal-lexical/)** *(2002 · 396 citations)* The paper scales a stochastic parser built on a hand-written, linguistically detailed grammar up to the UPenn Wall Street Journal (WSJ) treebank. 2. **[Translation by Structural Correspondences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kaplan-1989-translation-structural-correspondences/)** *(1989 · 122 citations)* The paper proposes machine translation without a transfer program. The source and target sentences are described by LFG structures at several levels (constituent, functional, semantic), and the translation is a set of correspondence functions between those structures. The functions are written as equations, so the… ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Annie Zaenen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annie-zaenen/) - [Mark Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/) - [Stefan Riezler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-riezler/) - [Tracy Holloway King](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tracy-holloway-king/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 188 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [21 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronald-m-kaplan/cited-by/).