Jonathan May

96 papers · 2006–2026 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌍 Conference Polyglot (12) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (14) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🏃 Academic Marathon (19) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (5) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (16) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (3) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (28) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (15) 👥 Mega-Team (20) 🔬 Deep Specialist (16) 🧬 Topic Evolution 🏆 Keyword Champion ❓ The Questioner (9) 💎 Century Club (95) 📈 Trend Setter 🚀 Conference Pioneer 🔥 Unstoppable (11) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (368) ⚡ Prolific Year (6)

Conferences

EMNLP (28) ACL (27) NAACL (20) IJCNLP (7) SEMEVAL (4) CONLL (2) EACL (2) NIPS (2) COLING (1) ICLR (1) IJCAI (1) INTERSPEECH (1)

Top co-authors

Kevin Knight (15) Nanyun Peng (11) Heng Ji (11) Alexander Spangher (9) Thamme Gowda (7) Hyundong Cho (7) Xuezhe Ma (7) Xiang Ren (5) Emilio Ferrara (5) Ulf Hermjakob (5)

Research topics

Digital Humanities (2) Linguistics (1)

Keywords

transfer learning (10) cross-lingual transfer (10) low-resource language (8) large language model (8) language model (7) event extraction (6) question answering (6) neural machine translation (5) named entity recognition (5) dialogue system (5) machine translation (5) few-shot learning (4) text generation (4) text classification (4) reinforcement learning (4) multilingual model (4) entity linking (3) information extraction (3) commonsense reasoning (3) word embedding (3)

Papers

A Representation Sharpening Framework for Zero Shot Dense Retrieval EACL 2026

A Little Human Data Goes A Long Way ACL 2025

Should I Trust You? Detecting Deception in Negotiations using Counterfactual RL ACL 2025

The Million Authors Corpus: A Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Wikipedia Dataset for Authorship Verification ACL 2025

Can Vision Language Models Understand Mimed Actions? ACL 2025

Learning to Rewrite Negation Queries in Product Search COLING 2025

NewsInterview: a Dataset and a Playground to Evaluate LLMs’ Grounding Gap via Informational Interviews ACL 2025

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? EMNLP 2025

Teaching Language Models To Gather Information Proactively EMNLP 2025

Tuning-Free Personalized Alignment via Trial-Error-Explain In-Context Learning NAACL 2025

Personalized Help for Optimizing Low-Skilled Users’ Strategy NAACL 2025

Style Transfer with Multi-iteration Preference Optimization NAACL 2025

R2D2: Remembering, Replaying and Dynamic Decision Making with a Reflective Agentic Memory ACL 2025

Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Human-Level Narratives? EMNLP 2024

Speechworthy Instruction-tuned Language Models EMNLP 2024

LegalDiscourse: Interpreting When Laws Apply and To Whom NAACL 2024

GPT is Not an Annotator: The Necessity of Human Annotation in Fairness Benchmark Construction ACL 2024

Tracking the Newsworthiness of Public Documents ACL 2024

Leitner-Guided Memory Replay for Cross-lingual Continual Learning NAACL 2024

Can Language Model Moderators Improve the Health of Online Discourse? NAACL 2024

Megalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length NIPS 2024

BotEval: Facilitating Interactive Human Evaluation ACL 2024

More Victories, Less Cooperation: Assessing Cicero’s Diplomacy Play ACL 2024

Explaining Mixtures of Sources in News Articles EMNLP 2024

Identifying Informational Sources in News Articles EMNLP 2023

Mega: Moving Average Equipped Gated Attention ICLR 2023

Cross-lingual Continual Learning ACL 2023

RECAP: Retrieval-Enhanced Context-Aware Prefix Encoder for Personalized Dialogue Response Generation ACL 2023

WinoQueer: A Community-in-the-Loop Benchmark for Anti-LGBTQ+ Bias in Large Language Models ACL 2023

Know Where You’re Going: Meta-Learning for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning ACL 2023

Challenges in Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2023

Continual Dialogue State Tracking via Example-Guided Question Answering EMNLP 2023

Bridging the Gap between Native Text and Translated Text through Adversarial Learning: A Case Study on Cross-Lingual Event Extraction EACL 2023

Analyzing Norm Violations in Live-Stream Chat EMNLP 2023

Opponent Modeling in Negotiation Dialogues by Related Data Adaptation NAACL 2022

Segmenting Numerical Substitution Ciphers EMNLP 2022

Machine Translation Robustness to Natural Asemantic Variation EMNLP 2022

Know Thy Strengths: Comprehensive Dialogue State Tracking Diagnostics EMNLP 2022

Investigating the Benefits of Free-Form Rationales EMNLP 2022

NewsEdits: A News Article Revision Dataset and a Novel Document-Level Reasoning Challenge NAACL 2022

