Michael Lesk

5.6k citations
110 papers · 4.1k · 2 hit papers · h-index 22

Impact in

    • Natural Language Processing Techniques
    • Topic Modeling
    • Semantic Web and Ontologies
    • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
    • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Software top 2%

Papers in

    • Web Data Mining and Analysis 8
    • Research Data Management Practices 6
    • Information Retrieval and Search Behavior 5
    • Copyright and Intellectual Property 8

Michael Lesk

93 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Michael Lesk's Hit Papers

Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries 1986 · 1.3k citations
1.3k0+14+28Years since publication4008001.2k

Peers

Michael Lesk
Comparison fields: 5 of 149
  • Artificial Intelligence 2.5k
  • Software 216
  • Information Systems 1.2k
  • Hardware and Architecture 265
  • Computer Networks and Communications 683
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Michael Lesk, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries
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19861340
2 1968440
3
The C Programming Language
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1983431
4
Lex—a lexical analyzer generator
1990370
5 1998164
6
Practical digital libraries books, bytes, and bucks
1997141
7 1969130
8 1965103
9 196571
10 200769
11 197866
12 197850
13 199147
14 197044
15
Route finding in street maps by computers and people
198238
16 200831
17 197131
18 201229
19
Language development tools
198627
20 199626

About Michael Lesk

Michael Lesk is a scholar working on Information Systems, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Management and Conservation, having authored 110 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Web Data Mining and Analysis (8 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (8 papers), Copyright and Intellectual Property (8 papers), Research Data Management Practices (6 papers), Advanced Database Systems and Queries (6 papers), Digital Humanities and Scholarship (5 papers), Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (5 papers) and Geographic Information Systems Studies (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Artificial Intelligence (2.5k citations), Software (216 citations), Information Systems (1.2k citations), Hardware and Architecture (265 citations) and Computer Networks and Communications (683 citations). Michael Lesk has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Gerard Salton, Elisabeth Brandão Schmidt, S. C. Johnson, Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, William Klemperèr, Llewellyn Hosford Jones, J. I. Steinfeld, Richard N. Zare and R. H. Gammon. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Security & Privacy, ACM SIGIR Forum, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Computational Linguistics.

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