--- title: "Tracy Holloway King — author profile and papers" description: "Tracy Holloway King, Adobe Systems: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2002), h-index 32 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tracy-holloway-king/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tracy-holloway-king/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tracy Holloway King # Tracy Holloway King Tracy Holloway King works in computational linguistics on large, hand-built grammars of natural language and on making them practical for real text and for many languages. The papers here centre on Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) and the XLE constraint-based parser. They pair detailed linguistic analysis with statistical methods for choosing among competing parses, and they belong to the area of [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/). The most cited work, [Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/riezler-2002-parsing-wall-street-journal-lexical/) (2002), applies the ParGram English grammar to the Penn Wall Street Journal treebank. Rather than converting the treebank's shallow brackets into LFG, it uses them to narrow the grammar's candidate analyses, which then train a log-linear disambiguation model. It also keeps the parser useful on unruly input in two ways. When no complete analysis exists, it assembles the fewest well-formed fragments. When time or memory runs short, it limits the work spent on unfinished structures. [The Parallel Grammar Project](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/butt-2002-parallel-grammar-project/), from the same year, reports on coordinated LFG grammars developed at separate sites for six languages, among them Urdu, Japanese, Norwegian and German as well as English and French. These grammars keep language-specific tree structures but agree on a shared functional layer. The project compares feature inventories across languages and tries out new analyses in one grammar before the others adopt them. Both papers here date from 2002, so the most recent work listed continues this same line of multilingual grammar engineering and statistical parsing. King is currently at [Adobe Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/adobe-systems/). Earlier bylines include the [Palo Alto Research Center](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/palo-alto-research-center/) from 1998 to 2012, as well as [Microsoft](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) and eBay. Co-authors on these papers include [Stefan Riezler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-riezler/), [Miriam Butt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miriam-butt/), [Ronald M. Kaplan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronald-m-kaplan/), Mark Johnson and Helge Dyvik. Tracy Holloway King has 2 papers in our library, in 2002, most of them on [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/); often with [Helge Dyvik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/helge-dyvik/), [Mark Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/), [Miriam Butt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miriam-butt/). 2 papers in our library · 2002 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5031305137) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7956-505X) · [**h-index 32**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5031305137) · [179 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031305137) · [3,907 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031305137&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tracy-holloway-king/#papers) · [🔗 216 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tracy-holloway-king/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2308](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/24/#star-2308) 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=Tracy+Holloway+King) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tracy+Holloway+King) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tracy+Holloway+King) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tracy+Holloway+King) ## Affiliations [🏢**Adobe Systems** San Jose · United States 2020–2026 · 27 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/adobe-systems/) · [🔬**Palo Alto Research Center** Palo Alto · United States 1998–2012 · 25 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/palo-alto-research-center/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2008–2011 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🏢**eBay** San Jose · United States 2012–2015 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/05cnabr44) 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. ## Topics [Syntax & grammar formalisms (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2002** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tracy-holloway-king/year/2002/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/riezler-2002-parsing-wall-street-journal-lexical/)** *(2002 · 396 citations)* The paper scales a stochastic parser built on a hand-written, linguistically detailed grammar up to the UPenn Wall Street Journal (WSJ) treebank. 2. **[The Parallel Grammar Project](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/butt-2002-parallel-grammar-project/)** *(2002 · 392 citations)* Building a large grammar development platform takes a lot of effort, so it pays off only if one platform can serve many languages and many purposes. ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Helge Dyvik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/helge-dyvik/) - [Mark Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/) - [Miriam Butt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miriam-butt/) - [Ronald M. Kaplan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronald-m-kaplan/) - [Stefan Riezler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-riezler/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 216 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [19 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tracy-holloway-king/cited-by/).