Michael A. Covington

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
86 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

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Michael A. Covington is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. Covington has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 16 papers in Language and Linguistics and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michael A. Covington's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (28 papers), Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (9 papers) and Topic Modeling (7 papers). Michael A. Covington is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (28 papers), Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (9 papers) and Topic Modeling (7 papers). Michael A. Covington collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Michael A. Covington's co-authors include Cati Brown, Congzhou He, Lorina Naçi, John Brown, James Semple, Susan Kemper, Ruth Herman, Jonathan T. McClain, Donald Nute and André Vellino and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Medicine, Language and The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Covington

73 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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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.

The view from Building 20: Essays in linguistics in honor of Sylvain Bromberger. Edited by Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser. (Current studies in linguistics, 24.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 273.

1994 781 citations Michael A. Covington Language profile →
A performance theory of order and constituency. By John A. Hawkins (Cambridge studies in linguistics 73.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 496. Paper $29.95.

1999 508 citations Michael A. Covington Language profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael A. Covington United States	23	1.6k	1.3k	632	574	570	86	3.3k
Stephen R. Anderson United States	26	607 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	679 1.1×	815 1.4×	666 1.2×	60	2.5k
Andrea Moro Italy	26	1.0k 0.6×	646 0.5×	1.4k 2.2×	533 0.9×	893 1.6×	84	3.1k
Mark Liberman United States	30	2.6k 1.6×	540 0.4×	614 1.0×	1.3k 2.2×	340 0.6×	166	4.1k
Victoria A. Fromkin United States	19	633 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	1.4k 2.4×	1.3k 2.3×	45	3.5k
Bart Geurts Netherlands	27	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	712 1.1×	991 1.7×	694 1.2×	67	3.2k
Michael Ramscar Germany	26	775 0.5×	504 0.4×	1.2k 1.8×	1.2k 2.1×	1.4k 2.4×	91	3.0k
Martin Corley United Kingdom	27	594 0.4×	617 0.5×	1.6k 2.5×	911 1.6×	1.2k 2.2×	72	2.6k
David Pesetsky United States	19	735 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	468 0.7×	727 1.3×	783 1.4×	28	2.5k
Alan Garnham United Kingdom	40	822 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 2.3×	1.3k 2.3×	1.8k 3.1×	129	4.1k
Max M. Louwerse United States	31	1.9k 1.2×	446 0.3×	673 1.1×	1.1k 1.9×	1.6k 2.8×	147	4.4k

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Covington, Michael A.. (2000). Recent advances in parsing technology . Ed. by Harry Bunt and Masaru Tomita. (Text, speech, and language technology, 1.) Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996. Pp. xv, 415.. Language. 76(1). 198–199. 13 indexed citations

Covington, Michael A.. (1999). Finite-state language processing. Ed. by Emmanuel Roche and Yves Schabes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 464.. Language. 75(4). 850–850. 182 indexed citations

Covington, Michael A.. (1997). Syntax : Ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung / An international handbook of contemporary research, vol. 2. Ed. by Joachim Jacobs, Arnim von Stechow, Wolfgang Sternefeld, and Theo Vennemann. (Handbücher zur sprach- und kommunikationswissenschaft [HSK] 9.2.) Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995. Pp. xii, 610 [numbered 1031–1641].. Language. 73(3). 683–684. 2 indexed citations

Covington, Michael A.. (1997). Natural language plurals in logic programming queries. Applied Artificial Intelligence. 11(3). 219–234. 1 indexed citations

Covington, Michael A.. (1996). Biblical Hebrew and discourse linguistics. Ed. by Robert D. Bergen. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1994. Pp. 560.. Language. 72(1). 180–180.

Covington, Michael A.. (1995). Challenges in natural language processing . Ed. by Madeleine Bates and Ralph M. Weischedel (Studies in natural language processing.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 296. $49.95.. Language. 71(2). 402–403. 3 indexed citations

Covington, Michael A.. (1995). English word grammar . By Richard Hudson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. x, 445.. Language. 71(3). 589–591.

