Nico Schlaefer

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 911 citations indexed

About

Nico Schlaefer is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Nico Schlaefer has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 911 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 2 papers in Information Systems and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Nico Schlaefer's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 papers), Topic Modeling (7 papers) and Speech and dialogue systems (2 papers). Nico Schlaefer is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 papers), Topic Modeling (7 papers) and Speech and dialogue systems (2 papers). Nico Schlaefer collaborates with scholars based in United States. Nico Schlaefer's co-authors include Eric Nyberg, Jennifer Chu‐Carroll, James Fan, David Ferrucci, Adam Lally, John Prager, David Gondek, Aditya Kalyanpur, Jaimie Murdock and Eric W. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as IBM Journal of Research and Development, AI Magazine and Figshare.

In The Last Decade

Nico Schlaefer

7 papers receiving 804 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project

2010 789 citations David Ferrucci, Eric W. Brown et al. AI Magazine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nico Schlaefer United States	6	712	193	105	88	79	7	911
James Fan United States	14	917 1.3×	217 1.1×	113 1.1×	104 1.2×	123 1.6×	34	1.3k
David Pinto Mexico	18	857 1.2×	365 1.9×	124 1.2×	85 1.0×	69 0.9×	111	1.2k
James G. Shanahan United States	10	599 0.8×	299 1.5×	80 0.8×	67 0.8×	52 0.7×	34	901
Raphael Hoffmann United States	12	884 1.2×	292 1.5×	76 0.7×	133 1.5×	81 1.0×	16	1.1k
Bo-June Hsu United States	13	715 1.0×	338 1.8×	116 1.1×	112 1.3×	83 1.1×	23	1.1k
Shih-Hung Wu Taiwan	16	687 1.0×	178 0.9×	107 1.0×	46 0.5×	101 1.3×	87	865
Amin Mantrach Spain	11	285 0.4×	239 1.2×	98 0.9×	65 0.7×	32 0.4×	19	545
Dean Allemang United States	11	596 0.8×	212 1.1×	42 0.4×	56 0.6×	76 1.0×	27	834
Michihiro Yasunaga United States	14	1.3k 1.8×	259 1.3×	216 2.1×	109 1.2×	124 1.6×	21	1.5k
Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh United States	10	616 0.9×	160 0.8×	75 0.7×	40 0.5×	56 0.7×	23	936

Countries citing papers authored by Nico Schlaefer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nico Schlaefer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nico Schlaefer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nico Schlaefer 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 Nico Schlaefer. Nico Schlaefer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Chu‐Carroll, Jennifer, Jialu Fan, Nico Schlaefer, & Wlodek Zadrozny. (2012). Textual resource acquisition and engineering. IBM Journal of Research and Development. 56(3.4). 4:1–4:11. 25 indexed citations

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Schlaefer, Nico, Jennifer Chu‐Carroll, Eric Nyberg, et al.. (2011). Statistical source expansion for question answering. Figshare. 19 indexed citations

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Ferrucci, David, Eric W. Brown, Jennifer Chu‐Carroll, et al.. (2010). Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project. AI Magazine. 31(3). 59–79. 789 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Richard C., Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen, & Eric Nyberg. (2008). Automatic set expansion for list question answering. 947–947. 21 indexed citations

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Schlaefer, Nico, et al.. (2007). SEMANTIC EXTENSIONS OF THE EPHYRA QA SYSTEM FOR TREC 2007. Text REtrieval Conference. 34 indexed citations

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Schlaefer, Nico. (2007). Deploying Semantic Resources for Open Domain Question Answering. 3 indexed citations

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Schlaefer, Nico, et al.. (2006). THE EPHYRA QA SYSTEM AT TREC 2006. Text REtrieval Conference. 20 indexed citations

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