Nicholas Lester

508 total citations
22 papers, 247 citations indexed

About

Nicholas Lester is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Lester has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 247 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Lester's work include Algorithms and Data Compression (7 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 papers) and Data Management and Algorithms (5 papers). Nicholas Lester is often cited by papers focused on Algorithms and Data Compression (7 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 papers) and Data Management and Algorithms (5 papers). Nicholas Lester collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Switzerland. Nicholas Lester's co-authors include Justin Zobel, Hugh Williams, Alistair Moffat, Stefanie Wulff, Sabine Stoll, Fermı́n Moscoso del Prado Martı́n, Shanley Allen, Barbara Pfeiler, Ayli̇n C. Küntay and Bodo Billerbeck and has published in prestigious journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Cognition and Cognitive Science.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Lester

22 papers receiving 226 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas Lester United States 8 134 120 85 84 33 22 247
Menzo Windhouwer Netherlands 8 85 0.6× 198 1.6× 69 0.8× 80 1.0× 10 0.3× 40 272
Brigitte Bigi France 9 22 0.2× 265 2.2× 153 1.8× 75 0.9× 11 0.3× 21 394
Pascal Denis France 14 20 0.1× 511 4.3× 34 0.4× 22 0.3× 12 0.4× 30 584
Jakub Zavrel Netherlands 12 15 0.1× 752 6.3× 78 0.9× 30 0.4× 19 0.6× 35 802
Baden Hughes Australia 7 34 0.3× 166 1.4× 29 0.3× 7 0.1× 13 0.4× 32 225
Kay Cohen 3 16 0.1× 244 2.0× 30 0.4× 56 0.7× 13 0.4× 4 329
Judith Markowitz United States 7 11 0.1× 152 1.3× 38 0.4× 53 0.6× 24 0.7× 18 237
Motaz Saad Palestinian Territory 8 41 0.3× 238 2.0× 96 1.1× 11 0.1× 9 0.3× 22 326
Clara Meister Switzerland 11 13 0.1× 285 2.4× 49 0.6× 21 0.3× 27 0.8× 30 358
Teemu Hirsimäki Finland 12 14 0.1× 586 4.9× 28 0.3× 130 1.5× 6 0.2× 20 648

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Lester

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All Works

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Leroux, Maël, et al.. (2022). From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 76(9). 122–122. 6 indexed citations
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Moran, Steven, Nicholas Lester, & Eitan Grossman. (2021). Inferring recent evolutionary changes in speech sounds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1824). 20200198–20200198. 6 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, et al.. (2021). Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages. Cognition. 221. 104986–104986. 20 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, et al.. (2018). Phonetic duration of nouns depends on de-lexicalized syntactic distributions: Evidence from naturally occurring conversation.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, et al.. (2018). Case inflection and the functional indeterminacy of nouns: A cross-linguistic analysis.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, Laurie Beth Feldman, & Fermı́n Moscoso del Prado Martı́n. (2017). You can take a noun out of syntax...: Syntactic similarity effects in lexical priming.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas & Fermı́n Moscoso del Prado Martı́n. (2016). Syntactic Flexibility in the Noun: Evidence from Picture Naming.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas & Fermı́n Moscoso del Prado Martı́n. (2015). Word order in a grammarless language: A 'small-data' information-theoretic approach.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas & Fermı́n Moscoso del Prado Martı́n. (2015). Constructional paradigms affect visual lexical decision latencies in English.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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Wulff, Stefanie, et al.. (2014). That-variation in German and Spanish L2 English. Language and Cognition. 6(2). 271–299. 20 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas. (2013). Gilquin, Gaëtanelle, Sylvie De Cock, and Sylviane Granger: Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 11(2). 1 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, et al.. (2013). Battling Texas' Worst One-Year Drought: Drought Planning and Response in the Lone Star State. 2346–2357. 1 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, Alistair Moffat, & Justin Zobel. (2008). Efficient online index construction for text databases. ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 33(3). 1–33. 34 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, et al.. (2006). RMIT University at TREC 2006: Terabyte Track. Text REtrieval Conference. 2 indexed citations
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Bernstein, Yaniv, Bodo Billerbeck, Nicholas Lester, et al.. (2005). RMIT University at TREC 2005: Terabyte and Robust Track.. Text REtrieval Conference. 11 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, Justin Zobel, & Hugh Williams. (2005). Efficient online index maintenance for contiguous inverted lists. Information Processing & Management. 42(4). 916–933. 36 indexed citations
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Clare, Amanda, Hugh Williams, & Nicholas Lester. (2005). Scalable Multi-Relational Association Mining. RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library). 16. 355–358. 5 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, Alistair Moffat, & Justin Zobel. (2005). Fast on-line index construction by geometric partitioning. RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library). 776–783. 39 indexed citations
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Lester, Nicholas, Justin Zobel, & Hugh Williams. (2004). In-place versus re-build versus re-merge: Index maintenance strategies for text retrieval systems. RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library). 38 indexed citations
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Billerbeck, Bodo, et al.. (2004). RMIT University at TREC 2004. Text REtrieval Conference. 7 indexed citations

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