2026 Kevin Knight: 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	84	850	820	465	446	270	29174

Overview

Kevin Knight is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans interdisciplinary fields including Computer Science, Medicine, and Psychology, with a significant focus on artificial intelligence and health-related topics.

The principal fields of study in their work are:

Computer Science
Medicine
Psychology

The scientist's subfields of expertise include:

Artificial Intelligence
General Health Professions
Clinical Psychology
Epidemiology
Sociology and Political Science

Kevin Knight's research topics cover a range of social and health-related issues. These include:

HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Natural Language Processing Techniques
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
Homelessness and Social Issues
Topic Modeling
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

The scientist has published frequently in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Substance Use & Misuse
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation
Frontiers in Psychology

Recent papers from Kevin Knight include:

"Linking criminal justice-involved individuals to HIV, Hepatitis C, and opioid use disorder prevention and treatment services upon release to the community: Progress, gaps, and future directions" (2021) published in International Journal of Drug Policy
"Preventing opioid use among justice-involved youth as they transition to adulthood: leveraging safe adults (LeSA)" (2021) published in BMC Public Health
"Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial comparing two linkage models for HIV prevention and treatment in justice-involved persons" (2022) published in BMC Infectious Diseases
"Justice community opioid innovation network (JCOIN): The TCU research hub" (2021) published in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
"The Role of Personality Functioning on Early Drop out in Outpatient Substance Misuse Treatment" (2021) published in Substance Use & Misuse

Frequent co-authors working alongside Kevin Knight include:

Thomas B. Sease
Amanda L. Wiese
Wayne E. K. Lehman
Jennifer E. Becan
Jennifer Pankow

Best Publications

Machine transliteration

Kevin Knight;Jonathan Graehl

2030
Citations
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Kevin Knight;Ani Nenkova;Owen Rambow

1529
Citations
Abstract Meaning Representation for Sembanking

Laura Banarescu;Claire Bonial;Shu Cai;Madalina Georgescu

1307
Citations
A Syntax-based Statistical Translation Model

Kenji Yamada;Kevin Knight

1085
Citations
Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Barret Zoph;Deniz Yuret;Jonathan May;Kevin Knight

871
Citations
Summarization beyond sentence extraction: a probabilistic approach to sentence compression

Kevin Knight;Daniel Marcu

659
Citations
What’s in a translation rule?

Michel Galley;Mark Hopkins;Kevin Knight;Daniel Marcu

642
Citations
Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge

Irene Langkilde;Kevin Knight

607
Citations
Statistics-Based Summarization - Step One: Sentence Compression

Kevin Knight;Daniel Marcu

594
Citations
Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Translation Models

Michel Galley;Jonathan Graehl;Kevin Knight;Daniel Marcu

547
Citations
Building a large-scale knowledge base for machine translation

Kevin Knight;Steve K. Luk

508
Citations
Unification: a multidisciplinary survey

Kevin Knight

479
Citations
Statistical machine translation

Kevin Knight;Philipp Koehn

449
Citations
Decoding complexity in word-replacement translation models

Kevin Knight

420
Citations
Empirical methods for compound splitting

Philipp Koehn;Kevin Knight

412
Citations
Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages

Xiaoman Pan;Boliang Zhang;Jonathan May;Joel Nothman

373
Citations
Fast and optimal decoding for machine translation

Ulrich Germann;Michael Jahr;Kevin Knight;Daniel Marcu

372
Citations
Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling

Lili Yao;Nanyun Peng;Ralph M. Weischedel;Kevin Knight

342
Citations
Does String-Based Neural MT Learn Source Syntax?

Xing Shi;Inkit Padhi;Kevin Knight

327
Citations
Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation

Ulrich Germann;Michael Jahr;Kevin Knight;Daniel Marcu

326
Citations
Smatch: an Evaluation Metric for Semantic Feature Structures

Shu Cai;Kevin Knight

292
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Marcu University of Southern California

Heng Ji University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Philipp Koehn Johns Hopkins University

Ashish Vaswani Google (United States)

Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou Columbia University

David Chiang University of Notre Dame

Barret Zoph Google (United States)

Eduard Hovy Carnegie Mellon University

Liang Huang Oregon State University

Panayiotis G. Georgiou University of Southern California

External Links

Personal website of Kevin Knight Google Scholar page

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