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# University of Southern California

University · USC [Los Angeles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/los-angeles/), [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/)in the agglomeration of [Los Angeles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/los-angeles/)

- [Website](https://usc.edu)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/03taz7m60)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I1174212)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4614)

[**86** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/works/) · [**152** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/authors/) · [**31,271** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/works/) · [**10,756** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/works/)

## People (152)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at University of Southern California: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (46)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Franz Josef Och](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franz-josef-och/) — 2003–2004 on 8 papers · 11 papers here · 23,468 citations
- [Eduard Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduard-hovy/) — 1988–2018 on 185 papers · 35 papers here · 25,596 citations
- [Kevin Knight](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/) — 1993–2019 on 143 papers · 21 papers here · 13,194 citations
- [Philipp Koehn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philipp-koehn/) — 2002–2003 on 8 papers · 42 papers here · 37,944 citations
- [Daniel Marcu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-marcu/) — current · 1999–2021 on 70 papers · 12 papers here · 11,400 citations
- [Ashish Vaswani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-vaswani/) — 2007–2017 on 17 papers · 8 papers here · 23,897 citations
- [Kristina Lerman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristina-lerman/) — current · 2001–2026 on 1,654 papers · 3 papers here · 5,738 citations
- [Ninareh Mehrabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ninareh-mehrabi/) — 2018–2024 on 17 papers · 3 papers here · 5,723 citations
- [David Chiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-chiang/) — 2006–2014 on 29 papers · employment (ORCID) · 12 papers here · 7,102 citations
- [Radu Soricut](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radu-soricut/) — 2002–2007 on 10 papers · education (Wikidata) · 6 papers here · 10,364 citations
- [Fred Morstatter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fred-morstatter/) — current · 2017–2026 on 99 papers · 2 papers here · 5,719 citations
- [Xiang Ren](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-ren/) — current · 2017–2025 on 205 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 11 papers here · 5,213 citations
- [Chin-Yew Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chin-yew-lin/) — 1993–2006 on 28 papers · 10 papers here · 5,187 citations
- [Aram Galstyan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aram-galstyan/) — current · 2001–2026 on 140 papers · 4 papers here · 5,915 citations
- [Nanyun Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nanyun-peng/) — 2017–2023 on 69 papers · employment (ORCID) · 11 papers here · 6,534 citations
- [Bill Yuchen Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-yuchen-lin/) — 2018–2023 on 25 papers · 10 papers here · 4,969 citations
- [Ulf Hermjakob](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ulf-hermjakob/) — current · 2001–2024 on 25 papers · 6 papers here · 2,907 citations
- [Jonathan May](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-may/) — current · 2006–2026 on 166 papers · education (ORCID) · employment (ORCID) · 5 papers here · 2,361 citations
- [Kenji Yamada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenji-yamada/) — 1995–2003 on 7 papers · 3 papers here · 2,069 citations
- [Jieyu Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jieyu-zhao/) — current · 2023–2026 on 20 papers · 5 papers here · 4,221 citations
- [Deepak Ravichandran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deepak-ravichandran/) — 2001–2006 on 10 papers · 2 papers here · 1,634 citations
- [Ron Artstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ron-artstein/) — 2008–2024 on 59 papers · 4 papers here · 2,206 citations
