--- title: "Shomir Wilson — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Shomir Wilson, Pennsylvania State University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2019), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shomir-wilson/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shomir-wilson/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shomir Wilson # Shomir Wilson Shomir Wilson has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2019, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Legal AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/); often with [Thomas Norton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-norton/), [Abhilasha Ravichander](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhilasha-ravichander/), [Alan W Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-w-black/). 2 papers in our library · 2016–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5056978982) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1235-3754) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130892863) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5056978982) · [97 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056978982) · [2,189 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056978982&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shomir-wilson/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 219 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shomir-wilson/cited-by/) · [9 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3360](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3360) 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=Shomir+Wilson) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shomir+Wilson) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shomir+Wilson) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shomir+Wilson) ## Affiliations [🎓**Pennsylvania State University** State College · United States 2018–2026 · 46 papersEmployment since 2018 · Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pennsylvania-state-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2011–2018 · 11 papersEmployment 2011–2016 · Postdoctoral Fellow / Lecturer / et al., School of Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of Cincinnati** Cincinnati · United States 2016–2018 · 4 papersEmployment 2016–2018 · Assistant Professor, EECS Department](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cincinnati/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2008–2013 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2013–2014Employment 2013–2014 · NSF International Research Fellow, School of Informatics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) 🏛️**University of Maryland** College Park · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2005–2011Education 2005–2011 · Ph.D., Computer ScienceEducation 2005–2008 · M.S., Computer Science [🎓**Virginia Tech** Blacksburg · United States 2000–2005Education 2000–2005 · B.S., MathematicsEducation 2000–2005 · B.A., PhilosophyEducation 2000–2005 · B.S., Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/virginia-tech/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Law · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/law/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Legal AI · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ravichander-2019-question-answering-privacy-policies-combining/) · [**2016** 1 paper The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wilson-2016-creation-analysis-website-privacy-policy/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wilson-2016-creation-analysis-website-privacy-policy/)** *(2016 · 336 citations)* Website privacy policies are legally binding, yet most users neither read nor understand them, and regulators cannot review them at scale. 2. **[Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ravichander-2019-question-answering-privacy-policies-combining/)** *(2019 · 163 citations)* Privacy policies legally govern how apps handle personal data, but almost nobody reads them. This paper addresses that gap by framing policy comprehension as a question answering task. The authors build PrivacyQA, a corpus containing 1750 questions that ask about what 35 mobile apps state in their privacy policies… ## All works 11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[The Creation and Analysis of a Website Privacy Policy Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wilson-2016-creation-analysis-website-privacy-policy/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Abhilash Dara, et al.*2016 · 336 citations* 2. **[Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ravichander-2019-question-answering-privacy-policies-combining/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Abhilasha Ravichander, Alan W Black, Shomir Wilson, et al.*2019 · 163 citations* 3. **[Identifying the Provision of Choices in Privacy Policy Text](https://aclanthology.org/D17-1294/) Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yet**Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra et al.*2017 · 100 citations* 4. **[Privacy at Scale: Introducing the PrivaSeer Corpus of Web Privacy Policies](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.532/) Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Mukund Srinath, Shomir Wilson, C Lee Giles*2021 · 47 citations* 5. **[Sociodemographic Bias in Language Models: A Survey and Forward Path](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08158) arXiv:2306.08158 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Vipul Gupta et al.*2023 · 40 citations* 6. **[From Prescription to Description: Mapping the GDPR to a Privacy Policy Corpus Annotation Scheme](https://doi.org/10.3233/faia200874) JURIX 2020 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Ellen Poplavska et al.*2020 · 23 citations* 7. **[The Creation of a Corpus of English Metalanguage](https://aclanthology.org/P12-1067/) Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Wilson, Shomir*2012 · 19 citations* 8. **[Toward Automatic Processing of English Metalanguage](https://aclanthology.org/I13-1091/) Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yet**Wilson, Shomir*2013 · 10 citations* 9. **[A Tale of Two Regulatory Regimes: Creation and Analysis of a Bilingual Privacy Policy Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.585/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · original ↗ · no summary yet**Siddhant Arora et al.*2022 · 7 citations* 10. **[Creation and Analysis of an International Corpus of Privacy Laws](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.365/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Sonu Gupta et al.*2024 · 6 citations* 11. **[From Conventional Web Privacy to Agentic Disclosure: How Tool Schemas May Invite LLM Oversharing](https://aclanthology.org/2026.privatenlp-main.1/) Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yet**Shahriar Shayesteh, Shomir Wilson*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Thomas Norton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-norton/) ×2 - [Abhilasha Ravichander](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhilasha-ravichander/) - [Alan W Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-w-black/) - [Eduard Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduard-hovy/) - [Frederick Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederick-liu/) - [Norman Sadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/norman-sadeh/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2016/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2019/) - JURIX 2020 — Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (IOS Press, FAIA) - Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) - Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) - Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 219 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shomir-wilson/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026