--- title: "Timothy J. O'Donnell — author profile and papers · English" description: "Timothy J. O'Donnell, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 12 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-j-o-donnell/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-j-o-donnell/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Timothy J. O'Donnell # Timothy J. O'Donnell Timothy J. O'Donnell has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/), [Takashi Morita](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takashi-morita/), [Tim Vieira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-vieira/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102014720) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-977X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91385321) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102014720) · [59 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102014720) · [1,215 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102014720&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-j-o-donnell/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 48 times in our library · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11713](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/118/#star-11713) 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=Timothy+J.+O%27Donnell) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Timothy+J.+O%27Donnell) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Timothy+J.+O%27Donnell) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Timothy+J.+O%27Donnell) ## Affiliations [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada 2017–2026 · 47 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2020–2026 · 18 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) · [🔬**Canadian Institute for Advanced Research** Toronto · Canada 2020–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2013–2016 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2005–2016 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-j-o-donnell/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-j-o-donnell/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Unsupervised Classification of English Words Based on Phonological Information: Discovery of Germanic and Latinate Clusters](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/morita-2025-unsupervised-classification-english-words-based/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* The authors cluster 38,731 English lemmas from CELEX, represented as phoneme strings with no stress or morphology, using a Dirichlet-process mixture with a trigram phoneme model and variational inference. 2. **[Prefix Parsing is Just Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pasti-2026-prefix-parsing-is-just-parsing/)** *(2026)* Prefix parsing asks whether the beginning of a string can still be completed into a sentence of a context-free grammar. ## All works 6 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. **[CLOSURE: Assessing Systematic Generalization of CLEVR Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05783) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Dzmitry Bahdanau et al.*2019 · 67 citations* 2. **[Systematic Generalization with Edge Transformers ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00578) arXiv:2112.00578 · no summary yet**Leon Bergen, Timothy J. O'Donnell, Dzmitry Bahdanau*2021 · 12 citations* 3. **[Compositional Generalization in Dependency Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.448/) Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Emily Goodwin et al.*2022 · 6 citations* 4. [**Unsupervised Classification of English Words Based on Phonological Information: Discovery of Germanic and Latinate Clusters**Takashi Morita, Timothy J. O'Donnell*English · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/morita-2025-unsupervised-classification-english-words-based/) 5. **[Jointly Learning Truth-Conditional Denotations and Groundings using Parallel Attention ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06645) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Leon Bergen, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Timothy J. O’Donnell*2021 · 1 citation* 6. **[Prefix Parsing is Just Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pasti-2026-prefix-parsing-is-just-parsing/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Clemente Pasti, Andreas Opedal, Timothy J. O'Donnell, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/) - [Takashi Morita](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takashi-morita/) - [Tim Vieira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-vieira/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Open Mind](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/open-mind/): [Open Mind 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/open-mind/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 48 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 1 November 2026