| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner | Web Semantics | 2007 | 1,852 |
| 2 | Generalized quantifiers and natural language | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1981 | 1,756 |
| 3 | A theory of focus interpretation | Natural Language Semantics | 1992 | 1,674 |
| 4 | DBpedia - A crystallization point for the Web of Data | Web Semantics | 2009 | 1,560 |
| 5 | Reference to Kinds across Language | Natural Language Semantics | 1998 | 1,121 |
| 6 | The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group | Web Semantics | 2012 | 1,070 |
| 7 | From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: the making of a Web Ontology Language | Web Semantics | 2003 | 1,034 |
| 8 | Dynamic predicate logic | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1991 | 940 |
| 9 | LUBM: A benchmark for OWL knowledge base systems | Web Semantics | 2005 | 940 |
| 10 | Syntax and semantics of questions | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1977 | 733 |
| 11 | Quality of service for workflows and web service processes | Web Semantics | 2004 | 723 |
| 12 | Vagueness and grammar: the semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2007 | 677 |
| 13 | The algebra of events | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1986 | 633 |
| 14 | Presupposition Projection as Anaphora Resolution | Journal of Semantics | 1992 | 627 |
| 15 | What ?must? and ?can? must and can mean | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1977 | 622 |
| 16 | YAGO: A Large Ontology from Wikipedia and WordNet | Web Semantics | 2008 | 615 |
| 17 | Presupposition Projection and the Semantics of Attitude Verbs | Journal of Semantics | 1992 | 614 |
| 18 | HTN planning for Web Service composition using SHOP2 | Web Semantics | 2004 | 600 |
| 19 | OWL 2: The next step for OWL | Web Semantics | 2008 | 592 |
| 20 | Referential and quantificational indefinites | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1982 | 582 |
| 21 | Events, processes, and states | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1978 | 575 |
| 22 | Context and Logical Form | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2000 | 574 |
| 23 | Fragments and ellipsis | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2005 | 570 |
| 24 | GIVENNESS, AVOIDF AND OTHER CONSTRAINTS ON THE PLACEMENT OF ACCENT* | Natural Language Semantics | 1999 | 552 |
| 25 | Nominal and temporal anaphora | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1984 | 541 |
| 26 | Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste* | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2005 | 537 |
| 27 | A survey of trust in computer science and the Semantic Web | Web Semantics | 2007 | 529 |
| 28 | COMPARING SEMANTIC THEORIES OF COMPARISON | Journal of Semantics | 1984 | 520 |
| 29 | Information structure in discourse: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics | Semantics and Pragmatics | 0 | 518 |
| 30 | Automated discovery, interaction and composition of Semantic Web services | Web Semantics | 2003 | 501 |
| 31 | Quantifier Scope: How labor is Divided Between QR and Choice Functions | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1997 | 494 |
| 32 | Collective knowledge systems: Where the Social Web meets the Semantic Web | Web Semantics | 2008 | 463 |
| 33 | The non-uniqueness of semantic solutions: Polysemy | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1979 | 460 |
| 34 | A semantic characterization of natural language determiners | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1986 | 437 |
| 35 | E-Type pronouns and donkey anaphora | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1990 | 436 |
| 36 | A semantics for positive and comparative adjectives | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1980 | 422 |
| 37 | A Plea For Monsters | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2003 | 411 |
| 38 | On D-Trees, Beans, And B-Accents | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2003 | 409 |
| 39 | Semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval | Web Semantics | 2004 | 399 |
| 40 | Sluicing and logical form | Natural Language Semantics | 1995 | 394 |
| 41 | Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics | Web Semantics | 2007 | 394 |
| 42 | A unified analysis of the English bare plural | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1977 | 391 |
| 43 | Evidence against the context-freeness of natural language | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1985 | 389 |
| 44 | Temporal interpretation, discourse relations and commonsense entailment | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1993 | 389 |
| 45 | NPI licensing, Strawson entailment, and context dependency | Journal of Semantics | 1999 | 382 |
| 46 | An investigation of the lumps of thought | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1989 | 377 |
| 47 | Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2004 | 372 |
| 48 | Semantic annotation for knowledge management: Requirements and a survey of the state of the art | Web Semantics | 2006 | 371 |
| 49 | TOWARDS A ‘NATURAL’ NARRATOLOGY | Journal of Literary Semantics | 1996 | 352 |
| 50 | Ellipsis and higher-order unification | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1991 | 345 |