- [Xuezhe Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuezhe-ma/) — current · 2018–2026 on 35 papers · 6 papers here · 2,891 citations
- [Patrick Pantel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-pantel/) — 2004–2008 on 13 papers · 4 papers here · 2,105 citations
- [Jonathan Graehl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-graehl/) — 1997–2010 on 7 papers · 3 papers here · 1,199 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (106)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Barret Zoph](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barret-zoph/) — 2015–2016 on 4 papers · 8 papers here · 36,869 citations
- [Yejin Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/) — 2022–2023 on 9 papers · 48 papers here · 27,882 citations
- [Marjan Ghazvininejad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marjan-ghazvininejad/) — 2015–2019 on 12 papers · 6 papers here · 14,900 citations
- [Noah A. Smith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-a-smith/) — 2022–2023 on 2 papers · 61 papers here · 27,685 citations
- [Jason Riesa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-riesa/) — 2010–2012 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 5,974 citations
- [Dan Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) — 2020–2025 on 3 papers · 32 papers here · 16,275 citations
- [Kai-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wei-chang/) — 2021–2024 on 6 papers · 28 papers here · 14,938 citations
- [Swabha Swayamdipta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/swabha-swayamdipta/) — current · 2021–2026 on 56 papers · employment (ORCID) · 10 papers here · 5,354 citations
- [Dirk Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-hovy/) — 2009–2013 on 6 papers · education (ORCID) · education (Wikidata) · 18 papers here · 6,681 citations
- [Maarten Sap](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-sap/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 12 papers here · 9,429 citations
- [Liang Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-huang/) — 2010–2011 on 3 papers · 10 papers here · 3,427 citations
- [Donald Metzler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-metzler/) — 2010–2012 on 22 papers · 7 papers here · 5,776 citations
- [Liyuan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liyuan-liu/) — 2018–2019 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 2,369 citations
- [Jack Hessel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-hessel/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 9 papers here · 3,612 citations
- [Robin Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robin-jia/) — current · 2021–2026 on 78 papers · 6 papers here · 6,664 citations
- [Alisa Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alisa-liu/) — 2022–2023 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 1,880 citations
- [Liwei Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwei-jiang/) — 2023 on 3 papers · 9 papers here · 2,107 citations
- [Jingbo Shang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingbo-shang/) — 2018–2021 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 1,245 citations
- [Haitao Mi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitao-mi/) — 2010 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 1,466 citations
- [Tuhin Chakrabarty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tuhin-chakrabarty/) — 2020 on 4 papers · 5 papers here · 684 citations
- [Ximing Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ximing-lu/) — 2023 on 3 papers · 12 papers here · 2,904 citations
- [Jerry Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jerry-li/) — current · 2026 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 1,739 citations
- [Kuan-Hao Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuan-hao-huang/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 430 citations
- [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) — 2018–2025 on 2 papers · 45 papers here · 26,101 citations
- [Niki Parmar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niki-parmar/) — current · 2016–2025 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 20,754 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 152 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/authors/)

