2026 Christopher Potts: 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	48	5998	5826	2699	2602	138	28343

Overview

Christopher Potts is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes in the field of computer science. Their research focuses primarily on artificial intelligence, with significant contributions in related subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, information systems, electrical and electronic engineering, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics of Christopher Potts's work include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Text Readability and Simplification
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Speech and Dialogue Systems
Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

Christopher Potts has authored and co-authored numerous papers with recent notable publications including:

On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
ColBERTv2: Effective and Efficient Retrieval via Lightweight Late Interaction, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Sentiment Flow Through Hyperlink Networks, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
A data-driven framework for mapping domains of human neurobiology, 2021, Nature Neuroscience

Their frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
SSRN Electronic Journal

Christopher Potts has collaborated extensively with several researchers including Omar Khattab, Zhengxuan Wu, Atticus Geiger, Christopher D. Manning, and Matei Zaharia.

Best Publications

Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank

Richard Socher;Alex Perelygin;Jean Wu;Jason Chuang

7717
Citations
Learning Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis

Andrew L. Maas;Raymond E. Daly;Peter T. Pham;Dan Huang

4125
Citations
A large annotated corpus for learning natural language inference

Samuel R. Bowman;Gabor Angeli;Christopher Potts;Christopher D. Manning

3894
Citations
The logic of conventional implicatures

Christopher Potts

2487
Citations
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models.

Rishi Bommasani;Drew A. Hudson;Ehsan Adeli;Russ Altman

2127
Citations
No country for old members: user lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil;Robert West;Dan Jurafsky;Jure Leskovec

470
Citations
A computational approach to politeness with application to social factors

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil;Moritz Sudhof;Dan Jurafsky;Jure Leskovec

435
Citations
A Fast Unified Model for Parsing and Sentence Understanding

Samuel R. Bowman;Jon Gauthier;Abhinav Rastogi;Raghav Gupta

345
Citations
Presupposition and Implicature

Christopher Potts

309
Citations
Perspective-shifting with appositives and expressives

Jesse A. Harris;Christopher Potts

302
Citations
Harmonic grammar with linear programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology

Christopher Potts;Joe Pater;Karen Jesney;Rajesh Bhatt

298
Citations
THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF AS-PARENTHETICALS

Christopher Potts

265
Citations
Exploiting Social Network Structure for Person-to-Person Sentiment Analysis

Robert West;Hristo S. Paskov;Jure Leskovec;Christopher Potts

259
Citations
Fitting In or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness

Amir Goldberg;Sameer B. Srivastava;V. Govind Manian;William Monroe

251
Citations
ColBERTv2: Effective and Efficient Retrieval via Lightweight Late Interaction.

Keshav Santhanam;Omar Khattab;Jon Saad-Falcon;Christopher Potts

225
Citations
The Pragmatic Values of Evidential Sentences

Christopher Davis;Christopher Potts;Margaret Speas

210
Citations
Conventional Implicatures: A Distinguished Class of Meanings

Christopher Potts

210
Citations
Dynabench: Rethinking Benchmarking in NLP.

Douwe Kiela;Max Bartolo;Yixin Nie;Divyansh Kaushik

203
Citations
Crowdsourcing and language studies: the new generation of linguistic data

Robert Munro;Steven Bethard;Victor Kuperman;Vicky Tzuyin Lai

197
Citations
The Life and Death of Discourse Entities: Identifying Singleton Mentions

Marta Recasens;Marie-Catherine de Marneffe;Christopher Potts

189
Citations
Did it happen? the pragmatic complexity of veridicality assessment

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe;Christopher D. Manning;Christopher Potts

169
Citations
Into the Conventional‐Implicature Dimension

Christopher Potts

150
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. Manning Stanford University

Samuel R. Bowman New York University

Noah D. Goodman Stanford University

Dan Jurafsky Stanford University

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe The Ohio State University

Jure Leskovec Stanford University

Lauri Karttunen Stanford University

Michael C. Frank Stanford University

Amit Etkin Stanford University

Douwe Kiela Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Christopher Potts

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