--- title: "Elsi Kaiser — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 27 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elsi-kaiser/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elsi-kaiser/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Elsi Kaiser # Elsi Kaiser Elsi Kaiser has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with [Hailin Hao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hailin-hao/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039738315) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3594-4127) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91847609) · [**h-index 27**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039738315) · [183 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039738315) · [2,645 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039738315&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elsi-kaiser/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1 time in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elsi-kaiser/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7470](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/75/#star-7470) 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=Elsi+Kaiser) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Elsi+Kaiser) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Elsi+Kaiser) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Elsi+Kaiser) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2005–2026 · 109 papersEmployment · Linguistics*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2004–2005 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Human-Computer Interaction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/human-computer-interaction/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Neuroscience · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elsi-kaiser/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elsi-kaiser/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Discourse anaphoricity vs. perspective sensitivity in emoji semantics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/grosz-2023-discourse-anaphoricity-vs-perspective-sensitivity/)** *(2023 · 62 citations)* The paper asks how emoji combine with the text around them and argues that two families behave in semantically different ways. 2. **[Uniform Information Density and Syntactic Reduction: Revisiting *that*-Mentioning in English Complement Clauses](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hao-2025-uniform-information-density-syntactic-reduction/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* The paper re-tests a classic Uniform Information Density (UID) result: English speakers tend to drop the optional complementizer that when the following complement clause (CC) is predictable. They tend to keep it when the CC is surprising. 3. **[Uniform Information Density and Syntactic Reduction: Revisiting that-Mentioning in English Complement Clauses](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hao-2025-uniform-information-density-syntactic-reduction-revisiting/)** *(2025)* The optional complementizer that ("the boss complained (that) they were crazy") is omitted more often when the complement clause is predictable. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hailin Hao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hailin-hao/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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/) - [Glossa a journal of general linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/glossa-a-journal-of-general-linguistics/): [Glossa a journal of general linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/glossa-a-journal-of-general-linguistics/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elsi-kaiser/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026