2026 Eric Nyberg: 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	40	9242	8975	3935	3772	180	7528

Overview

Eric Nyberg is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States and has a research focus within the broader field of computer science, particularly artificial intelligence. Their scholarly output comprises 77 publications, with specializations spanning artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, automotive engineering, signal processing, and control and systems engineering.

Their research topics include:

Topic Modeling
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Traffic control and management

Eric Nyberg's recent published papers demonstrate a focus on question answering systems, multimodal control, commonsense reasoning, and educational domain applications. Selected publications include:

"Knowledge-driven Data Construction for Zero-shot Evaluation in Commonsense Question Answering" (2021), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Open Domain Question Answering with A Unified Knowledge Interface" (2022), Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
"Learn-to-Race: A Multimodal Control Environment for Autonomous Racing" (2021), 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
"Towards Automated Generation and Evaluation of Questions in Educational Domains" (2022), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
"Exploring Strategies for Generalizable Commonsense Reasoning with Pre-trained Models" (2021), Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Their frequent coauthors include Jonathan Francis, Kaixin Ma, Alessandro Oltramari, Bingqing Chen, and Jean Oh.

Eric Nyberg has published one book with Springer International Publishing titled "Magnesium 2021" (2021).

Their preferred publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project

David A. Ferrucci;Eric W. Brown;Jennifer Chu-Carroll;James Fan

2094
Citations
Integrated authoring and translation system

Peggy M Anderson;Kathryn L Baker;Michael M Bauer;Nicholas D Brownlow

392
Citations
A Long Short-Term Memory Model for Answer Sentence Selection in Question Answering

Di Wang;Eric Nyberg

345
Citations
Natural language processing system and method for parsing a plurality of input symbol sequences into syntactically or pragmatically correct word messages

Bruce R. Baker;Eric H. Nyberg

274
Citations
Metaphor Detection with Cross-Lingual Model Transfer

Yulia Tsvetkov;Leonid Boytsov;Anatole Gershman;Eric Nyberg

258
Citations
The KANT system: fast, accurate, high-quality translation in practical domains

Eric H. Nyberg;Teruko Mitamura

161
Citations
Shakespearizing Modern Language Using Copy-Enriched Sequence to Sequence Models

Harsh Jhamtani;Varun Gangal;Eduard H. Hovy;Eric Nyberg

159
Citations
An Efficient Interlingua Translation System for Multi-lingual Document Production

Teruko Mitamura;Eric H. Nyberg;Jaime G. Carbonell

158
Citations
Dynamic keyboard and method for dynamically redefining keys on a keyboard

Bruce R. Baker;Brian Yoder;David Hershberger;Barry Romich

134
Citations
Structured retrieval for question answering

Matthew W. Bilotti;Paul Ogilvie;Jamie Callan;Eric Nyberg

126
Citations
Controlled English for Knowledge-Based MT: Experience with the KANT System

Teruko Mitamura;Eric H. Nyberg

123
Citations
The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2002

Eric Nyberg;Teruko Mitamura;Jaime G. Carbonell;James P. Callan

110
Citations
SEMANTIC EXTENSIONS OF THE EPHYRA QA SYSTEM FOR TREC 2007

Nico Schlaefer;Jeongwoo Ko;Justin Betteridge;Manas A. Pathak

97
Citations
Controlled Language for Multilingual Document Production: Experience with Caterpillar Technical English 1

Christine Kamprath;Eric Adolphson;Teruko Mitamura;Eric Nyberg

96
Citations
A probabilistic graphical model for joint answer ranking in question answering

Jeongwoo Ko;Eric Nyberg;Luo Si

92
Citations
Steering Output Style and Topic in Neural Response Generation

Di Wang;Nebojsa Jojic;Chris Brockett;Eric Nyberg

86
Citations
Overview of the NTCIR-7 ACLIA Tasks: Advanced Cross-Lingual Information Access

Teruko Mitamura;Eric Nyberg;Hideki Shima;Tsuneaki Kato

84
Citations
The JAVELIN Question-Answering System at TREC 2003: A Multi-Strategy Approach with Dynamic Planning

Eric H. Nyberg;Teruko Mitamura

81
Citations
Knowledge-driven Data Construction for Zero-shot Evaluation in Commonsense Question Answering

Kaixin Ma;Filip Ilievski;Jonathan Francis;Yonatan Bisk

77
Citations
Overview of the NTCIR-7 ACLIA IR4QA Task

Tetsuya Sakai;Noriko Kando;Chuan-Jie Lin;Teruko Mitamura

76
Citations
Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering

Richard C. Wang;Nico Schlaefer;William W. Cohen;Eric Nyberg

74
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Teruko Mitamura Carnegie Mellon University

Jaime G. Carbonell Carnegie Mellon University

Bruce M. McLaren Carnegie Mellon University

Florian Metze Carnegie Mellon University

Bhiksha Raj Carnegie Mellon University

Richard M. Stern Carnegie Mellon University

Alan W. Black Carnegie Mellon University

Luo Si Alibaba Group (China)

Alexander G. Hauptmann Carnegie Mellon University

Eduard Hovy Carnegie Mellon University

External Links

Personal website of Eric Nyberg Google Scholar page

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