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Alan Ritter

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Information Extraction Weakly Supervised Learning Social Media Mining For Cybersecurity Automated Vulnerability Detection
Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing

About

Alan Ritter is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. His research interests include natural language processing, information extraction, and machine learning. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Washington and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. His research aims to solve challenging technical problems that can help machines learn to read vast quantities of text with minimal supervision. In a recent project, covered by WIRED, his group built a system that reads millions of tweets for mentions of new software vulnerabilities. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and an Amazon Research Award.

Research Performance Summary

125
Total Papers
15441
Total Citations
41
H-Index
2006-2026
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Machine Learning Approach to Tuning Distributed Operating System Load Balancing Algorithms.

Year: 2006

Citations: 3

Venue: PDCS

Latest Recorded Paper

Semantic Differentiation for Tackling Challenges in Watermarking Low-Entropy Constrained Generation Outputs

Year: 2026

Citations: 0

Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11629

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2026
5
2025
21
2024
14
2023
13
2022
3
2021
5
2020
7
2019
4
2018
4
2017
6
2016
7

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 63
Journal 5
Book 2

Top Coauthors

Ritter Chen Mendes

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 26
Citations 44
Avg. Citations / Paper 1.7
H-Index 4

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 42
Citations 1895
Avg. Citations / Paper 45.1
H-Index 22

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 30
Citations 5955
Avg. Citations / Paper 198.5
H-Index 19

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 20
Citations 7253
Avg. Citations / Paper 362.6
H-Index 17

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 7
Citations 294
Avg. Citations / Paper 42
H-Index 3

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

alan.ritter@cc.gatech.edu

Detected Research Keywords

Workshop Noisy User Noisy User Generated User Generated Text Named Entity Recognition Sentiment Analysis Twitter Generated Text Nut Task Sentiment Analysis Vision Language Models Association Computational Linguistics Neural Dialogue Generation