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Timothy O’Donnell
Computational Linguistics
Probabilistic Modeling
Deep Learning
Productivity And Persistence In Language
Storage Vs. Computation Trade-off
About
Dr. Timothy John O’Donnell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University and a Core Academic Member of Mila (Quebec AI Institute). He holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in the Language of Adaptation. His research program is at the forefront of Computational Linguistics, where he uses Probabilistic Modeling and Deep Learning to understand how the human mind acquires and processes the infinite complexity of natural language. Dr. O'Donnell is internationally recognized for his work on Productivity and Persistence, exploring the "storage vs. computation" trade-off: why some linguistic structures are memorized as wholes while others are computed on the fly using rules.
Research Performance Summary
2002-2026
Active Research Span
First Recorded Paper
The NITE markup framework
Year:
2002
Citations:
6
Venue:
NITE Report D 2, 2
Latest Recorded Paper
Ensembling Language Models with Sequential Monte Carlo
Year:
2026
Citations:
0
Venue:
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.05432
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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16
Citations
117
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7.3
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6
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32
Citations
450
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14.1
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11
Papers
32
Citations
1509
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47.2
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13
Papers
14
Citations
357
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25.5
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7
Papers
8
Citations
206
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25.8
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4
Papers
3
Citations
102
Avg. Citations / Paper
34
H-Index
3
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Generalized Parsing Framework
Productivity Reuse Language
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