2026 Nianwen Xue: 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	41	8812	8562	3765	3616	131	7554

Overview

Nianwen Xue is affiliated with Brandeis University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Language and Linguistics.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

Natural Language Processing Techniques
Topic Modeling
Text Readability and Simplification
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Linguistics and Terminology Studies

Nianwen Xue has contributed to various publication venues with multiple works appearing in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
International Journal of Asian Language Processing

Among their recent publications are:

"Text classification and topic mining of intelligent forum comments in university MOOC based on CNN networks," 2025, International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering
"HumanEval-XL: A Multilingual Code Generation Benchmark for Cross-lingual Natural Language Generalization," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Designing a Uniform Meaning Representation for Natural Language Processing," 2021, KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
"Modal Dependency Parsing via Language Model Priming," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
"Transformer-GCRF: Recovering Chinese Dropped Pronouns with General Conditional Random Fields," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

In their research, Nianwen Xue has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

Nicoletta Calzolari
Min-Yen Kan
Véronique Hoste
Alessandro Lenci
Sakriani Sakti

Best Publications

CoNLL-2012 Shared Task: Modeling Multilingual Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes

Sameer Pradhan;Alessandro Moschitti;Nianwen Xue;Olga Uryupina

755
Citations
The CoNLL-2009 Shared Task: Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies in Multiple Languages

Jan Hajiċ;Massimiliano Ciaramita;Richard Johansson;Daisuke Kawahara

622
Citations
Chinese Word Segmentation as Character Tagging

Nianwen Xue

586
Citations
Calibrating Features for Semantic Role Labeling

Nianwen Xue;Martha Palmer

445
Citations
CoNLL-2011 Shared Task: Modeling Unrestricted Coreference in OntoNotes

Sameer Pradhan;Lance Ramshaw;Mitchell Marcus;Martha Palmer

391
Citations
Towards Robust Linguistic Analysis using OntoNotes

Sameer Pradhan;Sameer Pradhan;Alessandro Moschitti;Alessandro Moschitti;Nianwen Xue;Hwee Tou Ng

358
Citations
Labeling chinese predicates with semantic roles

Nianwen Xue

192
Citations
A Transition-based Algorithm for AMR Parsing

Chuan Wang;Nianwen Xue;Sameer Pradhan

191
Citations
Chinese Word Segmentation as LMR Tagging

Nianwen Xue;Libin Shen

187
Citations
Building a large-scale annotated Chinese corpus

Nianwen Xue;Fu-Dong Chiou;Martha Palmer

182
Citations
Developing Guidelines and Ensuring Consistency for Chinese Text Annotation

Fei Xia;Martha Palmer;Nianwen Xue;Mary Ellen Okurowski

160
Citations
The CoNLL-2015 Shared Task on Shallow Discourse Parsing

Nianwen Xue;Hwee Tou Ng;Sameer Pradhan;Rashmi Prasad

154
Citations
CoNLL 2016 Shared Task on Multilingual Shallow Discourse Parsing

Nianwen Xue;Hwee Tou Ng;Sameer Pradhan;Attapol Rutherford

141
Citations
Automatic semantic role labeling for Chinese verbs

Nianwen Xue;Martha Palmer

139
Citations
Adding semantic roles to the chinese treebank

Nianwen Xue;Martha Palmer

135
Citations
OntoNotes Release 5.0

Ralph Weischedel;Martha Palmer;Mitchell Marcus;Eduard Hovy

135
Citations
PDTB-style Discourse Annotation of Chinese Text

Yuping Zhou;Nianwen Xue

131
Citations
Discovering Implicit Discourse Relations Through Brown Cluster Pair Representation and Coreference Patterns

Attapol Rutherford;Nianwen Xue

131
Citations
A corpus of full-text journal articles is a robust evaluation tool for revealing differences in performance of biomedical natural language processing tools

Karin Verspoor;Kevin Bretonnel Cohen;Arrick Lanfranchi;Colin Warner

126
Citations
Annotating the Propositions in the Penn Chinese Treebank

Nianwen Xue;Martha Palmer

118
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha Palmer University of Colorado Boulder

Sameer Pradhan Vassar College

Stephan Oepen University of Oslo

Jan Hajič Charles University

Chu-Ren Huang Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jun Xu Renmin University of China

Alessandro Moschitti Amazon (United States)

Aravind K. Joshi University of Pennsylvania

Joakim Nivre Uppsala University

Johan Bos University of Groningen

External Links

Personal website of Nianwen Xue Google Scholar page

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