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Michael N. Jones

Computer Science · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1973
Topic ModelingNeurobiology of Language and BilingualismNatural Language Processing TechniquesLanguage and cultural evolutionChild and Animal Learning Development

Publications

76

Citations

2,974

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

51

Publishing since 1973

Research summary
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Michael N. Jones works at the intersection of computer science and cognitive psychology, building computational models of how the human mind represents and learns the meanings of words (semantic memory). His research uses techniques from natural language processing to study how people organize vocabulary, how memory changes with aging, and how language patterns relate to conditions such as schizophrenia and early-stage psychosis.

Computational models of semantic memoryDistributional semantics (learning word meaning from language data)Language and cognitive agingAutomated analysis of speech in mental health conditionsCognitive modeling and memory

Publication activity has gradually slowed over the last decade, declining from around six papers per year in 2017-2018 to about two by 2023.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

1 earlier award
  • NSF 2235363Jun 2023 – May 2026 · $111k awarded

    Collaborative Research: CompCog: Modeling Search within the Mental Lexicon

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 649 established Computer Science PIs within our index
Citations: 2,974cohort median 1,725
h-index: 29cohort median 19
Publications / year (recent): 1.0cohort median 4.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~3 · 55% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 20 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.0/year recently
2017: 6 publications6172018: 6 publications6182019: 4 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 3 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 2 publications23242526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 2 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 0 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library)×5
  • Cognitive Science×4
  • Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale×3
  • Computational Brain & Behavior×2
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B×2
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Last updated Jul 27, 2026.

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