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D-Index
47
Citations
7958
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6554
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154

Dirk Hovy 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 Dirk Hovy sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 129 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dirk Hovy 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 Dirk Hovy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dirk Hovy is affiliated with Bocconi University in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. Their published works span a significant range of topics related to natural language processing, computational social science, and machine learning methodologies.

The main topics covered in Hovy's research include:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Computational and Text Analysis Methods

Hovy's recent papers include:

  • "Five sources of bias in natural language processing" (2021), published in Language and Linguistics Compass
  • "Learning from Disagreement: A Survey" (2021), published in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • "What the [MASK]? Making Sense of Language-Specific BERT Models" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "A Case for Soft Loss Functions" (2020), published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
  • "SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems" (2022), published in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Hovy include:

  • Paul Röttger
  • Debora Nozza
  • Federico Bianchi
  • Amanda Cercas Curry
  • Anne Lauscher

Common venues where Hovy publishes research are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Language and Linguistics Compass
  • Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Hovy has also authored books published by well-known academic publishers. These include:

  • "Text Analysis in Python for Social Scientists" (2020 and 2022 editions), published by Cambridge University Press
  • "Computational Sociolinguistics" (2023), published by Frontiers Media

Best Publications

  • Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter

    Zeerak Waseem;Dirk Hovy

  • The Social Impact of Natural Language Processing

    Dirk Hovy;Shannon L. Spruit

  • Predictive Biases in Natural Language Processing Models: A Conceptual Framework and Overview

    Deven Santosh Shah;H. Andrew Schwartz;Dirk Hovy

  • Learning Whom to Trust with MACE

    Dirk Hovy;Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick;Ashish Vaswani;Eduard Hovy

  • Five sources of bias in natural language processing

    Dirk Hovy;Shrimai Prabhumoye

  • Pre-training is a Hot Topic: Contextualized Document Embeddings Improve Topic Coherence

    Federico Bianchi;Silvia Terragni;Dirk Hovy

  • Learning from Disagreement: A Survey

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  • Personality Traits on Twitter—or—How to Get 1,500 Personality Tests in a Week

    Barbara Plank;Dirk Hovy

  • Demographic Factors Improve Classification Performance

    Dirk Hovy

  • Multitask learning for mental health conditions with limited social media data

    Adrian Benton;Margaret Mitchell;Dirk Hovy

  • Cross-lingual Contextualized Topic Models with Zero-shot Learning

    Federico Bianchi;Silvia Terragni;Dirk Hovy;Debora Nozza

  • Tagging Performance Correlates with Author Age

    Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

  • Two Contrasting Data Annotation Paradigms for Subjective NLP Tasks

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  • The Importance of Modeling Social Factors of Language: Theory and Practice

    Dirk Hovy;Diyi Yang

  • User Review Sites as a Resource for Large-Scale Sociolinguistic Studies

    Dirk Hovy;Anders Johannsen;Anders Søgaard

  • Learning part-of-speech taggers with inter-annotator agreement loss

    Barbara Plank;Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

  • What the [MASK]? Making Sense of Language-Specific BERT Models

    Debora Nozza;Federico Bianchi;Dirk Hovy

  • Cross-lingual syntactic variation over age and gender

    Anders Johannsen;Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

  • Linguistically debatable or just plain wrong

    Barbara Plank;Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

  • Multi-Task Learning for Mental Health using Social Media Text.

    Adrian Benton;Margaret Mitchell;Dirk Hovy

  • HONEST: Measuring Hurtful Sentence Completion in Language Models

    Debora Nozza;Federico Bianchi;Dirk Hovy

  • Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

    Yulia Tsvetkov;Nathan Schneider;Dirk Hovy;Archna Bhatia

  • We Need to Consider Disagreement in Evaluation

    Valerio Basile;Michael Fell;Tommaso Fornaciari;Dirk Hovy

  • Beyond Black & White: Leveraging Annotator Disagreement via Soft-Label Multi-Task Learning.

    Tommaso Fornaciari;Alexandra Uma;Silviu Paun;Barbara Plank

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Søgaard
Anders Søgaard University of Copenhagen
Barbara Plank
Barbara Plank Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Eduard Hovy
Eduard Hovy Carnegie Mellon University
Massimo Poesio
Massimo Poesio Queen Mary University of London
Fernando Vega-Redondo
Fernando Vega-Redondo Bocconi University
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell Hugging Face
Ashish Vaswani
Ashish Vaswani Google (United States)
Ole Winther
Ole Winther Technical University of Denmark
Chris Dyer
Chris Dyer Google (United States)
Yulia Tsvetkov
Yulia Tsvetkov University of Washington

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