Scholar
David A. Smith
Google Scholar ID: T8k2etUAAAAJ
Associate Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,622
H-index
16
i10-index
30
Publications
20
Co-authors
35
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple conference and journal papers, including 'Retrieving and analyzing translations of American newspaper comics with visual evidence' (2024) with Jacob Murel; 'MONSTERMASH: Multidirectional, overlapping, nested, spiral text extraction for recognition models of Arabic-script handwriting' (2024) with Danlu Chen et al. Also co-authored a book titled 'Going the Rounds: Virality in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers', which is forthcoming in 2022.
Research Experience
- Involved in several research projects such as the Mellon Foundation-funded study on the spread of news about racial terror and anti-Black violence; the Mellon Foundation-funded project to craft a research agenda for historical and multilingual OCR in the humanities; the $1.2M Oceanic Exchanges project funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences and funding agencies in five other countries to track news and ideas across countries and languages; and the NEH-funded Viral Texts project on viral networks in 19th-century newspapers.
Education
- Former Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; worked on Natural Language Processing at Johns Hopkins University; and was the Head Programmer at the Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Background
- Research interests: natural language processing and computational linguistics, with applications to machine translation, information retrieval, social sciences, and humanities. Founding member of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, a research center at Northeastern University for digital humanities and computational social sciences.
Miscellany
- Office hours: by appointment
