Michael Collins

16.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
134 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Collins is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Collins has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 27 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 19 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Collins's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (36 papers), Topic Modeling (35 papers) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (27 papers). Michael Collins is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (36 papers), Topic Modeling (35 papers) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (27 papers). Michael Collins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Austria. Michael Collins's co-authors include Yoram Singer, Brian Roark, Ariadna Quattoni, Trevor Darrell, Ivona Kučerová, Philipp Koehn, William J. Emery, Chris Alberti, Kristina Toutanova and Tom Kwiatkowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Michael Collins

128 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Discriminative training methods for hidden Markov models

2002 1.3k citations Michael Collins profile →
Head-Driven Statistical Models for Natural Language Parsing

2003 1.1k citations Michael Collins profile →
Natural Questions: A Benchmark for Question Answering Research

2019 984 citations Michael Collins, Chris Alberti et al. profile →
Unsupervised Models for Named Entity Classification

1999 567 citations Michael Collins, Yoram Singer Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing profile →
Three generative, lexicalised models for statistical parsing

1997 535 citations Michael Collins profile →
Clause restructuring for statistical machine translation

2005 435 citations Michael Collins et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Collins United States	41	7.5k	1.6k	730	543	513	134	10.0k
Stephan R. Sain United States	27	2.0k 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	262 0.4×	424 0.8×	105 0.2×	85	7.2k
Jing Yao China	39	1.4k 0.2×	2.7k 1.7×	208 0.3×	979 1.8×	833 1.6×	128	9.8k
Zhi Ding United States	53	1.9k 0.3×	454 0.3×	301 0.4×	264 0.5×	1.1k 2.1×	577	11.6k
Xin Sun China	41	1.4k 0.2×	1.5k 0.9×	385 0.5×	209 0.4×	1.0k 2.0×	282	6.2k
José M. Peña Spain	42	1.4k 0.2×	647 0.4×	307 0.4×	380 0.7×	274 0.5×	163	7.4k
D. A. Landgrebe United States	39	2.7k 0.4×	2.3k 1.4×	474 0.6×	317 0.6×	393 0.8×	181	9.8k
Xiaohui Yuan United States	36	949 0.1×	1.9k 1.2×	265 0.4×	320 0.6×	264 0.5×	225	5.5k
Robin Sibson United Kingdom	19	1.3k 0.2×	817 0.5×	256 0.4×	332 0.6×	162 0.3×	31	5.1k
Nikos Vlassis Netherlands	33	2.3k 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	272 0.4×	801 1.5×	418 0.8×	126	6.0k
Hieu Pham United States	18	4.6k 0.6×	2.3k 1.5×	573 0.8×	253 0.5×	96 0.2×	41	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Collins

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Collins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Collins

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Collins. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Collins based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Collins. Michael Collins is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Atteia, Ghada, Michael Collins, Abeer D. Algarni, & Nagwan Abdel Samee. (2022). Deep-Learning-Based Feature Extraction Approach for Significant Wave Height Prediction in SAR Mode Altimeter Data. Remote Sensing. 14(21). 5569–5569. 5 indexed citations

Papadimitriou, Christos H., et al.. (2020). Brain computation by assemblies of neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(25). 14464–14472. 40 indexed citations

Eskander, Ramy, Smaranda Muresan, & Michael Collins. (2020). Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging for Truly Low-Resource Scenarios. 4820–4831. 12 indexed citations

Alberti, Chris, Daniel Andor, Emily Pitler, Jacob Devlin, & Michael Collins. (2019). Synthetic QA Corpora Generation with Roundtrip Consistency. 6168–6173. 108 indexed citations

McGuire, Peter, et al.. (2019). C-Band Simulations of Melting Icebergs Using GRECOSAR and an EM Model: Varying Wind Conditions at Lower Beam Mode. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 12(12). 5134–5146. 4 indexed citations

Stratos, Karl, et al.. (2014). A spectral algorithm for learning class-based n -gram models of natural language. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 762–771. 18 indexed citations

Denbina, Michael & Michael Collins. (2014). Iceberg detection using analysis of the received polarization ellipse in compact polarimetry. 266–269. 1 indexed citations

Denbina, Michael & Michael Collins. (2014). Iceberg Detection Using Simulated Dual-Polarized Radarsat Constellation Data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 40(3). 165–178. 8 indexed citations

Stratos, Karl, Alexander M. Rush, Shay B. Cohen, & Michael Collins. (2013). Spectral Learning of Refinement HMMs. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 56–64. 8 indexed citations

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Cohen, Shay B., Karl Stratos, Michael Collins, Dean P. Foster, & Lyle Ungar. (2012). Spectral Learning of Latent-Variable PCFGs. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 1. 223–231. 11 indexed citations

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Brenick, Alaina, et al.. (2009). Do Stereotypic Images in Video Games Affect Attitudes and Behavior? Adolescents' Perspectives.. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 19(1). 170–196. 4 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael, et al.. (2009). Learning Label Embeddings for Nearest-Neighbor Multi-class Classification with an Application to Speech Recognition. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 22. 1678–1686. 19 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael, et al.. (2009). Modeling and Simulation of SAR Image Texture. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 47(10). 3530–3546. 31 indexed citations

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Fusilier, Marcelline, et al.. (2005). A Four-Country Investigation of Factors Facilitating Student Internet Use. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 8(5). 454–464. 8 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael, Brian Roark, & Murat Saraçlar. (2005). Discriminative syntactic language modeling for speech recognition. 507–514. 60 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael & Yoram Singer. (1999). Unsupervised Models for Named Entity Classification. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 567 indexed citations breakdown →

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Collins, Michael, Lance Ramshaw, Jan Hajič, & Christoph Tillmann. (1999). A statistical parser for Czech. 505–512. 131 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael & S.L. Miller. (1998). Semantic Tagging using a Probabilistic Context Free Grammar. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 18 indexed citations

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White, G. M., et al.. (1990). Forced air baled hay drying.. Paper - American Society of Agricultural Engineers. 1 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael, David Jones, & David A. Clayton. (1984). Redescription of Uca Sindensis (Alcock, 1900) (Brachyura: Ocypodidae) with Notes on the Ecology of a Population from Kuwait. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 4(2). 318–328. 12 indexed citations

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