--- title: "Thomas Emerson — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Thomas Emerson: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2003–2005) — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-emerson/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-emerson/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Thomas Emerson # Thomas Emerson Thomas Emerson has 2 papers in our library, in 2003–2005, most of them on [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Richard Sproat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-sproat/). 2 papers in our library · 2003–2005 No OpenAlex profile matched yet. [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-emerson/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 204 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-emerson/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3683](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/37/#star-3683) 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=Thomas+Emerson) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Thomas+Emerson) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Thomas+Emerson) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Thomas+Emerson) ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Tokenization & segmentation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2005** 1 paper Thomas Emerson's papers of 2005](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/emerson-2005-second-international-chinese-word-segmentation/) · [**2003** 1 paper Thomas Emerson's papers of 2003](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sproat-2003-first-international-chinese-word-segmentation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The First International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sproat-2003-first-international-chinese-word-segmentation/)** *(2003 · 286 citations)* Chinese word segmentation research has been hard to compare because each group tested on its own data and several incompatible segmentation standards exist. 2. **[The Second International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/emerson-2005-second-international-chinese-word-segmentation/)** *(2005 · 129 citations)* This paper reports on the second SIGHAN Chinese word segmentation bakeoff, held in summer 2005. Because Chinese text has no spaces between words, and what counts as a "word" is itself contested, segmentation is a basic but difficult preprocessing step. The organizers wanted to measure how far the field had moved… ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Richard Sproat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-sproat/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sighan-workshop-on-chinese-language-processing/) ×2: [SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing 2005](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sighan-workshop-on-chinese-language-processing/2005/), [SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing 2003](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sighan-workshop-on-chinese-language-processing/2003/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 204 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-emerson/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026