--- title: "Chen Shani · Tel Aviv University — author profile and papers" description: "Chen Shani, Tel Aviv University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-shani/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-shani/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chen Shani # Chen Shani Chen Shani has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Dafna Shahaf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dafna-shahaf/), [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/), [Gabriel Stanovsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriel-stanovsky/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5028154693) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4902-616X) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5028154693) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5028154693) · [174 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5028154693&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-shani/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 9 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-shani/cited-by/) · [7 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11922](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/120/#star-11922) 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=Chen+Shani) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chen+Shani) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chen+Shani) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chen+Shani) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2025–2026 · 19 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Tel Aviv University** Tel Aviv · Israel 2026 · 4 papersEmployment since 2026 · Senior Lecturer, School of Industrial & Intelligent Systems Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) · [🎓**Hebrew University of Jerusalem** Jerusalem · Israel 2020–2023 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 · 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/) · [Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-shani/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[One Joke to Rule them All? On the (Im)possibility of Generalizing Humor Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turgeman-2026-one-joke-rule-them-all/)** *(2026)* Computational humor research usually builds a separate model for each narrow genre, such as puns, memes or sarcasm. 2. **[🧑‍🍳 Cooking Up Creativity: Enhancing LLM Creativity through Structured Recombination](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mizrahi-2026-cooking-up-creativity-enhancing-llm/)** *(2026)* LLMs write fluent text but tend to repeat familiar patterns when asked for original ideas. Raising temperature only adds token-level randomness and does not produce new concepts. The authors move the creative step outside the model. An LLM turns textual ideas into structured representations, an algorithm recombines… ## All works 9 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. **[Labeling messages as AI-generated does not reduce their persuasive effects ↗](https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag008) PNAS Nexus · no summary yet**Isabel O. Gallegos et al.*2026 · 16 citations* 2. **[From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17117) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Chen Shani et al.*2025 · 5 citations* 3. **[Rethinking Word Similarity: Semantic Similarity through Classification Confusion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.299/) Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Kaitlyn Zhou et al.*2025 · 4 citations* 4. **[The Roots of Performance Disparity in Multilingual Language Models: Intrinsic Modeling Difficulty or Design Choices? ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07220) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Chen Shani et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 5. **[Beyond Tokens: Concept-Level Training Objectives for LLMs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-short.34/) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Laya Iyer et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 6. **[One Joke to Rule them All? On the (Im)possibility of Generalizing Humor Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turgeman-2026-one-joke-rule-them-all/) [Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/)**Mor Turgeman, Chen Shani, Dafna Shahaf*2026* 7. **[🧑‍🍳 Cooking Up Creativity: Enhancing LLM Creativity through Structured Recombination](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mizrahi-2026-cooking-up-creativity-enhancing-llm/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Moran Mizrahi, Chen Shani, Gabriel Stanovsky, et al.*2026* 8. **[Categorize Early, Integrate Late: Divergent Processing Strategies in Automatic Speech Recognition ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06972) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Nathan Roll et al.*2026* 9. **[Learning Concepts, Not Tokens: Self-Supervised Semantic Alignment for Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29123) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Christine Zhang, Dan Jurafsky, Chen Shani*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dafna Shahaf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dafna-shahaf/) ×2 - [Dan Jurafsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-jurafsky/) - [Gabriel Stanovsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriel-stanovsky/) - [Moran Mizrahi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moran-mizrahi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Computational Humor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/): [Workshop on Computational Humor 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/chum/2026/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/) - PNAS Nexus - Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) - Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-shani/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026