--- title: "Tim Finin — author profile and papers · Named entity recognition" description: "Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2010–2013), h-index 82 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-finin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-finin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tim Finin # Tim Finin Tim Finin's papers here sit where natural language processing meets structured knowledge. They ask how a system can tell when two pieces of text mean the same thing, and how a name in a document can be tied to the right entry in a large reference resource. The methods mix corpus statistics with curated lexical and knowledge resources, and supervised learning with careful feature design. They touch on [Information extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) and [Knowledge graphs & ontologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/). The most cited work, [UMBC_EBIQUITY-CORE: Semantic Textual Similarity Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/han-2013-umbc-ebiquity-core-semantic-textual/) (2013), describes a team's entries to a shared task on scoring sentence pairs for similarity. All the entries rest on a common word-similarity measure. It derives latent semantic analysis scores from a cleaned web corpus and corrects them with WordNet relations. One entry aligns words across sentences without any training, while the others combine many features in a regression model. Close behind is [Entity Disambiguation for Knowledge Base Population](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dredze-2010-entity-disambiguation-knowledge-base-population/) (2010). It links mentions of people, organisations and places to a knowledge base through fast candidate filtering followed by a learned ranker. In that ranker, "no matching entry" competes as one more option. Spanning 2010 to 2013, these papers move from entity linking toward measuring meaning at the level of words and sentences. Finin works at the [University of Maryland, Baltimore County](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/), with earlier affiliations at Unisys and the [University of Pennsylvania](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/). Co-authors on the entity work include [Mark Dredze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-dredze/), [Paul McNamee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-mcnamee/), [Delip Rao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/delip-rao/) and [Jonathan Weese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-weese/). Tim Finin has 2 papers in our library, in 2010–2013, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Information extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/), [Knowledge graphs & ontologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/); often with [Delip Rao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/delip-rao/), [Jonathan Weese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-weese/), [Mark Dredze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-dredze/). 2 papers in our library · 2010–2013 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009972149) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6593-1792) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7803487) · [**h-index 82**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009972149) · [631 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009972149) · [28,994 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009972149&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-finin/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 158 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-finin/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2562](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/26/#star-2562) 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=Tim+Finin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tim+Finin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tim+Finin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tim+Finin) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Maryland, Baltimore County** Baltimore · United States 1991–2026 · 319 papersEmployment 1991–2025Employment since 2025*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, Baltimore** Baltimore · United States 1999–2022 · 50 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-baltimore/) · [🏢**Unisys** Blue Bell · United States 1987–2003 · 14 papersEmployment 1987–1991](https://ror.org/033ssdc55) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1980–1988 · 12 papersEmployment 1980–1987](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2000–2020 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 1974–1980 · 3 papersEducation 1974–1980](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1967–1974 · 1 paperEducation 1967–1971Employment 1971–1974](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) 🏛️**Amandina College** Herk-de-Stad · [Belgium](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/belgium/) 1966–1967Education 1966–1967 🏛️**Big Foot High School** Walworth · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 1963–1966Education 1963–1966 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. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 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/) · [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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information extraction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Semantic similarity · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/semantic-similarity/) · [Knowledge representation and reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/knowledge-representation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2013** 1 paper Tim Finin's papers of 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/han-2013-umbc-ebiquity-core-semantic-textual/) · [**2010** 1 paper Tim Finin's papers of 2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dredze-2010-entity-disambiguation-knowledge-base-population/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[UMBC_EBIQUITY-CORE: Semantic Textual Similarity Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/han-2013-umbc-ebiquity-core-semantic-textual/)** *(2013 · 398 citations)* The paper describes three systems submitted by the UMBC/JHU team to the *SEM 2013 Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) shared task. 2. **[Entity Disambiguation for Knowledge Base Population](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dredze-2010-entity-disambiguation-knowledge-base-population/)** *(2010 · 394 citations)* The paper tackles entity linking: mapping a person, organization or geo-political mention in a document to its entry in a large knowledge base, or returning NIL when no entry exists. ## All works 4 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. **[UMBC_EBIQUITY-CORE: Semantic Textual Similarity Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/han-2013-umbc-ebiquity-core-semantic-textual/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/joint-conference-on-lexical-and-computational-semantics-sem-proceedings-of-the-2/)**Lushan Han, Abhay L. Kashyap, Tim Finin, et al.*2013 · 398 citations* 2. **[Entity Disambiguation for Knowledge Base Population](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dredze-2010-entity-disambiguation-knowledge-base-population/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Mark Dredze, Paul McNamee, Delip Rao, et al.*2010 · 394 citations* 3. **[Ebiquity: Paraphrase and Semantic Similarity in Twitter using Skipgrams ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S15-2009/) Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) · no summary yet**Taneeya Satyapanich, Hang Gao, Tim Finin*2015 · 16 citations* 4. **[Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws72778.2026.00159) arXiv:2606.19464 · 2026 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Sydney, Australia, 2026, pp. 1255-1264, · no summary yet**Anupam Joshi et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Delip Rao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/delip-rao/) - [Jonathan Weese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-weese/) - [Mark Dredze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-dredze/) - [Paul McNamee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-mcnamee/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2010/) - [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/joint-conference-on-lexical-and-computational-semantics-sem-proceedings-of-the-2/): [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/joint-conference-on-lexical-and-computational-semantics-sem-proceedings-of-the-2/2013/) - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 158 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-finin/cited-by/). 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