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David Andreoff Evans

Also known as David A. Evans

David Andreoff Evans is a computational linguist whose work applies natural-language processing to text indexing and retrieval. He earned a Stanford PhD, then taught linguistics and computer science and established a computational-linguistics program and laboratory at Carnegie Mellon. CLARIT grew into Claritech, and his later papers examined noun-phrase analysis and cross-language retrieval; he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 1999. As of October 2026, he is President and Chief Scientist of MetaMoJi Global Research.

Now at
MetaMoJi Global Research
Works
151
Citations
2,396
h-index
25
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1948–1982

    From St. Louis to Stanford

    He is born in St. Louis in 1948. He completes a Stanford PhD in computational linguistics in 1982.

  2. 1981

    A speech-acts paper

    He presents “A Situation Semantics Approach to the Analysis of Speech Acts” at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1981.

  3. 1983–1996

    A lab at Carnegie Mellon

    At Carnegie Mellon, he is Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science from 1983 through 1996. He establishes the Computational Linguistics Program and Laboratory for Computational Linguistics in 1986.

  4. September 1992

    CLARIT becomes Claritech

    He leads CLARIT, a project on computational-linguistic approaches to text indexing and retrieval. In September 1992, CLARIT spins out from Carnegie Mellon as Claritech.

  5. 1996

    A noun-phrase analysis paper

    With Chengxiang Zhai, he publishes “Noun Phrase Analysis in Large Unrestricted Text for Information Retrieval” at the 34th ACL meeting.

  6. 1999

    An ACMI fellowship

    He is elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 1999.

  7. 2005

    Cross-language information retrieval

    He coauthors “The Use of Monolingual Context Vectors for Missing Translations in Cross-Language Information Retrieval” with Yan Qu and Gregory Grefenstette in 2005.

  8. As of October 2026

    President and chief scientist

    He is President and Chief Scientist of MetaMoJi Global Research.

Career

  1. NowMetaMoJi Global ResearchPresident and Chief Scientist
  2. 1983–1996Carnegie Mellon UniversityProfessor of Linguistics and Computer Science

Education

  1. 1982Stanford UniversityPhD in computational linguistics

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Toward a Medical-concept Representation Language1994 · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · 151 citations
  2. Noun-phrase analysis in unrestricted text for information retrieval1996 · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 136 citationsWith Chengxiang Zhai
  3. Conversation as Planned Behavior1980 · Cognitive Science · 128 citationsWith Jerry Robert Hobbs
  4. A Statistical Approach to Automatic OCR Error Correction in Context1996 · 116 citations
  5. Coupling niche browsers and affect analysis for an opinion mining application2004 · 101 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. Stanford University trained or employed 20 of the 89 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Stanford University. Stanford University trained or employed 20 of the 89 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and employment links for major-prize and best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Carnegie Mellon University. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Carnegie Mellon University. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  4. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labsIncludes Carnegie Mellon University. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, citations and moves to estimate how universities and frontier labs contribute to AI research.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. David Andreoff Evans - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. A Situation Semantics Approach to the Analysis of Speech Acts - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. David A. Evans - Menlo Park, California, Stanford (A.B., B.S., Ph.D.) | about.me about.me. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Noun Phrase Analysis in Large Unrestricted Text for Information Retrieval - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. David A. Evans - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.