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David Smith
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Digital Humanities
Computational Social Sciences
Information Retrieval
Linguistic And Cultural Research Systems
About
David A. Smith is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is a founding member of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, Northeastern University’s center for the digital humanities and computational social sciences.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Smith was a professor at the University of Massachusetts and a contributor to Tufts University's Perseus Digital Library, one of the most widely used linguistic and cultural research systems in the humanities field. Funded by the NSF, NEH, DARPA, ONR, AFRL, the Mellon Foundation, and Google, Smith has published widely in natural language processing and computational linguistics, information retrieval, digital libraries, digital humanities, and political science.
Research Performance Summary
1975-2025
Active Research Span
First Recorded Paper
Study of the measurement of transducer directivity with a planar measurement array
Year:
1975
Citations:
1
Venue:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 58 (4)
Latest Recorded Paper
Argos Platform Transmitting Terminal (PTT) tracking of Adelie penguins at the South Orkney Islands, from 1999-2014 (Version 1.0)[Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
Year:
2025
Citations:
0
Venue:
N/A
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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Publication Venues and Collaboration
Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown
Top Coauthors
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Research Impact by Period
Papers
9
Citations
14
Avg. Citations / Paper
1.6
H-Index
2
Papers
60
Citations
137
Avg. Citations / Paper
2.3
H-Index
6
Papers
165
Citations
938
Avg. Citations / Paper
5.7
H-Index
14
Papers
248
Citations
1194
Avg. Citations / Paper
4.8
H-Index
18
Papers
225
Citations
1843
Avg. Citations / Paper
8.2
H-Index
14
Papers
228
Citations
2175
Avg. Citations / Paper
9.5
H-Index
17
Papers
149
Citations
364
Avg. Citations / Paper
2.4
H-Index
9
Papers
107
Citations
384
Avg. Citations / Paper
3.6
H-Index
8
Papers
95
Citations
263
Avg. Citations / Paper
2.8
H-Index
9
Papers
57
Citations
137
Avg. Citations / Paper
2.4
H-Index
6
Papers
47
Citations
83
Avg. Citations / Paper
1.8
H-Index
5
Contact and Professional Links
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