## Works in our library (86)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [Automatic Evaluation of Summaries Using N-gram Co-occurrence Statistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2003-automatic-evaluation-summaries-n-gram/) — Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy · 2003 · 1,967 citations
- [Survey Article: Inter-Coder Agreement for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/artstein-2008-survey-article-inter-coder-agreement/) — Ron Artstein, Massimo Poesio · 2008 · 1,770 citations
- [Determining the Sentiment of Opinions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2004-determining-sentiment-opinions/) — Soo-Min Kim, Eduard Hovy · 2004 · 1,677 citations
- [A Syntax-based Statistical Translation Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamada-2001-syntax-based-statistical-translation-model/) — Kenji Yamada, Kevin Knight · 2001 · 1,018 citations
- [GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ainslie-2023-gqa-training-generalized-multi-query/) — Joshua Ainslie, James Lee-Thorp, Michiel de Jong, et al. · 2023 · 1,012 citations
- [Learning surface text patterns for a Question Answering System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ravichandran-2002-learning-surface-text-patterns-question/) — Deepak Ravichandran, Eduard Hovy · 2002 · 970 citations
- [Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality Using Longest Common Subsequence and Skip-Bigram Statistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2004-automatic-evaluation-machine-translation-quality/) — Chin-Yew Lin, Franz Josef Och · 2004 · 937 citations
- [Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carlson-2001-building-discourse-tagged-corpus-framework/) — Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, Mary Ellen Okurovsky · 2001 · 912 citations
- [The Woman Worked as a Babysitter: On Biases in Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sheng-2019-woman-worked-as-babysitter-biases/) — Emily Sheng, Kai-Wei Chang, Premkumar Natarajan, et al. · 2019 · 751 citations
- [ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans using Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2022-progprompt-generating-situated-robot-task/) — Ishika Singh, Valts Blukis, Arsalan Mousavian, et al. · 2022 · 710 citations
- [Style Transfer in Text: Exploration and Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fu-2017-style-transfer-text-exploration-evaluation/) — Zhenxin Fu, Xiaoye Tan, Nanyun Peng, et al. · 2017 · 701 citations
- [Espresso: Leveraging Generic Patterns for Automatically Harvesting Semantic Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pantel-2006-espresso-leveraging-generic-patterns-automatically/) — Patrick Pantel, Marco Pennacchiotti · 2006 · 680 citations
- [Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2017-cross-lingual-name-tagging-linking/) — Xiaoman Pan, Boliang Zhang, Jonathan May, et al. · 2017 · 668 citations
- [A Phrase-Based,Joint Probability Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2002-phrase-based-joint-probability-model/) — Daniel Marcu, Daniel Wong · 2002 · 661 citations
- [Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Translation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2006-scalable-inference-training-context-rich/) — Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, et al. · 2006 · 638 citations
- [Towards a Unified View of Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2021-towards-unified-view-parameter-efficient/) — Junxian He, Chunting Zhou, Xuezhe Ma, et al. · 2021 · 604 citations
- [The Automated Acquisition of Topic Signatures for Text Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2000-automated-acquisition-topic-signatures-text/) — Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard Hovy · 2000 · 585 citations
- [A Robustly Optimized BERT Pre-training Approach with Post-training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhuang-2021-robustly-optimized-bert-pre-training/) — Liu Zhuang, Lin Wayne, Shi Ya, et al. · 2021 · 585 citations
- [Improving Machine Translation Performance by Exploiting Non-Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/munteanu-2005-improving-machine-translation-performance-exploiting/) — Dragos Stefan Munteanu, Daniel Marcu · 2005 · 576 citations
- [Sentence Level Discourse Parsing using Syntactic and Lexical Information](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/soricut-2003-sentence-level-discourse-parsing-syntactic/) — Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu · 2003 · 560 citations
- [Extracting Opinions, Opinion Holders, and Topics Expressed in Online News Media Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2006-extracting-opinions-opinion-holders-topics/) — Soo-Min Kim, Eduard Hovy · 2006 · 559 citations
- [Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/langkilde-1998-generation-that-exploits-corpus-based/) — Irene Langkilde, Kevin Knight · 1998 · 521 citations
- [An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2002-unsupervised-approach-recognizing-discourse-relations/) — Daniel Marcu, Abdessamad Echihabi · 2002 · 513 citations
- [Empirical Methods for Compound Splitting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2003-empirical-methods-compound-splitting/) — Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight · 2003 · 507 citations
- [Does String-Based Neural MT Learn Source Syntax?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2016-does-string-based-neural-mt/) — Xing Shi, Inkit Padhi, Kevin Knight · 2016 · 492 citations

[See all 86 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/works/)

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Machine translation (16)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Discourse analysis (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Coreference resolution (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Sentiment & emotion (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Question answering (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Text generation (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Dialogue systems (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Named entity recognition (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Semantic role labeling (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/)

**14 more topics**

[Low-resource languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Efficient models & compression (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Implicature (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Legal AI (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/)

## Fields

[Natural language processing (46)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Linguistics & languages (27)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Machine translation (16)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [AI & machine learning (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/ai/) · [Mathematics & statistics (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Computing & GPUs (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/) · [Law (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/law/)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[University of California, Los Angeles 9](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) [Carnegie Mellon University 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [Columbia University 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) [Stanford University 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) [Google 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [University of Washington 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) [University of Oxford 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) [Microsoft 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) [University of Wisconsin–Madison 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wisconsin-madison/) [University of Maryland, College Park 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/)

## Parent and units

**Units** [USC Institute for Creative Technologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/usc-institute-for-creative-technologies/)

**Related** Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Children's Hospital Los Angeles Good Samaritan Hospital Huntington Hospital Keck Hospital of USC LAC+USC Medical Center VA West Los Angeles Medical Center

From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked.

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at University of Southern California; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.