2026 David Traum: 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	61	3071	2980	1501	1444	317	14996

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

676
Citations
A Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversation

David Rood Traum

605
Citations
SimSensei kiosk: a virtual human interviewer for healthcare decision support

David DeVault;Ron Artstein;Grace Benn;Teresa Dey

553
Citations
The role of grounding in collaborative learning tasks

Michael Baker;Tia Hansen;Richard Joiner;David Traum

525
Citations
Towards a Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversation

Unknown

481
Citations
The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management

David R. Traum;Staffan Larsson

450
Citations
The TRAINS Project: A Case Study in Defining a Conversational Planning Agent

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

428
Citations
The Distress Analysis Interview Corpus of human and computer interviews

Jonathan Gratch;Ron Artstein;Gale Lucas;Giota stratou

424
Citations
Conversation Acts in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue

David R. Traum;Elizabeth A. Hinkelman

378
Citations
Sharing Solutions: Persistence and Grounding in Multimodal Collaborative Problem Solving

Pierre Dillenbourg;David Traum

364
Citations
Embodied agents for multi-party dialogue in immersive virtual worlds

David Traum;Jeff Rickel

336
Citations
Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing

David R. Traum;James F. Allen

324
Citations
Toward virtual humans

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

316
Citations
Toward a new generation of virtual humans for interactive experiences

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

302
Citations
Conversational Actions and Discourse Situations

Massimo Poesio;David R. Traum

294
Citations
Learning by explaining to oneself and to others.

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

256
Citations
Towards an ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation

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

242
Citations
All Together Now

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

234
Citations
Ada and grace: toward realistic and engaging virtual museum guides

William Swartout;David Traum;Ron Artstein;Dan Noren

230
Citations
All Together Now: Introducing the Virtual Human Toolkit

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

204
Citations
Multi-party, Multi-issue, Multi-strategy Negotiation for Multi-modal Virtual Agents

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

193
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Gratch University of Southern California

Stacy Marsella Northeastern University

William R. Swartout University of Southern California

Kenji Sagae University of California, Davis

Louis-Philippe Morency Carnegie Mellon University

Albert Rizzo University of Southern California

Shrikanth S. Narayanan University of Southern California

James F. Allen University of Rochester

Panayiotis G. Georgiou University of Southern California

Stefan Scherer Meta

External Links

Personal website of David Traum Google Scholar page

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