--- title: "Cory Shain — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Cory Shain, Center for Applied Linguistics: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2026), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cory-shain/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cory-shain/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Cory Shain # Cory Shain Cory Shain has 3 papers in our library, in 2017–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [David King](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-king/), [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-mahowald/), [Leonie Weissweiler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonie-weissweiler/). 3 papers in our library · 2017–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5033058937) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2704-7197) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5033058937) · [92 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033058937) · [1,138 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033058937&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cory-shain/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 24 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cory-shain/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7999](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/80/#star-7999) 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=Cory+Shain) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Cory+Shain) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Cory+Shain) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Cory+Shain) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2019–2026 · 21 papersEmployment since 2024 · Assistant Professor, Linguistics*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2021–2026 · 18 papersEmployment 2021–2024 · Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain & Cognitive Sciences*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🤝**Center for Applied Linguistics** Washington · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/020pekv35) · [🎓**The Ohio State University** Columbus · United States 2008–2025 · 20 papersEmployment 2016–2021 · Graduate student, Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-ohio-state-university/) · [🔬**McGovern Institute for Brain Research** Cambridge · United States 2021–2024 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mcgovern-institute-for-brain-research/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [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/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Implicature · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/implicature/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cory-shain/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cory-shain/year/2025/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cory-shain/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Breaking NLP: Using Morphosyntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and World Knowledge to Fool Sentiment Analysis Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahler-2017-breaking-nlp-morphosyntax-semantics-pragmatics/)** *(2017 · 34 citations)* The authors, a team from The Ohio State University, took part as "breakers" in the "Build It Break It" sentiment analysis competition held at EMNLP in 2017. 2. **[Constructions are Revealed in Word Distributions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rozner-2025-constructions-are-revealed-word-distributions/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Construction Grammar holds that form-meaning pairings are learned from exposure to language. This paper asks how much constructional information the distribution over word strings actually carries. Plain corpus counts cannot answer causal "what made this word appear here" questions. The authors therefore use RoBERTa… 3. **[The Text Aphasia Battery (TAB): A Clinically-Grounded Benchmark for Aphasia-Like Deficits in Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roll-2026-text-aphasia-battery-tab-clinically/)** *(2026)* Clinical aphasia tests assume a human patient who can see pictures, hear speech, gesture and reflect on their own performance. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David King](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-king/) - [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-mahowald/) - [Leonie Weissweiler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonie-weissweiler/) - [Marie-Catherine de Marneffe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marie-catherine-de-marneffe/) - [Micha Elsner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/micha-elsner/) - [Michael White](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-white/) - [Nathan Roll](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-roll/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clpsych/): [Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/clpsych/2026/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - Proceedings of the First Workshop on Building Linguistically Generalizable NLP Systems ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 24 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cory-shain/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026