--- title: "Ashton Anderson — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Ashton Anderson, University of Toronto: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 25 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashton-anderson/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashton-anderson/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ashton Anderson # Ashton Anderson Ashton Anderson has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Ece Kamar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ece-kamar/), [Eric Horvitz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-horvitz/), [Robert West](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-west/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5048789742) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3089-6883) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87764706) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5048789742) · [81 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048789742) · [3,786 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048789742&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashton-anderson/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 110 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashton-anderson/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11269](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/113/#star-11269) 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=Ashton+Anderson) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ashton+Anderson) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ashton+Anderson) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ashton+Anderson) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2017–2026 · 71 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2010–2015 · 13 papersEducation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2016–2017 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🏢**Microsoft Research New York City** New York · United States 2016–2017 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-new-york-city/) · [🎓**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München** Munich · Germany 2026 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 2014–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashton-anderson/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashton-anderson/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ChatBench: From Static Benchmarks to Human-AI Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2025-chatbench-static-benchmarks-human-ai/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Benchmarks such as MMLU test LLMs in isolation, but people use chatbots through open-ended dialogue. This paper asks whether "AI-alone" scores reflect how well a person does when working with a model. The authors turned MMLU questions into conversations. Prolific workers received a question, answered it on their own… 2. **[Tandem Training for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/west-2026-tandem-training-language-models/)** *(2026)* As language models grow more capable, their reasoning may become hard for humans or weaker systems to follow, which complicates oversight and collaboration. ## All works 12 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. **[Engaging with massive online courses ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2566486.2568042) International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · no summary yet**Ashton Anderson et al.*2014 · 507 citations* 2. **[Steering user behavior with badges ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2488388.2488398) International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · no summary yet**Ashton Anderson et al.*2013 · 360 citations* 3. **[Discovering value from community activity on focused question answering sites ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2339530.2339665) ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yet**Ashton Anderson et al.*2012 · 358 citations* 4. **[Understanding the Origins of Bias in Word Embeddings ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03611) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Marc-Etienne Brunet et al.*2018 · 145 citations* 5. **[Effects of user similarity in social media ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2124295.2124378) ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) · no summary yet**Ashton Anderson et al.*2012 · 128 citations* 6. **[Towards a Computational History of the ACL: 1980-2008 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W12-3202/) Proceedings of the ACL-2012 Special Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries · no summary yet**Ashton Anderson, Dan Jurafsky, Daniel A. McFarland*2012 · 76 citations* 7. **[Global Diffusion via Cascading Invitations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2736277.2741672) International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · no summary yet**Ashton Anderson et al.*2015 · 65 citations* 8. **[ChatBench: From Static Benchmarks to Human-AI Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2025-chatbench-static-benchmarks-human-ai/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Serina Chang, Ashton Anderson, Jake M. Hofman*2025 · 9 citations* 9. **[Discovering Value from Community Activity on Focused Question Answering Sites: A Case Study of Stack Overflow ↗](https://openalex.org/W7098291748) no summary yet**Ashton Anderson et al.*2012 · 6 citations* 10. **[ICL Markup: Structuring In-Context Learning using Soft-Token Tags ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07405) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Marc-Etienne Brunet, Ashton Anderson, Richard S. Zemel*2023 · 3 citations* 11. **[Global Diffusion via Cascading Invitations: Structure, Growth, and Homophily ↗](https://openalex.org/W7098078256) no summary yet**Ashton Anderson et al.*2015 · 1 citation* 12. **[Tandem Training for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/west-2026-tandem-training-language-models/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Robert West, Ashton Anderson, Ece Kamar, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ece Kamar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ece-kamar/) - [Eric Horvitz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-horvitz/) - [Robert West](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-west/) - [Serina Y. Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/serina-y-chang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) ×3 - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) - ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - Proceedings of the ACL-2012 Special Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 110 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashton-anderson/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026