2026 Maarten Sap: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Rising Stars	45	438	438	68	68	102	9848
Computer Science	35	11658	11325	4778	4571	129	5557

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Maarten Sap is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, particularly in artificial intelligence research. Their work spans several intersecting domains including natural language processing, ethics in AI, and safety research.

The scientist's recent publications include:

Annotators with Attitudes: How Annotator Beliefs And Identities Bias Toxic Language Detection (2022), Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Automating Moral Reasoning (Invited Paper) (2022), Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
Just Say No: Analyzing the Stance of Neural Dialogue Generation in Offensive Contexts (2021), Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Medical Hallucination in Foundation Models and Their Impact on Healthcare (2025), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Clever Hans or Neural Theory of Mind? Stress Testing Social Reasoning in Large Language Models (2023), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maarten Sap include:

Yejin Choi
Xuhui Zhou
Liwei Jiang
Noah A. Smith
Jena D. Hwang

The scientist commonly publishes in these venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society

Maarten Sap's main research fields and subfields are:

Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Safety Research
Sociology and Political Science
Cognitive Neuroscience
Information Systems

The primary topics covered in their work include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Misinformation and Its Impacts

Best Publications

COMET: Commonsense Transformers for Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction

Antoine Bosselut;Hannah Rashkin;Maarten Sap;Chaitanya Malaviya

856
Citations
The Risk of Racial Bias in Hate Speech Detection.

Maarten Sap;Dallas Card;Saadia Gabriel;Yejin Choi

743
Citations
ATOMIC: An Atlas of Machine Commonsense for If-Then Reasoning

Maarten Sap;Ronan Le Bras;Emily Allaway;Chandra Bhagavatula

718
Citations
Social IQa: Commonsense Reasoning about Social Interactions

Maarten Sap;Hannah Rashkin;Derek Chen;Ronan Le Bras

404
Citations
RealToxicityPrompts: Evaluating Neural Toxic Degeneration in Language Models

Samuel Gehman;Suchin Gururangan;Maarten Sap;Yejin Choi

388
Citations
Towards Assessing Changes in Degree of Depression through Facebook

H. Andrew Schwartz;Johannes Eichstaedt;Margaret L. Kern;Gregory Park

286
Citations
Social Bias Frames: Reasoning about Social and Power Implications of Language

Maarten Sap;Saadia Gabriel;Lianhui Qin;Dan Jurafsky

284
Citations
Developing Age and Gender Predictive Lexica over Social Media

Maarten Sap;Gregory Park;Johannes Eichstaedt;Margaret Kern

269
Citations
Gaining insights from social media language: Methodologies and challenges.

Margaret L Kern;Gregory Park;Johannes C Eichstaedt;H Andrew Schwartz

257
Citations
PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

H. Andrew Schwartz;Maarten Sap;Margaret L. Kern;Johannes C. Eichstaedt

197
Citations
The role of personality, age, and gender in tweeting about mental illness

Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro;Johannes Eichstaedt;Gregory Park;Maarten Sap

182
Citations
Event2Mind: Commonsense Inference on Events, Intents, and Reactions

Hannah Rashkin;Maarten Sap;Emily Allaway;Noah A. Smith

171
Citations
DExperts: Decoding-Time Controlled Text Generation with Experts and Anti-Experts

Alisa Liu;Maarten Sap;Ximing Lu;Swabha Swayamdipta

143
Citations
Documenting Large Webtext Corpora: A Case Study on the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus

Jesse Dodge;Maarten Sap;Ana Marasovic;William Agnew

141
Citations
Annotators with Attitudes: How Annotator Beliefs And Identities Bias Toxic Language Detection.

Maarten Sap;Swabha Swayamdipta;Laura Vianna;Xuhui Zhou

138
Citations
DLATK: Differential Language Analysis ToolKit

H. Andrew Schwartz;Salvatore Giorgi;Maarten Sap;Patrick Crutchley

133
Citations
Social Chemistry 101: Learning to Reason about Social and Moral Norms

Maxwell Forbes;Jena D. Hwang;Vered Shwartz;Maarten Sap

129
Citations
The Effect of Different Writing Tasks on Linguistic Style: A Case Study of the ROC Story Cloze Task

Roy Schwartz;Maarten Sap;Ioannis Konstas;Leila Zilles

123
Citations
Challenges in Automated Debiasing for Toxic Language Detection

Xuhui Zhou;Maarten Sap;Swabha Swayamdipta;Yejin Choi

115
Citations
Living in the Past, Present, and Future: Measuring Temporal Orientation With Language

Gregory Park;H. Andrew Schwartz;H. Andrew Schwartz;Maarten Sap;Margaret L. Kern

98
Citations
Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs

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96
Citations
Connotation Frames of Power and Agency in Modern Films

Maarten Sap;Marcella Cindy Prasettio;Ari Holtzman;Hannah Rashkin

88
Citations
Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs

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86
Citations
Commonsense Reasoning for Natural Language Processing.

Maarten Sap;Vered Shwartz;Antoine Bosselut;Yejin Choi

71
Citations
Delphi: Towards Machine Ethics and Norms

Liwei Jiang;Jena D. Hwang;Chandra Bhagavatula;Ronan Le Bras

70
Citations
Detoxifying Language Models Risks Marginalizing Minority Voices.

Albert Xu;Eshaan Pathak;Eric Wallace;Suchin Gururangan

68
Citations
ProsocialDialog: A Prosocial Backbone for Conversational Agents

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66
Citations
When to Make Exceptions: Exploring Language Models as Accounts of Human Moral Judgment

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64
Citations
The Role of Personality, Age and Gender in Tweeting about Mental Illnesses

Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro;Johannes Eichstaedt;Gregory Park;Maarten Sap

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yejin Choi Stanford University

Noah A. Smith University of Washington

Lyle H. Ungar University of Pennsylvania

H. Andrew Schwartz Stony Brook University

Johannes C. Eichstaedt Stanford University

Margaret L. Kern University of Melbourne

David Stillwell University of Cambridge

Michal Kosinski Stanford University

Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania

Asli Celikyilmaz Facebook (United States)

External Links

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