2026 Steven Bethard: 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	48	6018	5845	2707	2609	176	17764

Overview

Steven Bethard is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Computer Science. Within this broad domain, their work extensively covers subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Molecular Biology, Sociology and Political Science, and Information Systems.

Their research focuses on a variety of topics including:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Social Media and Politics
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning

Steven Bethard has contributed to several recent academic papers. Notable publications include:

"Does BERT need domain adaptation for clinical negation detection?" (2020), published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
"Rethinking domain adaptation for machine learning over clinical language" (2020), published in JAMIA Open
"Unified Medical Language System resources improve sieve-based generation and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)-based ranking for concept normalization" (2020), published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
"Toward NEPA performance: A framework for assessing EIAs" (2022), published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review
"A Comparison of Strategies for Source-Free Domain Adaptation" (2022), published in the Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Common co-authors with whom Steven Bethard frequently collaborates include:

Xin Su
Egoitz Laparra
Guergana Savova
Timothy A. Miller
Stephen A. Rains

Their work has been published in several venues multiple times. Frequent publication outlets include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
JAMIA Open

Best Publications

The Stanford CoreNLP Natural Language Processing Toolkit

Christopher Manning;Mihai Surdeanu;John Bauer;Jenny Finkel

8725
Citations
A Survey on Recent Advances in Named Entity Recognition from Deep Learning models

Vikas Yadav;Steven Bethard

542
Citations
A survey on the application of recurrent neural networks to statistical language modeling

Wim De Mulder;Steven Bethard;Marie-Francine Moens

357
Citations
How Good Are Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs? A Large Scale Evaluation

Elie Bursztein;Steven Bethard;Celine Fabry;John C. Mitchell

339
Citations
Proceedings of The 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

Marianna Apidianaki;Saif M. Mohammad;Jonathan May;Ekaterina Shutova

307
Citations
Automatic Extraction of Opinion Propositions and their Holders

Steven Bethard;Hong Yu;Ashley Thornton;Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou

286
Citations
Overview for the First Shared Task on Language Identification in Code-Switched Data

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260
Citations
SemEval-2016 Task 12: Clinical TempEval

Steven Bethard;Guergana Savova;Wei-Te Chen;Leon Derczynski

237
Citations
Overview for the First Shared Task on Language Identification in Code-Switched Data

Thamar Solorio;Elizabeth Blair;Suraj Maharjan;Steven Bethard

230
Citations
Not All Character N-grams Are Created Equal: A Study in Authorship Attribution

Upendra Sapkota;Steven Bethard;Manuel Montes;Thamar Solorio

217
Citations
Temporal Annotation in the Clinical Domain

William F. Styler;Steven Bethard;Sean Finan;Martha Palmer

213
Citations
Dense Event Ordering with a Multi-Pass Architecture

Nathanael Chambers;Taylor Cassidy;Bill McDowell;Steven Bethard

201
Citations
Crowdsourcing and language studies: the new generation of linguistic data

Robert Munro;Steven Bethard;Victor Kuperman;Vicky Tzuyin Lai

197
Citations
SemEval-2015 Task 6: Clinical TempEval

Steven Bethard;Leon Derczynski;Guergana Savova;James Pustejovsky

186
Citations
Who should I cite: learning literature search models from citation behavior

Steven Bethard;Dan Jurafsky

186
Citations
DLS$@$CU: Sentence Similarity from Word Alignment and Semantic Vector Composition

Arafat Sultan;Steven Bethard;Tamara Sumner

165
Citations
An Annotation Framework for Dense Event Ordering

Taylor Cassidy;Bill McDowell;Nathanael Chambers;Steven Bethard

157
Citations
ClearTK-TimeML: A minimalist approach to TempEval 2013

Steven Bethard

156
Citations
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

David Yarowsky;Timothy Baldwin;Anna Korhonen;Karen Livescu

151
Citations
Normalization and standardization of electronic health records for high-throughput phenotyping: the SHARPn consortium

Jyotishman D Pathak;Kent R Bailey;Calvin E. Beebe;Steven Bethard

149
Citations
Back to Basics for Monolingual Alignment: Exploiting Word Similarity and Contextual Evidence

Arafat Sultan;Steven Bethard;Tamara Sumner

145
Citations
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)

Steven Bethard;Marine Carpuat;Marianna Apidianaki;Saif M. Mohammad

128
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Guergana Savova Harvard University

James H. Martin University of Colorado Boulder

Marie-Francine Moens KU Leuven

Mihai Surdeanu University of Arizona

Thamar Solorio Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Dan Jurafsky Stanford University

Martha Palmer University of Colorado Boulder

James Pustejovsky Brandeis University

Sameer Pradhan Vassar College

Ted Pedersen University of Minnesota

External Links

Personal website of Steven Bethard Google Scholar page

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