David Mimno

8.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
65 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

David Mimno is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, General Social Sciences and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Mimno has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 16 papers in General Social Sciences and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in David Mimno's work include Topic Modeling (38 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (18 papers) and Computational and Text Analysis Methods (16 papers). David Mimno is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (38 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (18 papers) and Computational and Text Analysis Methods (16 papers). David Mimno collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. David Mimno's co-authors include Hanna Wallach, Andrew McCallum, Andrew McCallum, Edmund M. Talley, Iain Murray, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Alexandra Schofield, Limin Yao, Maria Antoniak and Igor Labutov and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

David Mimno

62 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models 2009 2026 2014 2020 2011 2009 2009 2015 2009 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models
    2011 816 citations David Mimno, Hanna Wallach et al. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) profile →
  2. Evaluation methods for topic models
    2009 562 citations Hanna Wallach, David Mimno et al. profile →
  3. Rethinking LDA: Why Priors Matter
    2009 380 citations Hanna Wallach, David Mimno et al. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) profile →
  4. Evaluation methods for unsupervised word embeddings
    2015 319 citations Tobias Schnabel, Igor Labutov et al. profile →
  5. Efficient methods for topic model inference on streaming document collections
    2009 248 citations David Mimno, Andrew McCallum et al. profile →
  6. Applications of Topic Models
    2017 128 citations Jordan Boyd‐Graber, Yuening Hu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Mimno United States 27 2.9k 941 807 649 400 65 4.4k
Hanna Wallach United States 26 3.0k 1.0× 606 0.6× 748 0.9× 578 0.9× 351 0.9× 67 4.9k
Jordan Boyd‐Graber United States 33 3.6k 1.2× 704 0.7× 639 0.8× 510 0.8× 296 0.7× 124 4.9k
Andrew McCallum United States 29 4.0k 1.4× 441 0.5× 2.2k 2.7× 366 0.6× 999 2.5× 73 5.9k
Jacob Eisenstein United States 33 3.3k 1.1× 131 0.1× 740 0.9× 556 0.9× 236 0.6× 113 4.6k
Saif M. Mohammad Canada 40 6.4k 2.2× 142 0.2× 1.0k 1.3× 1.4k 2.1× 499 1.2× 96 8.0k
Petr Sojka Czechia 11 1.7k 0.6× 151 0.2× 494 0.6× 298 0.5× 128 0.3× 81 2.7k
Peter D. Turney Canada 23 5.6k 1.9× 105 0.1× 1.1k 1.3× 871 1.3× 308 0.8× 45 7.0k
Janyce Wiebe United States 45 11.0k 3.8× 125 0.1× 1.7k 2.1× 933 1.4× 568 1.4× 111 11.9k
Jenny Rose Finkel United States 14 6.0k 2.1× 106 0.1× 1.3k 1.7× 423 0.7× 202 0.5× 18 7.3k
Ronen Feldman Israel 29 2.3k 0.8× 72 0.1× 1.1k 1.4× 773 1.2× 175 0.4× 76 4.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schroeder, Hope, Ziv Epstein, Simon T. Perrault, et al.. (2024). LLMs as Research Tools: Applications and Evaluations in HCI Data Work. IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen). 1–7. 17 indexed citations
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Longpre, Shayne, Emily Reif, Katherine Lee, et al.. (2024). A Pretrainer’s Guide to Training Data: Measuring the Effects of Data Age, Domain Coverage, Quality, & Toxicity. 3245–3276. 11 indexed citations
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Goldberg, Rachel, et al.. (2024). Automate or Assist? The Role of Computational Models in Identifying Gendered Discourse in US Capital Trial Transcripts. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society. 7. 1556–1566. 2 indexed citations
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Mimno, David, et al.. (2023). It Matters to the Viewer: Social Reviews of Books Adapted for Film. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13(3).
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Reif, Emily, et al.. (2023). Data Similarity is Not Enough to Explain Language Model Performance. 11295–11304. 1 indexed citations
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Mimno, David, et al.. (2023). Modeling Legal Reasoning: LM Annotation at the Edge of Human Agreement. 9252–9265. 2 indexed citations
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Antoniak, Maria & David Mimno. (2021). Bad Seeds: Evaluating Lexical Methods for Bias Measurement. 1889–1904. 31 indexed citations
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Bindel, David, et al.. (2020). Prior-aware Composition Inference for Spectral Topic Models. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 4258–4268. 2 indexed citations
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Griffin, Robert S., et al.. (2020). Imagined Examples of Painful Experiences Provided by Chronic Low Back Pain Patients and Attributed a Pain Numerical Rating Score. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13. 1331–1331. 3 indexed citations
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Thompson, Laure & David Mimno. (2018). Authorless Topic Models: Biasing Models Away from Known Structure. International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 3903–3914. 5 indexed citations
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Schofield, Alexandra, Måns Magnusson, & David Mimno. (2017). Pulling Out the Stops: Rethinking Stopword Removal for Topic Models. 432–436. 104 indexed citations
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Mimno, David, et al.. (2017). The Tell-Tale Hat: Surfacing the Uncertainty in Folklore Classification. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 5 indexed citations
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Boyd‐Graber, Jordan, Yuening Hu, & David Mimno. (2017). Applications of Topic Models. 11(2-3). 143–296. 128 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schnabel, Tobias, Igor Labutov, David Mimno, & Thorsten Joachims. (2015). Evaluation methods for unsupervised word embeddings. 298–307. 319 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mimno, David, et al.. (2014). Low-dimensional Embeddings for Interpretable Anchor-based Topic Inference. 1319–1328. 68 indexed citations
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Gopalan, Prem, Sean Gerrish, Michael J. Freedman, David M. Blei, & David Mimno. (2012). Scalable Inference of Overlapping Communities. Neural Information Processing Systems. 25. 2249–2257. 50 indexed citations
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Mimno, David & David M. Blei. (2011). Bayesian Checking for Topic Models. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 227–237. 37 indexed citations
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Mimno, David, et al.. (2011). Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 262–272. 816 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wallach, Hanna, David Mimno, & Andrew McCallum. (2009). Rethinking LDA: Why Priors Matter. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 22. 1973–1981. 380 indexed citations breakdown →

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