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Peter D. Turney

Peter D. Turney

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Computer Science

D-Index
44
Citations
24888
World Ranking
7350
National Ranking
3200

Overview

Peter D. Turney is affiliated with the Ronin Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science. They have contributed to multiple subfields including management science and operations research, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and computational theory and mathematics.

Turney's scholarly work concentrates on evolutionary game theory, cooperation, and game theory applications. Their research themes extend into digital games and media, evolutionary and genetic dynamics, plant and animal studies, cellular automata and their applications, and advanced materials and mechanics.

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Cellular Automata and Applications
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics

They have published their work primarily through the arXiv platform associated with Cornell University, where their contributions include multiple recent papers:

  • Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution in Immigration Games, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Evolution of Symbiosis in the Game of Life: Three Characteristics of Successful Symbiotes, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Evolution of Spots and Stripes in Cellular Automata, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Turney's research outputs reflect an interdisciplinary approach that intersects computational models and evolutionary dynamics applied to social and biological contexts. The use of cellular automata and immigration games suggests a focus on complex systems and evolutionary processes in both natural and artificial environments.

No frequent co-authors have been listed, indicating a possible preference for solo research or a broad collaborative network without repeated partnerships. Their consistent publication in arXiv indicates a commitment to open-access dissemination of scientific knowledge.

Their expertise covers notable areas within the broader landscape of social sciences with interdisciplinary reach into computational and biological disciplines, contributing knowledge on evolutionary strategies, symbiosis, and spatial pattern formation through computational simulation methods.

Best Publications

  • From frequency to meaning: vector space models of semantics

    Peter D. Turney;Patrick Pantel

  • Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to Unsupervised Classification of Reviews

    Peter Turney

  • CROWDSOURCING A WORD–EMOTION ASSOCIATION LEXICON

    Saif M. Mohammad;Peter D. Turney

  • Measuring praise and criticism: Inference of semantic orientation from association

    Peter D. Turney;Michael L. Littman

  • Mining the web for synonyms: PMI-IR versus LSA on TOEFL

    Peter D. Turney

  • Learning Algorithms for Keyphrase Extraction

    Peter D. Turney

  • Emotions Evoked by Common Words and Phrases: Using Mechanical Turk to Create an Emotion Lexicon

    Saif Mohammad;Peter Turney

  • Cost-sensitive classification: empirical evaluation of a hybrid genetic decision tree induction algorithm

    Peter D. Turney

  • Similarity of Semantic Relations

    Peter D. Turney

  • Types of cost in inductive concept learning

    Peter D. Turney

  • Unsupervised Learning of Semantic Orientation from a Hundred-Billion-Word Corpus

    Peter D. Turney;Michael L. Littman

  • Learning to Extract Keyphrases from Text

    Peter D. Turney

  • Literal and Metaphorical Sense Identification through Concrete and Abstract Context

    Peter Turney;Yair Neuman;Dan Assaf;Yohai Cohen

  • Unsupervised named-entity recognition: generating gazetteers and resolving ambiguity

    David Nadeau;Peter D. Turney;Stan Matwin

  • Measuring academic influence: Not all citations are equal

    Xiaodan Zhu;Peter D. Turney;Daniel Lemire;André Vellino

  • Coherent keyphrase extraction via web mining

    Peter D. Turney

  • A Uniform Approach to Analogies, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Associations

    Peter Turney

  • SemEval-2007 Task 04: Classification of Semantic Relations between Nominals

    Roxana Girju;Preslav Nakov;Vivi Nastase;Stan Szpakowicz

  • Method and apparatus for automatically identifying keywords within a document

    Peter D. Turney

  • Domain and function: a dual-space model of semantic relations and compositions

    Peter D. Turney

  • Corpus-based Learning of Analogies and Semantic Relations

    Peter D. Turney;Michael L. Littman

Frequent Co-Authors

Saif M. Mohammad
Saif M. Mohammad National Research Council Canada
Michael L. Littman
Michael L. Littman Brown University
Nada Lavrač
Nada Lavrač Jozef Stefan Institute
Preslav Nakov
Preslav Nakov Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Stan Szpakowicz
Stan Szpakowicz University of Ottawa
Eduard Hovy
Eduard Hovy Carnegie Mellon University
Graeme Hirst
Graeme Hirst University of Toronto
Xiaodan Zhu
Xiaodan Zhu Queen's University
Bonnie J. Dorr
Bonnie J. Dorr University of Florida
Stan Matwin
Stan Matwin Dalhousie University

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