2026 Sharon Goldwater: 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	50	5504	5350	328	324	161	14373

Sharon Goldwater 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 Sharon Goldwater sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 161 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sharon Goldwater 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 Sharon Goldwater sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sharon Goldwater is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Human-Computer Interaction.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, among which are:

Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Topic Modeling
Language Development and Disorders
Music and Audio Processing
Speech and Audio Processing
Phonetics and Phonology Research

Sharon Goldwater has contributed to various publication venues. Most frequently, their work appears in arXiv (Cornell University). They also have publications in:

Language Resources and Evaluation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Open Mind
ACM Transactions on Social Computing

The scientist maintains active collaborative relationships with frequent co-authors, including Walid Magdy, Yevgen Matusevych, Herman Kamper, Naomi H. Feldman, and Alexander Robertson.

Significant recent papers by Sharon Goldwater include:

Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories: Insights from large-scale simulations on realistic input (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Do Infants Really Learn Phonetic Categories? (2021, Open Mind)
Emoji Skin Tone Modifiers (2020, ACM Transactions on Social Computing)
Black or White but Never Neutral: How Readers Perceive Identity from Yellow or Skin-toned Emoji (2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction)
Infant Phonetic Learning as Perceptual Space Learning: A Crosslinguistic Evaluation of Computational Models (2023, Cognitive Science)

Best Publications

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics

Sharon Goldwater;Tom Griffiths

2006
Citations
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Christos Christodoulopoulos;Sharon Goldwater;Mark Steedman

1114
Citations
A Bayesian framework for word segmentation: Exploring the effects of context

Sharon Goldwater;Thomas L. Griffiths;Mark Johnson

569
Citations
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Christos Christodoulopoulos;Sharon Goldwater;Mark Steedman

563
Citations
Learning OT constraint rankings using a maximum entropy model

Sharon Goldwater;Mark Johnson

560
Citations
A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging

Sharon Goldwater;Tom Griffiths

416
Citations
Inducing Probabilistic CCG Grammars from Logical Form with Higher-Order Unification

Tom Kwiatkowksi;Luke Zettlemoyer;Sharon Goldwater;Mark Steedman

355
Citations
Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Mark Johnson;Thomas Griffiths;Sharon Goldwater

341
Citations
Adaptor Grammars: A Framework for Specifying Compositional Nonparametric Bayesian Models

Mark Johnson;Thomas L. Griffiths;Sharon Goldwater

336
Citations
Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation

Sharon Goldwater;Thomas L. Griffiths;Mark Johnson

311
Citations
Interpolating between types and tokens by estimating power-law generators

Sharon Goldwater;Mark Johnson;Thomas L. Griffiths

285
Citations
Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing

Tom Kwiatkowski;Luke Zettlemoyer;Sharon Goldwater;Mark Steedman

257
Citations
Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis

Sharon Goldwater;David McClosky

247
Citations
A Role for the Developing Lexicon in Phonetic Category Acquisition

Naomi H. Feldman;Thomas L. Griffiths;Sharon Goldwater;James L. Morgan

246
Citations
Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation

Michael C. Frank;Sharon Goldwater;Thomas L. Griffiths;Joshua B. Tenenbaum

235
Citations
Which words are hard to recognize? Prosodic, lexical, and disfluency factors that increase speech recognition error rates

Sharon Goldwater;Daniel Jurafsky;Christopher D. Manning

216
Citations
Two Decades of Unsupervised POS Induction: How Far Have We Come?

Christos Christodoulopoulos;Sharon Goldwater;Mark Steedman

179
Citations
Pre-training on high-resource speech recognition improves low-resource speech-to-text translation

Sameer Bansal;Herman Kamper;Karen Livescu;Adam Lopez

174
Citations
Improving nonparameteric Bayesian inference: experiments on unsupervised word segmentation with adaptor grammars

Mark Johnson;Sharon Goldwater

156
Citations
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Bevan Jones;Mark Johnson;Sharon Goldwater

114
Citations
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Trevor Cohn;Sharon Goldwater;Phil Blunsom

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Johnson Macquarie University

Mark Steedman University of Edinburgh

Thomas L. Griffiths Princeton University

Aren Jansen Google (United States)

Phil Blunsom University of Oxford

Karen Livescu Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Trevor Cohn University of Melbourne

Walid Magdy University of Edinburgh

Frank Keller University of Edinburgh

Michael C. Frank Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Sharon Goldwater Google Scholar page

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