| 51 | Any | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1993 | 343 |
| 52 | Indexicality and deixis | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1993 | 338 |
| 53 | Paul Grice and the philosophy of language | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1992 | 333 |
| 54 | Negative polarity and grammatical representation | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1987 | 329 |
| 55 | How performatives work | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1989 | 329 |
| 56 | Managing uncertainty and vagueness in description logics for the Semantic Web | Web Semantics | 2008 | 329 |
| 57 | Transfers of Meaning | Journal of Semantics | 1995 | 326 |
| 58 | Linked Data | Synthesis Lectures on Data, Semantics and Knowledge | 2011 | 324 |
| 59 | Modal subordination and pronominal anaphora in discourse | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1989 | 320 |
| 60 | Unarticulated Constituents | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2002 | 316 |
| 61 | Judge dependence, epistemic modals, and predicates of personal taste | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2007 | 305 |
| 62 | More Structural Analogies Between Pronouns and Tenses | Semantics and Linguistic Theory | 0 | 303 |
| 63 | Sequence of Tense and Temporal de re | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1997 | 298 |
| 64 | Groups, I | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1989 | 296 |
| 65 | The effects of aspectual class on the temporal structure of discourse: semantics or pragmatics? | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1986 | 294 |
| 66 | Query Answering for OWL-DL with rules | Web Semantics | 2005 | 285 |
| 67 | Some Aspects of Optimality in Natural Language Interpretation | Journal of Semantics | 2000 | 282 |
| 68 | Ontology matching with semantic verification | Web Semantics | 2009 | 276 |
| 69 | Towards a Variable-Free Semantics | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1999 | 273 |
| 70 | Flink: Semantic Web technology for the extraction and analysis of social networks | Web Semantics | 2005 | 270 |
| 71 | On Reacting to Assertions and Polar Questions | Journal of Semantics | 2010 | 268 |
| 72 | The progressive | Natural Language Semantics | 1992 | 267 |
| 73 | Toward a semantic analysis of verb aspect and the English ?imperfective? progressive | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1977 | 265 |
| 74 | Focus and Negative Polarity in Hindi | Natural Language Semantics | 1997 | 264 |
| 75 | SOSA: A lightweight ontology for sensors, observations, samples, and actuators | Web Semantics | 2019 | 264 |
| 76 | Semi-productive Polysemy and Sense Extension | Journal of Semantics | 1995 | 263 |
| 77 | On the order of words | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1982 | 260 |
| 78 | Free Choice Disjunction and Epistemic Possibility | Natural Language Semantics | 2000 | 259 |
| 79 | The different readings of wieder 'again': a structural account | Journal of Semantics | 1996 | 258 |
| 80 | On Negative Yes/No Questions | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2004 | 255 |
| 81 | OWL rules: A proposal and prototype implementation | Web Semantics | 2005 | 251 |
| 82 | Coherence and Coreference Revisited | Journal of Semantics | 2007 | 250 |
| 83 | Semantic Wikipedia | Web Semantics | 2007 | 249 |
| 84 | Intervention Effects Follow from Focus Interpretation* | Natural Language Semantics | 2006 | 247 |
| 85 | Coreference and bound anaphora: A restatement of the anaphora questions | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1983 | 245 |
| 86 | OWLS-MX: A hybrid Semantic Web service matchmaker for OWL-S services | Web Semantics | 2009 | 245 |
| 87 | Scalar Structure Underlies Telicity in "Degree Achievements" | Semantics and Linguistic Theory | 0 | 245 |
| 88 | Structurally-defined alternatives | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2007 | 244 |
| 89 | The environment ontology: contextualising biological and biomedical entities | Journal of Biomedical Semantics | 2013 | 244 |
| 90 | Aspectual classes and aspectual composition | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1989 | 242 |
| 91 | Completeness, decidability and complexity of entailment for RDF Schema and a semantic extension involving the OWL vocabulary | Web Semantics | 2005 | 238 |
| 92 | The Dynamics of Vagueness | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2002 | 232 |
| 93 | Sindice.com: a document-oriented lookup index for open linked data | International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies | 2008 | 230 |
| 94 | Degree Operators and Scope | Semantics and Linguistic Theory | 0 | 228 |
| 95 | The universal density of measurement | Linguistics and Philosophy | 2007 | 225 |
| 96 | Temporal anaphora in discourses of english | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1986 | 224 |
| 97 | Semantic Web in data mining and knowledge discovery: A comprehensive survey | Web Semantics | 2016 | 223 |
| 98 | A general Datalog-based framework for tractable query answering over ontologies | Web Semantics | 2012 | 222 |
| 99 | Weak islands and an algebraic semantics for scope taking | Natural Language Semantics | 1993 | 221 |
| 100 | Indefinite descriptions: In defense of russell | Linguistics and Philosophy | 1991 | 220 |