Augmenting Training Data for Massive Semantic Matching Models in Low-Traffic E-commerce Stores NAACL 2022

Building an Event Extractor with Only a Few Examples NAACL 2022

Can Sequence-to-Sequence Models Crack Substitution Ciphers? IJCNLP 2021

Summary-Oriented Question Generation for Informational Queries IJCNLP 2021

Many-to-English Machine Translation Tools, Data, and Pretrained Models IJCNLP 2021

Summary-Oriented Question Generation for Informational Queries ACL 2021

Many-to-English Machine Translation Tools, Data, and Pretrained Models ACL 2021

Can Sequence-to-Sequence Models Crack Substitution Ciphers? ACL 2021

WARP: Word-level Adversarial ReProgramming ACL 2021

Multitask Semi-Supervised Learning for Class-Imbalanced Discourse Classification EMNLP 2021

WARP: Word-level Adversarial ReProgramming IJCNLP 2021

Salience-Aware Event Chain Modeling for Narrative Understanding EMNLP 2021

Cross-Attention is All You Need: Adapting Pretrained Transformers for Machine Translation EMNLP 2021

Luna: Linear Unified Nested Attention NIPS 2021

X-METRA-ADA: Cross-lingual Meta-Transfer learning Adaptation to Natural Language Understanding and Question Answering NAACL 2021

CaSiNo: A Corpus of Campsite Negotiation Dialogues for Automatic Negotiation Systems NAACL 2021

Macro-Average: Rare Types Are Important Too NAACL 2021

Finding the Optimal Vocabulary Size for Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2020

Enabling Low-Resource Transfer Learning across COVID-19 Corpora by Combining Event-Extraction and Co-Training ACL 2020

Learning to Generalize for Sequential Decision Making EMNLP 2020

Grounding Conversations with Improvised Dialogues ACL 2020

Experience Grounds Language EMNLP 2020

Connecting the Dots: Event Graph Schema Induction with Path Language Modeling EMNLP 2020

Cross-lingual Structure Transfer for Relation and Event Extraction IJCNLP 2019

Contextualized Cross-Lingual Event Trigger Extraction with Minimal Resources CONLL 2019

Do Nuclear Submarines Have Nuclear Captains? A Challenge Dataset for Commonsense Reasoning over Adjectives and Objects IJCNLP 2019

What Matters for Neural Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition: An Empirical Analysis IJCNLP 2019

A Grounded Unsupervised Universal Part-of-Speech Tagger for Low-Resource Languages NAACL 2019

Cross-lingual Multi-Level Adversarial Transfer to Enhance Low-Resource Name Tagging NAACL 2019

Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation SEMEVAL 2019

SARAL: A Low-Resource Cross-Lingual Domain-Focused Information Retrieval System for Effective Rapid Document Triage ACL 2019

Translating Translationese: A Two-Step Approach to Unsupervised Machine Translation ACL 2019

Cross-lingual Structure Transfer for Relation and Event Extraction EMNLP 2019

Do Nuclear Submarines Have Nuclear Captains? A Challenge Dataset for Commonsense Reasoning over Adjectives and Objects EMNLP 2019

What Matters for Neural Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition: An Empirical Analysis EMNLP 2019

Cross-lingual Joint Entity and Word Embedding to Improve Entity Linking and Parallel Sentence Mining EMNLP 2019

Translating a Language You Don’t Know In the Chinese Room ACL 2018

Out-of-the-box Universal Romanization Tool uroman ACL 2018

Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation SEMEVAL 2018

Recurrent Neural Networks as Weighted Language Recognizers NAACL 2018

ELISA-EDL: A Cross-lingual Entity Extraction, Linking and Localization System NAACL 2018

Towards Controllable Story Generation NAACL 2018

Team ELISA System for DARPA LORELEI Speech Evaluation 2016 INTERSPEECH 2017

Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages ACL 2017

SemEval-2017 Task 9: Abstract Meaning Representation Parsing and Generation SEMEVAL 2017

Simple, Fast Noise-Contrastive Estimation for Large RNN Vocabularies NAACL 2016

SemEval-2016 Task 8: Meaning Representation Parsing SEMEVAL 2016

Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2016

Parsing English into Abstract Meaning Representation Using Syntax-Based Machine Translation EMNLP 2015

Identifying Useful Human Correction Feedback from an On-line Machine Translation Service IJCAI 2013

Models of Translation Competitions ACL 2013

Tuning as Ranking EMNLP 2011

Efficient Inference through Cascades of Weighted Tree Transducers ACL 2010

Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation EMNLP 2007

Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation CONLL 2007

A Better N-Best List: Practical Determinization of Weighted Finite Tree Automata NAACL 2006