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D-Index
73
Citations
26042
World Ranking
1563
National Ranking
817

Alan W. Black publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan W. Black sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 404 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Alan W. Black D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan W. Black sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alan W. Black is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, such as Traffic and Road Safety, Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Recent publications by Alan W. Black include the following:

  • Effects of Precipitation Type on Crash Relative Risk Estimates in Kansas, 2020, published in Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Trend Analysis of Multiple Extreme Hourly Precipitation Time Series in the Southeastern United States, 2020, published in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • How Rare Was the August 2016 South-Central Louisiana Heavy Rainfall Event?, 2020, published in Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • The Relationships between Adverse Weather, Traffic Mobility, and Driver Behavior, 2023, published in Meteorology
  • Mere Account Mein Kitna Balance Hai? -- On Building Voice Enabled Banking Services for Multilingual Communities, 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)

These papers reflect collaboration with multiple frequent co-authors including Vincent M. Brown, Barry D. Keim, William D. Kappel, Douglas M. Hultstrand, and John A. Knox.

Alan W. Black has contributed work published in venues such as Meteorology, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Accident Analysis & Prevention, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, and Journal of Hydrometeorology. Among these, Meteorology and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society are notable for having multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Unit selection in a concatenative speech synthesis system using a large speech database

    A.J. Hunt;A.W. Black

  • Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

    A.W. Black;H. Zen;K. Tokuda

  • Voice Conversion Based on Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Spectral Parameter Trajectory

    T. Toda;A.W. Black;K. Tokuda

  • Finding Function in Form: Compositional Character Models for Open Vocabulary Word Representation

    Wang Ling;Chris Dyer;Alan W Black;Isabel Trancoso

  • The CMU Arctic speech databases.

    John Kominek;Alan W. Black

  • The HMM-based speech synthesis system (HTS) version 2.0.

    Heiga Zen;Takashi Nose;Junichi Yamagishi;Shinji Sako

  • Automatically clustering similar units for unit selection in speech synthesis.

    Alan W Black;Paul A Taylor

  • Pocketsphinx: A Free, Real-Time Continuous Speech Recognition System for Hand-Held Devices

    D. Huggins-Daines;M. Kumar;A. Chan;A.W. Black

  • AN HMM-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM APPLIED TO ENGLISH

    Keiichi Tokuda;Heiga Zen;Alan W. Black

  • The Dialog State Tracking Challenge

    Jason Williams;Antoine Raux;Deepak Ramachandran;Alan Black

  • Normalization of non-standard words

    Richard Sproat;Alan W. Black;Stanley Chen;Shankar Kumar

  • The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2)

    Emily Dinan;Varvara Logacheva;Valentin Malykh;Alexander H. Miller

  • Two/Too Simple Adaptations of Word2Vec for Syntax Problems

    Wang Ling;Chris Dyer;Alan W. Black;Isabel Trancoso

  • The Architecture of the Festival Speech Synthesis System

    Paul Taylor;Alan W Black;Richard Caley

  • Measuring Bias in Contextualized Word Representations

    Keita Kurita;Nidhi Vyas;Ayush Pareek;Alan W Black

  • The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series

    Jason D. Williams;Matthew Henderson;Antoine Raux;Blaise Thomson

  • Style Transfer Through Back-Translation

    Shrimai Prabhumoye;Yulia Tsvetkov;Ruslan Salakhutdinov;Alan W Black

  • Character-based Neural Machine Translation

    Wang Ling;Isabel Trancoso;Chris Dyer;Alan W Black

  • Issues in Building General Letter to Sound Rules

    Alan W. Black;Kevin A. Lenzo;Vincent Pagel

  • Let's Go Public! Taking a Spoken Dialog System to the Real World

    Antoine Raux;Brian Langner;Dan Bohus;Alan W. Black

  • Finding Function in Form: Compositional Character Models for Open Vocabulary Word Representation

    Wang Ling;Tiago Luís;Luís Marujo;Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Maxine Eskenazi
Maxine Eskenazi Carnegie Mellon University
Florian Metze
Florian Metze Carnegie Mellon University
Tanja Schultz
Tanja Schultz University of Bremen
Alexander I. Rudnicky
Alexander I. Rudnicky Carnegie Mellon University
Yulia Tsvetkov
Yulia Tsvetkov University of Washington
Isabel Trancoso
Isabel Trancoso Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
Keiichi Tokuda
Keiichi Tokuda Nagoya Institute of Technology
Tomoki Toda
Tomoki Toda Nagoya University
Chris Dyer
Chris Dyer Google (United States)
Graham Neubig
Graham Neubig Carnegie Mellon University

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