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# Christopher Pal

Christopher Pal has 4 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Knowledge graphs & ontologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/); often with [Jonathan Pilault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-pilault/), [Gaurav Sahu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-sahu/), [Issam Laradji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-laradji/).

4 papers in our library · 2020–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5075885606) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6534-2114) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112510273) · [**h-index 32**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5075885606) · [205 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5075885606) · [8,453 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5075885606&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-pal/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 330 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-pal/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4938](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4938)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Polytechnique Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2009–2026 · 149 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/polytechnique-montreal/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2016–2026 · 37 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) · [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2013–2026 · 21 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) · [🔬**Canadian Institute for Advanced Research** Toronto · Canada 2019–2026 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2005–2007 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, Baltimore County** Baltimore · United States 2025 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/) · [🎓**University of Waikato** Hamilton · New Zealand 2025 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waikato/) · [🎓**University of Rochester** Rochester · United States 2007–2011 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-rochester/) · [🏢**ServiceNow** Santa Clara · United States 2022–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/servicenow/) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 1998–2002 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 14 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 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/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/statistics-probability-and-uncertainty/)

🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-pal/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-pal/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-pal/year/2023/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-pal/year/2020/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[On Extractive and Abstractive Neural Document Summarization with Transformer Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pilault-2020-extractive-abstractive-neural-document-summarization/)** *(2020 · 261 citations)* Neural abstractive models struggle with documents several thousand words long. Recurrent seq2seq systems handle long-range dependencies poorly, and transformer language models (TLMs) cannot fit such long inputs in memory. The authors propose a two-stage hybrid. First, an extractive sentence pointer network selects…
2. **[Block-State Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fathi-2023-block-state-transformers/)** *(2023 · 20 citations)* Transformers handle language modeling well, but attention cost grows quadratically with input length, and they generalize poorly to long contexts.
3. **[LitLLMs, LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2024-litllms-llms-literature-review-there/)** *(2024 · 16 citations)* The paper asks whether current LLMs can help researchers draft the related-work section of a paper, starting from only an abstract or a short description of an idea.
4. **[Reducing Hallucinations in Language Model-based SPARQL Query Generation Using Post-Generation Memory Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2026-reducing-hallucinations-language-model-based/)** *(2026 · 5 citations)* LLMs that turn natural-language questions into SPARQL for Wikidata often invent identifiers. Wikidata URIs such as Q- and P-ids carry no meaning, so the model has to recall them from parametric memory, and it frequently produces IDs that look plausible but are wrong or do not exist. The authors propose PGMR…

## All works

14 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. **[On Extractive and Abstractive Neural Document Summarization with Transformer Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pilault-2020-extractive-abstractive-neural-document-summarization/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Jonathan Pilault, Raymond Li, Sandeep Subramanian, et al.*2020 · 261 citations*
2. **[Describing Videos by Exploiting Temporal Structure ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.08029) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Yao, Li et al.*2015 · 193 citations*
3. **[Do Neural Dialog Systems Use the Conversation History Effectively? An Empirical Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1004/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Chinnadhurai Sankar et al.*2019 · 174 citations*
4. **[Revision in Continuous Space: Unsupervised Text Style Transfer without Adversarial Learning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12304) arXiv:1905.12304 · no summary yet**Dayiheng Liu et al.*2019 · 73 citations*
5. **[LitLLM: A Toolkit for Scientific Literature Review ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01788) arXiv:2402.01788 · no summary yet**Shubham Agarwal et al.*2024 · 45 citations*
6. **[Video Description Generation Incorporating Spatio-Temporal Features and a Soft-Attention Mechanism ↗](http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/corr/corr1502.html#YaoTCBPLC15) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Yao Li et al.*2015 · 43 citations*
7. **[DuoRAT: Towards Simpler Text-to-SQL Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.103/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Torsten Scholak et al.*2021 · 24 citations*
8. **[Would you Rather? A New Benchmark for Learning Machine Alignment with Cultural Values and Social Preferences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.477/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Yi Tay et al.*2020 · 22 citations*
9. **[Interactive Machine Comprehension with Information Seeking Agents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.211/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Xingdi Yuan et al.*2020 · 21 citations*
10. [**Block-State Transformers arXiv:2306.09539**Mahan Fathi, Jonathan Pilault, Orhan Firat, et al.*2023 · 20 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fathi-2023-block-state-transformers/)
11. [**LitLLMs, LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet? arXiv:2412.15249**Shubham Agarwal, Gaurav Sahu, Abhay Puri, et al.*2024 · 16 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2024-litllms-llms-literature-review-there/)
12. **[Reducing Hallucinations in Language Model-based SPARQL Query Generation Using Post-Generation Memory Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2026-reducing-hallucinations-language-model-based/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Aditya Sharma, Christopher Pal, Amal Zouaq*2026 · 5 citations*
13. **[LLMs can learn self-restraint through iterative self-reflection ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13022) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Alexandre Piché et al.*2024 · 4 citations*
14. **[BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Finetuning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09804) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Ahmed Masry et al.*2025 · 3 citations*

## Co-authors here

9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Jonathan Pilault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-pilault/) ×2
- [Gaurav Sahu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-sahu/)
- [Issam Laradji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-laradji/)
- [Krishnamurthy Dvijotham](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/krishnamurthy-dvijotham/)
- [Laurent Charlin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-charlin/)
- [Orhan Firat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/orhan-firat/)
- [Raymond Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raymond-li/)
- [Sandeep Subramanian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandeep-subramanian/)
- [Shubham Agarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shubham-agarwal/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ×3
- [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2020/)
- [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/)
- Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 330 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [45 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-pal/cited-by/).

Updated 1 November 2026