Kristopher Kyle

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Kristopher Kyle is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kristopher Kyle has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 37 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 12 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Kristopher Kyle's work include Second Language Acquisition and Learning (35 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (35 papers) and Text Readability and Simplification (34 papers). Kristopher Kyle is often cited by papers focused on Second Language Acquisition and Learning (35 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (35 papers) and Text Readability and Simplification (34 papers). Kristopher Kyle collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Romania. Kristopher Kyle's co-authors include Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara, Cynthia M. Berger, Mihai Dascălu, Masaki Eguchi, Minkyung Kim, Scott Jarvis, Stephen Skalicky, Laura K. Allen and Marjolijn Verspoor and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Modern Language Journal and TESOL Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Kristopher Kyle

52 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Automatically Assessing Lexical Sophistication: Indices, Tools, Findings, and Application

2014 304 citations Kristopher Kyle, Scott A. Crossley TESOL Quarterly profile →
Measuring Syntactic Complexity in L2 Writing Using Fine‐Grained Clausal and Phrasal Indices

2018 218 citations Kristopher Kyle, Scott A. Crossley profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kristopher Kyle United States	25	1.5k	1.5k	737	643	409	54	2.7k
Philip M. McCarthy United States	16	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	514 0.7×	557 0.9×	553 1.4×	58	2.6k
Zhiqiang Cai United States	16	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	228 0.3×	273 0.4×	445 1.1×	55	2.2k
Paul Deane United States	27	546 0.4×	717 0.5×	426 0.6×	323 0.5×	795 1.9×	94	1.8k
Marjolijn Verspoor Netherlands	22	602 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 2.1×	796 1.2×	262 0.6×	89	2.7k
Scott Jarvis United States	25	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	1.5k 2.0×	749 1.2×	305 0.7×	43	3.1k
Brian North Canada	13	504 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	2.4k 3.2×	2.0k 3.2×	1.2k 3.0×	26	4.1k
Paul Meara United Kingdom	32	1.3k 0.8×	2.7k 1.8×	2.3k 3.1×	833 1.3×	260 0.6×	112	3.9k
Marjorie Bingham Wesche Canada	20	495 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 2.3×	958 1.5×	414 1.0×	43	2.6k
Hilary Nesi United Kingdom	23	515 0.3×	715 0.5×	997 1.4×	844 1.3×	307 0.8×	88	1.7k
Ted Sanders Netherlands	30	976 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 2.0×	729 1.1×	480 1.2×	133	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Kristopher Kyle

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kristopher Kyle

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kyle, Kristopher, et al.. (2025). Usage-based analysis of L2 oral proficiency: Characteristics of argument structure construction use. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 47(4). 991–1017.

Kyle, Kristopher & Masaki Eguchi. (2024). Evaluating NLP models with written and spoken L2 samples. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 3(2). 100120–100120. 4 indexed citations

Kyle, Kristopher, et al.. (2024). Leveraging pre-trained language models for linguistic analysis: A case of argument structure constructions. 7302–7314. 2 indexed citations

Eguchi, Masaki & Kristopher Kyle. (2024). Building custom NLP tools to annotate discourse-functional features for second language writing research: A tutorial. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 3(3). 100153–100153. 1 indexed citations

Kyle, Kristopher, et al.. (2023). Assessing syntactic and lexicogrammatical use in second language Mandarin writing samples. Journal of Second Language Writing. 60. 101014–101014. 5 indexed citations

Eguchi, Masaki & Kristopher Kyle. (2023). Span Identification of Epistemic Stance-Taking in Academic Written English. 429–442. 1 indexed citations

Kyle, Kristopher. (2022). Some trends in vocabulary research: A discussion of three papers presented at the JALT Vocabulary SIG. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(2). 38–47. 1 indexed citations

Uchihara, Takumi, et al.. (2021). To What Extent is Collocation Knowledge Associated with Oral Proficiency? A Corpus-Based Approach to Word Association. Language and Speech. 65(2). 311–336. 15 indexed citations

Kyle, Kristopher. (2020). The relationship between features of source text use and integrated writing quality. Assessing Writing. 45. 100467–100467. 24 indexed citations

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Crossley, Scott A., Kristopher Kyle, & Mihai Dascălu. (2018). The Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Cohesion 2.0: Integrating semantic similarity and text overlap. Behavior Research Methods. 51(1). 14–27. 98 indexed citations

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Crossley, Scott A., et al.. (2018). Beginning and intermediate L2 writer’s use of N-grams: an association measures study. IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. 58(1). 51–74. 23 indexed citations

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Berger, Cynthia M., Scott A. Crossley, & Kristopher Kyle. (2017). Using novel word context measures to predict human ratings of lexical proficiency. Educational Technology & Society. 20(2). 201–212. 10 indexed citations

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Kyle, Kristopher, Scott A. Crossley, & Cynthia M. Berger. (2017). The tool for the automatic analysis of lexical sophistication (TAALES): version 2.0. Behavior Research Methods. 50(3). 1030–1046. 186 indexed citations

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Crossley, Scott A., Kristopher Kyle, Jodi L. Davenport, & Danielle S. McNamara. (2016). Automatic assessment of constructed response data in a chemistry tutor. Educational Data Mining. 336–340. 8 indexed citations

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Kyle, Kristopher & Scott A. Crossley. (2016). The relationship between lexical sophistication and independent and source-based writing. Journal of Second Language Writing. 34. 12–24. 121 indexed citations

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Crossley, Scott A., Kristopher Kyle, & Danielle S. McNamara. (2015). To Aggregate or Not? Linguistic Features in Automatic Essay Scoring and Feedback Systems. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 8(1). 24 indexed citations

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Crossley, Scott A., Kristopher Kyle, & Danielle S. McNamara. (2015). The tool for the automatic analysis of text cohesion (TAACO): Automatic assessment of local, global, and text cohesion. Behavior Research Methods. 48(4). 1227–1237. 176 indexed citations

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Crossley, Scott A., Kristopher Kyle, Laura K. Allen, Liang Guo, & Danielle S. McNamara. (2014). Linguistic microfeatures to predict L2 writing proficiency: A case study in Automated Writing Evaluation. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 7(1). 32 indexed citations

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Kyle, Kristopher & Scott A. Crossley. (2014). Automatically Assessing Lexical Sophistication: Indices, Tools, Findings, and Application. TESOL Quarterly. 49(4). 757–786. 304 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kyle, Kristopher, Scott A. Crossley, Jianmin Dai, & Danielle S. McNamara. (2013). Native Language Identification: A Key N-gram Category Approach. 242–250. 5 indexed citations

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