Christian Bentz

1.1k total citations
32 papers, 512 citations indexed

About

Christian Bentz is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Studies and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Bentz has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 512 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 19 papers in Cultural Studies and 6 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Christian Bentz's work include Language and cultural evolution (19 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (13 papers) and Authorship Attribution and Profiling (10 papers). Christian Bentz is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (19 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (13 papers) and Authorship Attribution and Profiling (10 papers). Christian Bentz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Christian Bentz's co-authors include Bodo Winter, Ramon Ferrer‐i‐Cancho, Paula Buttery, Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Felix Hill, Douwe Kiela, Annemarie Verkerk, Michael Cysouw, Tanja Samardżić and Anna Korhonen and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Cognitive Science and Scientific Data.

In The Last Decade

Christian Bentz

31 papers receiving 475 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian Bentz Germany 12 275 243 134 114 84 32 512
Mike Dowman United States 7 271 1.0× 134 0.6× 77 0.6× 51 0.4× 122 1.5× 16 451
Scott R. Moisik Netherlands 12 160 0.6× 147 0.6× 100 0.7× 162 1.4× 261 3.1× 49 464
Jinyun Ke United States 7 252 0.9× 213 0.9× 293 2.2× 175 1.5× 170 2.0× 12 712
Steven Moran Switzerland 9 172 0.6× 108 0.4× 82 0.6× 110 1.0× 103 1.2× 40 341
Andreea S. Calude New Zealand 10 124 0.5× 85 0.3× 201 1.5× 125 1.1× 104 1.2× 41 410
Annemarie Verkerk Germany 10 167 0.6× 74 0.3× 73 0.5× 83 0.7× 85 1.0× 25 287
Gareth Roberts United States 12 209 0.8× 76 0.3× 156 1.2× 114 1.0× 123 1.5× 34 372
Michael Cysouw Germany 17 371 1.3× 459 1.9× 519 3.9× 301 2.6× 217 2.6× 55 1.0k
Tom Schoenemann United States 4 176 0.6× 144 0.6× 283 2.1× 147 1.3× 170 2.0× 6 597
Lyle Jenkins Austria 9 175 0.6× 108 0.4× 233 1.7× 64 0.6× 101 1.2× 13 441

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Bentz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Bentz

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All Works

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Samardżić, Tanja, et al.. (2024). A Measure for Transparent Comparison of Linguistic Diversity in Multilingual NLP Data Sets. 3367–3382. 1 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, et al.. (2023). Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf’s law of abbreviation revisited. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 54. 58–87. 5 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, et al.. (2023). Measuring language complexity: challenges and opportunities. Linguistics Vanguard. 9(s1). 1–8. 10 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, et al.. (2022). Complexity trade-offs and equi-complexity in natural languages: a meta-analysis. Linguistics Vanguard. 9(s1). 9–25. 12 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, et al.. (2020). SignBase, a collection of geometric signs on mobile objects in the Paleolithic. Scientific Data. 7(1). 364–364. 8 indexed citations
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Nichols, Johanna & Christian Bentz. (2018). Morphological complexity of languages reflects the settlement history of the Americas. 2 indexed citations
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Çöltekin, Çağrı, Bill Thompson, Vera Demberg, et al.. (2018). Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 8–17. 13 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, et al.. (2018). Proceedings of the first shared task on measuring language complexity. 2 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, Dan Dediu, Annemarie Verkerk, & Gerhard Jäger. (2018). The evolution of language families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(11). 816–821. 33 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Michael Cysouw, & Ramon Ferrer‐i‐Cancho. (2017). The Entropy of Words—Learnability and Expressivity across More than 1000 Languages. Entropy. 19(6). 275–275. 70 indexed citations
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Caines, Andrew, et al.. (2016). Crowdsourcing a Multi-lingual Speech Corpus: Recording, Transcription and Annotation of the CrowdIS Corpora. Language Resources and Evaluation. 2145–2152. 2 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, et al.. (2016). Learning pressures reduce morphological complexity: : Linking corpus, computational and experimental evidence. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 222–232. 11 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, et al.. (2016). A Comparison Between Morphological Complexity Measures: Typological Data vs. Language Corpora. Publication Server of the Institute for German Language (Institute for German Language). 142–153. 21 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, Annemarie Verkerk, Douwe Kiela, Felix Hill, & Paula Buttery. (2015). Adaptive Communication: Languages with More Non-Native Speakers Tend to Have Fewer Word Forms. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0128254–e0128254. 50 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian, et al.. (2014). Zipf's law and the grammar of languages: A quantitative study of Old and Modern English parallel texts. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 10(2). 28 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian & Douwe Kiela. (2014). ZIPF'S LAW ACROSS LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD: TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE MEASURE OF LEXICAL DIVERSITY. The Evolution of Language. 385–386. 1 indexed citations
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Hill, Felix, Anna Korhonen, & Christian Bentz. (2013). Large-Scale Empricial Analyses of the Abstract/Concrete Distinction. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 1 indexed citations
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Hill, Felix, Anna Korhonen, & Christian Bentz. (2013). A Quantitative Empirical Analysis of the Abstract/Concrete Distinction. Cognitive Science. 38(1). 162–177. 30 indexed citations
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Bentz, Christian & Bodo Winter. (2013). Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case. 3(1). 1–27. 112 indexed citations

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