--- title: "Ted Pedersen — author profile and papers" description: "Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2003), h-index 36 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-pedersen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-pedersen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ted Pedersen # Ted Pedersen Ted Pedersen works on lexical semantics and on the evaluation of language technology. The papers here ask how closely two concepts are related in meaning and how systems that link words across languages can be compared fairly. The work draws on lexical resources such as WordNet and on parallel texts, and it pairs new measures with structured comparative testing. The most cited paper here, [Extended Gloss Overlaps as a Measure of Semantic Relatedness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banerjee-2003-extended-gloss-overlaps-as-measure/), written with [Satanjeev Banerjee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/satanjeev-banerjee/), builds on the Lesk idea of counting words that dictionary definitions share. WordNet glosses are short, so the measure also compares the definitions of neighbouring concepts, such as hypernyms, hyponyms and meronyms, along with usage examples. It gives longer shared phrases more weight than scattered single words. The second paper, [An Evaluation Exercise for Word Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mihalcea-2003-evaluation-exercise-word-alignment/), with [Rada Mihalcea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rada-mihalcea/), reports on a shared task held at a 2003 HLT/NAACL workshop on parallel texts. Teams aligned every token of a test set across sentence-aligned corpora in two language pairs. The paper describes the setup, the participating systems and their results. Its design kept systems that used outside resources apart from those that did not, and it scored alignments both with and without unlinked words. Pedersen's papers here date from 2003 and touch on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) and [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/). Pedersen is based at the [University of Minnesota, Duluth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota-duluth/). Earlier bylines also list the [University of Minnesota](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) and, in the late 1990s, [Southern Methodist University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southern-methodist-university/). Ted Pedersen has 2 papers in our library, in 2003, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Rada Mihalcea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rada-mihalcea/), [Satanjeev Banerjee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/satanjeev-banerjee/). 2 papers in our library · 2003 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5060188217) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0417-4123) · [**h-index 36**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5060188217) · [208 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060188217) · [8,473 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060188217&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-pedersen/#papers) · [🔗 234 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-pedersen/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #1790](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/18/#star-1790) 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=Ted+Pedersen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ted+Pedersen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ted+Pedersen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ted+Pedersen) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Minnesota, Duluth** Duluth · United States 2000–2026 · 100 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota-duluth/) · [🎓**University of Minnesota** Minneapolis · United States 2002–2020 · 24 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) · [🎓**Southern Methodist University** Dallas · United States 1995–1998 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southern-methodist-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/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2003** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-pedersen/year/2003/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Extended Gloss Overlaps as a Measure of Semantic Relatedness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banerjee-2003-extended-gloss-overlaps-as-measure/)** *(2003 · 822 citations)* The authors propose a measure of semantic relatedness between concepts that relies on dictionary definitions (glosses). 2. **[An Evaluation Exercise for Word Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mihalcea-2003-evaluation-exercise-word-alignment/)** *(2003 · 326 citations)* This paper reports on a shared word alignment task run as part of a 2003 HLT/NAACL workshop dedicated to creating and applying parallel texts. ## Also in our library 3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Rada Mihalcea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rada-mihalcea/) - [Satanjeev Banerjee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/satanjeev-banerjee/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 234 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ted-pedersen/cited-by/).