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# Ben Zhou

Ben Zhou has 4 papers in our library, in 2018–2026, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Qiang Ning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiang-ning/), [Ally Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ally-zhang/), [Ben Bogin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-bogin/).

4 papers in our library · 2018–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5020349386) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1684-3719) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5020349386) · [34 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020349386) · [874 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020349386&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-zhou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 720 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-zhou/cited-by/) · [14 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3380](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3380)

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=Ben+Zhou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ben+Zhou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ben+Zhou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ben+Zhou)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Arizona State University** Tempe · United States 2024–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/arizona-state-university/) · [🔬**Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry** Shanghai · China 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/05mqm5297) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2019–2024 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2018–2019 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/)

🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/)

💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Lemma · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/lemma/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-zhou/year/2026/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-zhou/year/2020/)

### 2010s

[**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-zhou/year/2018/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Evaluating Models' Local Decision Boundaries via Contrast Sets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gardner-2020-evaluating-models-local-decision-boundaries/)** *(2020 · 531 citations)* Standard test sets come from the same distribution as the training data, so a dataset with systematic gaps or annotation artifacts lets models score well with shallow heuristics.
2. **[CogCompTime: A Tool for Understanding Time in Natural Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ning-2018-cogcomptime-tool-understanding-time-natural/)** *(2018 · 93 citations)* CogCompTime is a publicly available system for extracting temporal information from raw English text. It covers two tasks. The first is finding explicit time expressions (Timexes) and converting them to a standard format. The second is recovering the implicit ordering of events through temporal relations (TempRels).
3. **[RECAP: Transparent Inference-Time Emotion Alignment for Medical Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/srinivasan-2026-recap-transparent-inference-time-emotion/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Medical chatbots built on large language models often give answers that are clinically correct but emotionally flat.
4. **[Reliable Use of Lemmas via Eligibility Reasoning and Section-Aware Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-reliable-use-lemmas-eligibility-reasoning/)** *(2026)* Large language models can score well on math benchmarks yet still invoke lemmas whose hypotheses do not hold in the given context.

## All works

18 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. [**Evaluating Models' Local Decision Boundaries via Contrast Sets**Matt Gardner, Yoav Artzi, Victoria Basmov, et al.*Mova's core list · 531 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gardner-2020-evaluating-models-local-decision-boundaries/)
2. **[“Going on a vacation” takes longer than “Going for a walk”: A Study of Temporal Commonsense Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1332/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yet**Ben Zhou et al.*2019 · 283 citations*
3. **[Temporal Common Sense Acquisition with Minimal Supervision ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.678/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Ben Zhou et al.*2020 · 140 citations*
4. **[Temporal Reasoning on Implicit Events from Distant Supervision ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.107/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Ben Zhou et al.*2021 · 111 citations*
5. **[CogCompTime: A Tool for Understanding Time in Natural Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ning-2018-cogcomptime-tool-understanding-time-natural/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Qiang Ning, Ben Zhou, Zhili Feng, et al.*2018 · 93 citations*
6. **[RESIN: A Dockerized Schema-Guided Cross-document Cross-lingual Cross-media Information Extraction and Event Tracking System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-demos.16/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations · no summary yet**Haoyang Wen et al.*2021 · 83 citations*
7. **[Zero-Shot Open Entity Typing as Type-Compatible Grounding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1231/) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Ben Zhou et al.*2018 · 76 citations*
8. **[CogCompNLP: Your Swiss Army Knife for NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L18-1086/) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) · no summary yet**Daniel Khashabi et al.*2018 · 50 citations*
9. **[Cross-lingual Entity Alignment with Incidental Supervision ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.53/) Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume · no summary yet**Muhao Chen et al.*2021 · 49 citations*
10. **[Deceptive Semantic Shortcuts on Reasoning Chains: How Far Can Models Go without Hallucination? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.424/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Bangzheng Li et al.*2024 · 22 citations*
11. **[BIRD: A Trustworthy Bayesian Inference Framework for Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12494) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Feng, Yu et al.*2024 · 13 citations*
12. **[Indirectly Supervised Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-tutorials.5/) Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts) · no summary yet**Wenpeng Yin et al.*2023 · 7 citations*
13. **[FamiCom: Further Demystifying Prompts for Language Models with Task-Agnostic Performance Estimation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11243) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Bangzheng Li et al.*2024 · 6 citations*
14. **[CogCompTime: A Tool for Understanding Time in Natural Language Text ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04940) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Qiang Ning et al.*2019 · 2 citations*
15. **[RECAP: Transparent Inference-Time Emotion Alignment for Medical Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/srinivasan-2026-recap-transparent-inference-time-emotion/) [Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing (Clinical NLP) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clinicalnlp/)**Adarsh Srinivasan, Jacob Dineen, Muhammad Uzair Sarfraz, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
16. **[Self-supervised Analogical Learning using Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00996) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Ben Zhou et al.*2025 · 1 citation*
17. **[Building Interpretable and Reliable Open Information Retriever for New Domains Overnight ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04756) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Xiaodong Yu, Ben Zhou, Dan Roth*2023 · 1 citation*
18. **[Reliable Use of Lemmas via Eligibility Reasoning and Section-Aware Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-reliable-use-lemmas-eligibility-reasoning/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zhikun Xu, Xiaodong Yu, Ben Zhou, et al.*2026*

## Co-authors here

12 of 34 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Qiang Ning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiang-ning/) ×2
- [Ally Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ally-zhang/)
- [Ben Bogin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-bogin/)
- [Dan Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/)
- [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/)
- [Dheeru Dua](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dheeru-dua/)
- [Eric Wallace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wallace/)
- [Gabriel Ilharco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriel-ilharco/)
- [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/)
- [Hao Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-chen/)
- [Haoruo Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoruo-peng/)
- [Jialian Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialian-wu/)

## 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 Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×3: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/)
- [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2018/)
- Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) ×2
- [Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing (Clinical NLP) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clinicalnlp/): [Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing (Clinical NLP) @ LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clinicalnlp/2026/)
- [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2020/)
- Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations
- Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 720 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [92 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-zhou/cited-by/).

Updated 31 October 2026