Nicholas Lester
Impact in
- Signal Processing top 10%
- Data Management and Algorithms
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- Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Caching and Content Delivery
- Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Papers in
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- Algorithms and Data Compression 7
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- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism 6
- Co-authors
- Justin Zobel (6 shared papers)Hugh Williams (4 shared papers)Alistair Moffat (2 shared papers)Stefanie Wulff (1 shared paper)José Ramón Botella (1 shared paper)Ian D. Godwin (1 shared paper)Karen Massel (1 shared paper)Sabine Stoll (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- Cognitive Science (6 papers)Information Processing & Management (1 paper)Cognition (1 paper)Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (1 paper)Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (1 paper)
- Partner nations
- United StatesAustraliaSwitzerland
In The Last Decade
Nicholas Lester
23 papers receiving 258 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 45
- Signal Processing 84
- Computer Networks and Communications 134
- Developmental Biology 9
- Linguistics and Language 19
- Information Systems 85
Countries citing papers authored by Nicholas Lester
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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas Lester
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Nicholas Lester, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2005 | 39 | |
| 2 | In-place versus re-build versus re-merge: Index maintenance strategies for text retrieval systems | 2004 | 38 |
| 3 | 2005 | 36 | |
| 4 | 2008 | 34 | |
| 5 | 2021 | 30 | |
| 6 | 2014 | 22 | |
| 7 | 2021 | 21 | |
| 8 | RMIT University at TREC 2005: Terabyte and Robust Track. | 2005 | 11 |
| 9 | RMIT University at TREC 2004 | 2004 | 7 |
| 10 | 2022 | 7 | |
| 11 | 2021 | 6 | |
| 12 | The Syntactic Bits of Nouns: How Prior Syntactic Distributions Affect Comprehension, Production, and Acquisition | 2018 | 6 |
| 13 | 2005 | 5 | |
| 14 | 2019 | 4 | |
| 15 | Syntactic Flexibility in the Noun: Evidence from Picture Naming. | 2016 | 3 |
| 16 | You can take a noun out of syntax...: Syntactic similarity effects in lexical priming. | 2017 | 3 |
| 17 | RMIT University at TREC 2006: Terabyte Track | 2006 | 2 |
| 18 | Constructional paradigms affect visual lexical decision latencies in English. | 2015 | 2 |
| 19 | Case inflection and the functional indeterminacy of nouns: A cross-linguistic analysis. | 2018 | 1 |
| 20 | Phonetic duration of nouns depends on de-lexicalized syntactic distributions: Evidence from naturally occurring conversation. | 2018 | 1 |
About Nicholas Lester
Nicholas Lester is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Signal Processing and Language and Linguistics, having authored 23 papers that have together received 281 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Algorithms and Data Compression (7 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (5 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 papers), Web Data Mining and Analysis (3 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 papers), Second Language Acquisition and Learning (2 papers) and Advanced Database Systems and Queries (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Signal Processing (84 citations), Computer Networks and Communications (134 citations), Developmental Biology (9 citations), Linguistics and Language (19 citations) and Information Systems (85 citations). Nicholas Lester has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Justin Zobel, Hugh Williams, Alistair Moffat, Stefanie Wulff, José Ramón Botella, Ian D. Godwin, Karen Massel, Sabine Stoll, Shanley Allen and Barbara Pfeiler. Their work appears in journals such as Cognitive Science, Information Processing & Management, Cognition, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.
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