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Charles Welch

Computational Linguistics Natural Language Processing (NLP) Dialogue Systems Machine Learning Multimodal Language Understanding

About

I am an Assistant Professor at McMaster University. In the past, I was a Junior Research Group Leader collaborating with the CAISA lab led by Prof. Lucie Flek at the University of Bonn. I received my PhD at the University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Rada Mihalcea, where I worked with the LIT lab.

Research Performance Summary

52
Total Papers
621
Total Citations
16
H-Index
2013-2026
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

An efficient algorithm for finding large localizable regions in wireless sensor networks

Year: 2013

Citations: 7

Venue: Procedia Computer Science 19

Latest Recorded Paper

PERSPECTRA: A Scalable and Configurable Pluralist Benchmark of Perspectives from Arguments

Year: 2026

Citations: 0

Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08716

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2026
1
2025
9
2024
8
2023
4
2022
11
2021
3
2020
6
2019
2
2018
2
2016
2
2015
2

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 29
Journal 1
Book 1

Top Coauthors

Welch Flek Mihalcea

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 10
Citations 8
Avg. Citations / Paper 0.8
H-Index 2

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 32
Citations 537
Avg. Citations / Paper 16.8
H-Index 14

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 8
Citations 69
Avg. Citations / Paper 8.6
H-Index 4

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 2
Citations 7
Avg. Citations / Paper 3.5
H-Index 1

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

cwelch@mcmaster.ca

Detected Research Keywords

Natural Language Processing Expressive Interviewing Conversational Interviewing Conversational System Conversational System Coping System Coping Covid Coping Covid 19 Personal Longitudinal Dialog What Women Want Practical Impacts Theoretical Impacts Theoretical Constructs