Covington, Michael A.. (1995). Natural language processing . Ed. by Fernando C. N. Pereira and Barbara J. Grosz Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. Pp. vi, 531.. Language. 71(3). 652–652. 6 indexed citations

Covington, Michael A.. (1994). The view from Building 20: Essays in linguistics in honor of Sylvain Bromberger. Edited by Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser. (Current studies in linguistics, 24.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 273.. Language. 70(4). 802–807. 781 indexed citations breakdown →

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Covington, Michael A.. (1994). The Core Language Engine . Ed. by Hiyan Alshawi. (A Bradford book.) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 322. $37.50.. Language. 70(4). 847–848. 187 indexed citations

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Covington, Michael A.. (1993). Conceptual information retrieval : A case study in adaptive partial parsing. By Michael L. Mauldin Boston & Dordrecht: Kluwer. 1991. Pp. xx, 215. Cloth $62.50.. Language. 69(3). 630–631. 29 indexed citations

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Covington, Michael A.. (1993). Word order in categorial grammar/L'ordre des mots dans les grammaires catégorielles: Proceedings of the workshop of Clermont-Ferrand on behalf of DYANA project, May 25–27, 1990. Ed. by Alain Lecomte. Clermont-Ferrand: Adosa, 1992. Pp. 269. Paper FF 300.00.. Language. 69(4). 864–865. 2 indexed citations

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Covington, Michael A.. (1987). Grammatical theory in western Europe, 1500–1700: Trends in vernacular grammar, I. By G. A. Padley. Cambridge: University Press, 1985. Pp. xv, 414. $49.50.. Language. 63(2). 422–422. 10 indexed citations

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Covington, Michael A.. (1987). Semantics and syntax: Parallels and connections. By Jim Miller. (Cambridge studies in linguistics, 41.) Cambridge: University Press, 1985. Pp. viii, 262. $39.50.. Language. 63(1). 181–182. 7 indexed citations

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Covington, Michael A.. (1984). Les vrais principes de la langue françoise . By Gabriel Girard. Edition de Paris, 1747. Précédé d'une introduction par Pierre Swiggers. (Langues et cultures, 14.) Genève: Droz, 1982. Pp. 73 [introduction], x, 432, 468 [text, two volumes in one].. Language. 60(1). 185–185. 4 indexed citations

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Covington, Michael A.. (1984). Foundations of Western linguistics: From the beginning to the end of the first millennium a.d. By Even Hovdhaugen. Oslo: Universitets-forlaget, 1982. Pp. 157. [Distrib. in the US by Columbia University Press; $16.00.]. Language. 60(2). 448–449. 6 indexed citations

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Covington, Michael A.. (1983). Semantics . By F. R. Palmer. 2nd ed. Cambridge: University Press, 1981. Pp. vii, 221.. Language. 59(1). 227–228. 1 indexed citations

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Covington, Michael A.. (1983). Einführung in die Dependenzgrammatik . By Kalevi Tarvainen. (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik, 35.) Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1981. Pp. ix, 122.. Language. 59(1). 227–227.

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Covington, Michael A.. (1982). Studies in medieval linguistic thought, : dedicated to Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall on the occasion of his 60th birthday on 15 May 1980. Ed. By E. F. Konrad Koerner, Hans-J. Niederehe, and R. H. Robins. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, III: Studies in the history of linguistics, 26.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1980. Pp. vi, 321. f 90.00. [Also published as Historiographia linguistica 7:1/2.]. Language. 58(1). 239–240. 1 indexed citations

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Covington, Michael A.. (1980). Summa modorum significant; Sophismata . By Sigerus de Cortraco. New edition by Jan Pinborg. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, series III: Studies in the history of linguistics, 14.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1977. Pp. xli, 108.. Language. 56(1). 221–221.

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