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Janet B. Pierrehumbert

Janet B. Pierrehumbert

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
26925
World Ranking
3028
National Ranking
515

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Janet B. Pierrehumbert is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their body of research focuses primarily on the fields of computer science and social sciences. Within these areas, the main subfields of study include artificial intelligence, communication, cultural studies, sociology and political science, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Their work encompasses several key topics, particularly in natural language processing techniques, topic modeling, social media and politics, language and cultural evolution, text readability and simplification, misinformation and its impacts, and opinion dynamics and social influence.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Pierrehumbert include:

  • Valentin Hofmann (12 publications)
  • Hinrich Schütze (10 publications)
  • Felix Drinkall (6 publications)
  • Stefan Zohren (6 publications)
  • Jennifer Hay (5 publications)

Pierrehumbert's articles have appeared in various academic venues, with multiple publications in arXiv (Cornell University) totaling 18 papers. Other significant publication venues include:

  • Language (3 publications)
  • Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (2 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (1 publication)

A selection of recent papers authored or coauthored by Pierrehumbert includes:

  • "The Reddit Politosphere: A Large-Scale Text and Network Resource of Online Political Discourse," 2022, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Two Contrasting Data Annotation Paradigms for Subjective NLP Tasks," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  • "Morphological convergence as on-line lexical analogy," 2020, Language
  • "Forecasting COVID-19 Caseloads Using Unsupervised Embedding Clusters of Social Media Posts," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
  • "Modeling Ideological Salience and Framing in Polarized Online Groups with Graph Neural Networks and Structured Sparsity," 2022, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022

Throughout their career, Pierrehumbert has received several recognitions, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2019, fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded in 2004, and fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1996.

Best Publications

  • The phonology and phonetics of English intonation

    Janet Breckenridge Pierrehumbert

  • The meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse

    Janet Pierrehumbert;Julia Bell Hirschberg

  • Japanese Tone Structure

    Janet Breckenridge Pierrehumbert;Mary E. Beckman

  • Exemplar dynamics: Word frequency, lenition and contrast

    Janet B. Pierrehumbert

  • Intonational structure in Japanese and English

    Mary E. Beckman;Janet B. Pierrehumbert

  • TOBI: a standard for labeling English prosody.

    Kim E. A. Silverman;Mary E. Beckman;John F. Pitrelli;Mari Ostendorf

  • Word-specific phonetics

    Janet B. Pierrehumbert

  • SIMILARITY AVOIDANCE AND THE OCP

    Stefan A. Frisch;Janet B. Pierrehumbert;Michael B. Broe

  • Phonetic diversity, statistical learning, and acquisition of phonology

    Janet B. Pierrehumbert

  • Phonological and phonetic representation

    Janet Pierrehumbert

  • The perception of fundamental frequency declination

    Janet Pierrehumbert

  • THE INTONATIONAL STRUCTURING OF DISCOURSE

    Julia Hirschberg;Janet Pierrehumbert

  • Gesture, Segment, Prosody: Lenition of |h| and glottal stop

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  • The next toolkit

    Janet B. Pierrehumbert

  • Stochastic phonological grammars and acceptability

    John Coleman;Janet B. Pierrehumbert

  • Categories of tonal alignment in English.

    Janet B. Pierrehumbert;Shirley A. Steele

  • The timing of prenuclear high accents in English

    Kim E. A. Silverman;Janet B. Pierrehumbert

  • Autosegmental and metrical phonology

    Janet Pierrehumbert

  • Dissimilarity in the Arabic Verbal Roots

    Janet Pierrehumbert

  • Building social cognitive models of language change.

    Daniel J. Hruschka;Daniel J. Hruschka;Morten H. Christiansen;Morten H. Christiansen;Richard A. Blythe;William Croft

  • The influence of sexual orientation on vowel production (L)

    Janet B. Pierrehumbert;Tessa Bent;Benjamin Munson;Ann R. Bradlow

  • HateCheck: Functional Tests for Hate Speech Detection Models

    Paul Rottger;Bertie Vidgen;Dong Nguyen;Zeerak Waseem

  • Japanese Tone Structure

    Timothy J. Vance;Janet B. Pierrehumbert;Mary E. Beckman

  • Teun A. van Dijk. Text and context: explorations in the semantics and pragmatics of discourse . (Longman linguistics library, 21.) London: Longman, 1977. Pp. xvii+261.

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Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Hay
Jennifer Hay University of Canterbury
Sheila E. Blumstein
Sheila E. Blumstein Brown University
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Ann R. Bradlow
Ann R. Bradlow Northwestern University
Patrick C. M. Wong
Patrick C. M. Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos Northwestern University
Carol A. Fowler
Carol A. Fowler University of Connecticut
Kenneth J. Zucker
Kenneth J. Zucker University of Toronto
J. Michael Bailey
J. Michael Bailey Northwestern University
William Croft
William Croft University of New Mexico

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