--- title: "Allen Nie — author profile and papers" description: "Allen Nie, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2020), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allen-nie/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allen-nie/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Allen Nie # Allen Nie Allen Nie has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2020, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Christopher Potts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-potts/), [Noah D. Goodman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-d-goodman/), [Reuben Cohn-Gordon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reuben-cohn-gordon/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5018535992) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6483-2111) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130979903) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5018535992) · [48 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018535992) · [3,073 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018535992&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allen-nie/#papers) · [🔗 2,116 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allen-nie/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4842](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4842) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Allen+Nie) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Allen+Nie) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Allen+Nie) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Allen+Nie) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2017–2026 · 21 papersEducation since 2019 · PhD Student, Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom Employment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2[Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2020-pragmatic-issue-sensitive-image-captioning/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2019-dissent-learning-sentence-representations-explicit/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DisSent: Learning Sentence Representations from Explicit Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2019-dissent-learning-sentence-representations-explicit/)** *(2019 · 134 citations)* Good general-purpose sentence embeddings usually require either huge unlabeled corpora (as with BERT) or expensive hand-labeled sentence-pair data such as the entailment sets behind InferSent. 2. **[Pragmatic Issue-Sensitive Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2020-pragmatic-issue-sensitive-image-captioning/)** *(2020 · 20 citations)* The paper argues that a good caption must be both true and relevant to what the reader currently cares about. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[DisSent: Learning Sentence Representations from Explicit Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2019-dissent-learning-sentence-representations-explicit/)**Allen Nie, Erin Bennett, Noah Goodman*[Annual Meeting of the Association for…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) · 134 citations* 2. **[MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19677) (original ↗)**Allen Nie et al.*2023 · arXiv:2310.19677 · 39 citations · no summary yet* 3. **[Pragmatic Issue-Sensitive Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2020-pragmatic-issue-sensitive-image-captioning/)**Allen Nie, Reuben Cohn-Gordon, Christopher Potts*[Findings of the Association for Computational…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) · 20 citations* 4. **[EVOLvE: Evaluating and Optimizing LLMs For In-Context Exploration](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06238) (original ↗)**Allen Nie et al.*2024 · arXiv:2410.06238 · 7 citations · no summary yet* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Christopher Potts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-potts/) - [Noah D. Goodman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-d-goodman/) - [Reuben Cohn-Gordon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reuben-cohn-gordon/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2019/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2020/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,116 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [276 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allen-nie/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026