2026 Barbara Plank: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	47	6594	6403	312	302	185	7284

Overview

Barbara Plank is affiliated with the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence. Their scholarly output also extends to related subfields such as Language and Linguistics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, and Molecular Biology.

The range of topics covered in their research includes several areas within natural language processing and machine learning. Key topics are:

Natural Language Processing Techniques
Topic Modeling
Text Readability and Simplification
Speech and Dialogue Systems
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Linguistic Research and Analysis
Linguistic Education and Pedagogy

Barbara Plank has a notable publication record with frequent appearances in several venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Research Portal (King's College London)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The following are select recent papers authored or co-authored by Barbara Plank, with publication years and venues:

"Learning from Disagreement: A Survey," 2021, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
"Using natural language processing to analyse text data in behavioural science," 2025, Nature Reviews Psychology
"Neural Natural Language Generation: A Survey on Multilinguality, Multimodality, Controllability and Learning," 2022, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
"SkillSpan: Hard and Soft Skill Extraction from English Job Postings," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
"A Case for Soft Loss Functions," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as:

Rob van der Goot
Verena Blaschke
Max Müller-Eberstein
Philipp Mondorf
Siyao Peng

Best Publications

Universal Dependencies 2.2

Joakim Nivre;Mitchell Abrams;Željko Agić;Lars Ahrenberg

608
Citations
Multilingual Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Models and Auxiliary Loss

Barbara Plank;Anders Søgaard;Yoav Goldberg

469
Citations
Automatic description generation from images: a survey of models, datasets, and evaluation measures

Raffaella Bernardi;Ruket Cakici;Desmond Elliott;Aykut Erdem

418
Citations
Universal Dependencies 2.1

Joakim Nivre;Željko Agić;Lars Ahrenberg;Lene Antonsen

250
Citations
Universal Dependencies 2.0

Joakim Nivre;Željko Agić;Lars Ahrenberg;Maria Jesus Aranzabe

221
Citations
Universal Dependencies 2.3

Joakim Nivre;Mitchell Abrams;Željko Agić;Lars Ahrenberg

220
Citations
Neural Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in NLP—A Survey

Alan Ramponi;Barbara Plank

220
Citations
Universal Dependencies 1.2

Joakim Nivre;Željko Agić;Maria Jesus Aranzabe;Masayuki Asahara

210
Citations
When is multitask learning effective? Semantic sequence prediction under varying data conditions

Héctor Martínez Alonso;Barbara Plank

208
Citations
Learning from Disagreement: A Survey

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198
Citations
Personality Traits on Twitterâ€”orâ€”How to Get 1,500 Personality Tests in a Week

Barbara Plank;Dirk Hovy

196
Citations
Learning to select data for transfer learning with Bayesian Optimization

Sebastian Ruder;Barbara Plank

182
Citations
Strong Baselines for Neural Semi-Supervised Learning under Domain Shift

Sebastian Ruder;Barbara Plank

169
Citations
Embedding Semantic Similarity in Tree Kernels for Domain Adaptation of Relation Extraction

Barbara Plank;Alessandro Moschitti

143
Citations
Multilingual Projection for Parsing Truly Low-Resource Languages

Željko Agić;Anders Johannsen;Barbara Plank;Barbara Plank;Héctor Martínez Alonso;Héctor Martínez Alonso

127
Citations
TwiSty: A Multilingual Twitter Stylometry Corpus for Gender and Personality Profiling

Ben Verhoeven;Walter Daelemans;Barbara Plank

109
Citations
Learning part-of-speech taggers with inter-annotator agreement loss

Barbara Plank;Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

106
Citations
Multi-lingual opinion mining on YouTube

Aliaksei Severyn;Alessandro Moschitti;Olga Uryupina;Barbara Plank

102
Citations
Linguistically debatable or just plain wrong

Barbara Plank;Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

100
Citations
Effective Measures of Domain Similarity for Parsing

Barbara Plank;Gertjan van Noord

98
Citations
We Need to Consider Disagreement in Evaluation

Valerio Basile;Michael Fell;Tommaso Fornaciari;Dirk Hovy

67
Citations
Universal Dependencies 2.7

Daniel Zeman;Joakim Nivre;Mitchell Abrams;Elia Ackermann

16
Citations
Universal Dependencies 1.1

Željko Agić;Maria Jesus Aranzabe;Aitziber Atutxa;Cristina Bosco

6
Citations
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Daniël de Kok;Barbara Plank;van Gerardus Noord

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Søgaard University of Copenhagen

Gertjan van Noord University of Groningen

Ryan McDonald ASAPP

Dirk Hovy Bocconi University

Sampo Pyysalo University of Turku

Jan Hajič Charles University

Christopher D. Manning Stanford University

Filip Ginter University of Turku

Slav Petrov Google (United States)

Joakim Nivre Uppsala University

External Links

Personal website of Barbara Plank Google Scholar page

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