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8214
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Ronald M. Kaplan publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ronald M. Kaplan sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 133 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Ronald M. Kaplan D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ronald M. Kaplan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - ACM Fellow For their pioneering work in programming environments that integrated source-language debuggers, fully compatible integrated interpreter/compiler, automatic change management, structure-based editing, logging facilities, interactive graphics, and analysi
  • 1992 - ACM Software System Award Daniel G. Bobrow, Richard R. Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald M. Kaplan, Larry Masinter, Warren Teitelman

Overview

Ronald M. Kaplan is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a strong emphasis on computer science, particularly in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. Kaplan's work intersects with both arts and humanities, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach.

The main areas of study covered by Kaplan include natural language processing techniques and syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation. Additional topics addressed in their research include topic modeling, speech and dialogue systems, semigroups and automata theory, and chemical synthesis and analysis. This variety indicates a broad engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects of computational studies and linguistics.

Kaplan has published extensively in the venue Computational Linguistics, where several of their recent papers have appeared. Notable publications include:

  • Tractable Lexical-Functional Grammar, 2020, Computational Linguistics
  • Obituary: Martin Kay, 2021, Computational Linguistics
  • LFG Generation from Acyclic F-Structures is NP-Hard, 2021, Computational Linguistics

Their frequent co-authors are Jürgen Wedekind, Hans Uszkoreit, and Joan Bresnan, with multiple collaborations on recent publications. This co-authorship includes work primarily with Wedekind, who has collaborated on two of the listed recent papers.

Kaplan's recognition within the academic and computing communities is evidenced by awards such as the ACM Fellow distinction received in 1994, awarded for pioneering work in programming environments involving source-language debuggers, integrated interpreter/compiler systems, and interactive graphics. Earlier, Kaplan was part of a team awarded the ACM Software System Award in 1992, acknowledging contributions to software system development.

Best Publications

  • Lexical Functional Grammar A Formal System for Grammatical Representation

    Ronald M Kaplan

  • Regular models of phonological rule systems

    Ronald M. Kaplan;Martin Kay

  • GUS, a frame driven dialog system

    D Bobrow

  • Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch

    Joan Bresnan;Ronald M. Kaplan;Stanley Peters;Annie Zaenen

  • Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques

    Stefan Riezler;Tracy H. King;Ronald M. Kaplan;Richard Crouch

  • Two-level morphology with composition

    Lauri Karttunen;Ronald M. Kaplan;Annie Zaenen

  • Finite-state transduction of related word forms for text indexing and retrieval

    Douglass R. Cutting;Per-Kristian G. Halvorsen;Ronald M. Kaplan;Lauri Karttunen

  • The interface between phrasal and functional constraints

    John T. Maxwell;Ronald M. Kaplan

  • Feature Indeterminacy and Feature Resolution.

    Mary Dalrymple;Ronald M. Kaplan

  • Formal issues in lexical-functional grammar

    Kim Honeyford;Mary Dalrymple;Ronald M. Kaplan;John T. Maxwell

  • Augmented transition networks as psychological models of sentence comprehension

    Ronald M. Kaplan

  • The PARC 700 Dependency Bank

    Tracy Holloway King;Richard S. Crouch;Stefan Riezler;Mary Dalrymple

  • Compact encoding of multi-lingual translation dictionaries

    Ronald M. Kaplan;Atty T. Mullins

  • Translation by structural correspondences

    Ronald M. Kaplan;Klaus Netter;Jürgen Wedekind;Annie Zaenen

  • Method and apparatus for supplementing significant portions of a document selected without document image decoding with retrieved information

    M. Margaret Withgott;William Newman;Steven C. Bagley;Daniel P. Huttenlocher

  • The Formal Architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar.

    Ronald M. Kaplan

  • Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing

    Ronald M. Kaplan;Stefan Riezler;Tracy Holloway King;John T. Maxwell

  • SYSTEM FOR USING AND GENERATING USER INTEREST REFLECTION TYPE SEARCH RESULT DESIGNATOR

    Daniel G Boburo;Kaplan Ronald M

  • Method and apparatus for determining the frequency of words in a document without document image decoding

    Todd A. Cass;Daniel P. Huttenlocher;Per-Kristian Halvorsen;M. Margaret Withgott

  • Method and apparatus for tokenizing text

    Ronald M. Kaplan

  • Projections and Semantic Description in Lexical-Functional Grammar.

    Per-Kristian Halvorsen;Ronald M. Kaplan

Frequent Co-Authors

Tracy Holloway King
Tracy Holloway King Adobe Systems (United States)
Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel G. Bobrow Palo Alto Research Center
Lauri Karttunen
Lauri Karttunen Stanford University
Mary Dalrymple
Mary Dalrymple University of Oxford
Stefan Riezler
Stefan Riezler Heidelberg University
Rens Bod
Rens Bod University of Amsterdam
John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown Palo Alto Research Center
Jan O. Pedersen
Jan O. Pedersen Microsoft (United States)

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