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61
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3071
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David Traum 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 David Traum sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 317 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Traum 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 David Traum sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David Traum is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science with significant contributions to artificial intelligence and related subfields.

The main fields of study for David Traum include:

  • Computer Science
  • Psychology

Their subfields of study encompass:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Social Psychology
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Human-Computer Interaction

The scientist has worked extensively on topics such as:

  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Topic Modeling
  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Robotics and Automated Systems
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David Traum include:

  • "Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research" (2021), published in Computer Speech & Language
  • "Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9" (2024), published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
  • "Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges" (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Interactive Evaluation of Dialog Track at DSTC9" (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

David Traum has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Carla Gordon
  • Matthew Marge
  • Birgit Lugrin
  • Shikib Mehri
  • Seyed Hossein Alavi

Their publications appear often in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Robotics
  • Computer Speech & Language
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
  • IEEE Access

David Traum is also an author of books published by the Association for Computing Machinery, including two editions of The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents (2021 and 2022).

Best Publications

  • Information state and dialogue management in the TRINDI dialogue move engine toolkit

    Staffan Larsson;David R. Traum

  • A Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversation

    David Rood Traum

  • SimSensei kiosk: a virtual human interviewer for healthcare decision support

    David DeVault;Ron Artstein;Grace Benn;Teresa Dey

  • The role of grounding in collaborative learning tasks

    Michael Baker;Tia Hansen;Richard Joiner;David Traum

  • Towards a Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversation

    Unknown

  • The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management

    David R. Traum;Staffan Larsson

  • The TRAINS Project: A Case Study in Defining a Conversational Planning Agent

    James F. Allen;Lenhart K. Schubert;George Ferguson;Peter Heeman

  • The Distress Analysis Interview Corpus of human and computer interviews

    Jonathan Gratch;Ron Artstein;Gale Lucas;Giota stratou

  • Conversation Acts in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue

    David R. Traum;Elizabeth A. Hinkelman

  • Sharing Solutions: Persistence and Grounding in Multimodal Collaborative Problem Solving

    Pierre Dillenbourg;David Traum

  • Embodied agents for multi-party dialogue in immersive virtual worlds

    David Traum;Jeff Rickel

  • Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing

    David R. Traum;James F. Allen

  • Toward virtual humans

    William Swartout;Jonathan Gratch;Randall W. Hill;Eduard Hovy

  • Toward a new generation of virtual humans for interactive experiences

    J. Rickel;S. Marsella;J. Gratch;R. Hill

  • Conversational Actions and Discourse Situations

    Massimo Poesio;David R. Traum

  • Learning by explaining to oneself and to others.

    R. Ploetzner;P. Dillenbourg;M. Praier;D. Traum

  • Towards an ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation

    Harry Bunt;Jan Alexandersson;Jean Carletta;Jae-Woong Choe

  • All Together Now

    Arno Hartholt;David Traum;Stacy C. Marsella;Ari Shapiro

  • Ada and grace: toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides

    William Swartout;David Traum;Ron Artstein;Dan Noren

  • All Together Now: Introducing the Virtual Human Toolkit

    Arno Hartholt;David R. Traum;Stacy C. Marsella;Ari Shapiro

  • Multi-party, Multi-issue, Multi-strategy Negotiation for Multi-modal Virtual Agents

    David Traum;Stacy C. Marsella;Jonathan Gratch;Jina Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Gratch
Jonathan Gratch University of Southern California
Stacy Marsella
Stacy Marsella Northeastern University
William R. Swartout
William R. Swartout University of Southern California
Kenji Sagae
Kenji Sagae University of California, Davis
Louis-Philippe Morency
Louis-Philippe Morency Carnegie Mellon University
Albert Rizzo
Albert Rizzo University of Southern California
Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Shrikanth S. Narayanan University of Southern California
James F. Allen
James F. Allen University of Rochester
Panayiotis G. Georgiou
Panayiotis G. Georgiou University of Southern California

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