--- title: "Evelina Fedorenko — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Evelina Fedorenko, Harvard University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 71 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evelina-fedorenko/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evelina-fedorenko/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Evelina Fedorenko # Evelina Fedorenko Evelina Fedorenko has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Alessandro Lenci](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-lenci/), [Anna A. Ivanova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-a-ivanova/), [Carina Kauf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carina-kauf/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5081808595) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-514X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56879148) · [**h-index 71**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5081808595) · [305 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081808595) · [17,032 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081808595&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evelina-fedorenko/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 116 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evelina-fedorenko/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6015) 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=Evelina+Fedorenko) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Evelina+Fedorenko) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Evelina+Fedorenko) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Evelina+Fedorenko) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2003–2026 · 244 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**McGovern Institute for Brain Research** Cambridge · United States 2009–2026 · 123 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mcgovern-institute-for-brain-research/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2003–2026 · 79 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🏥**Massachusetts General Hospital** Boston · United States 2014–2020 · 50 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/massachusetts-general-hospital/) · [🎓**ETH Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🏥**Marion General Hospital** Marion · United States 2016–2019 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/0264gtk20) 🏛️**Harvard College** Cambridge · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) Education From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 4 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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evelina-fedorenko/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evelina-fedorenko/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A fine-grained comparison of pragmatic language understanding in humans and language models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hu-2023-fine-grained-comparison-pragmatic-language/)** *(2023 · 136 citations)* Seven pragmatic phenomena (white lies, indirect requests, irony, flouted maxims, metaphor, humour, coherence) are tested with expert-written multiple-choice items: a 1–3 sentence story, a character's utterance, and «what did they mean?». 2. **[Log Probabilities Are a Reliable Estimate of Semantic Plausibility in Base and Instruction-Tuned Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kauf-2024-log-probabilities-reliable-estimate-semantic/)** *(2024 · 29 citations)* The paper asks whether explicit prompting or log probabilities (LogProbs) give a better measure of how much language models know about semantic plausibility, which serves as a proxy for world knowledge. ## All works 4 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. **[Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07522-w) Nature · no summary yet**Evelina G. Fedorenko, Steven T. Piantadosi, Edward A. F. Gibson*2024 · 204 citations* 2. [**A fine-grained comparison of pragmatic language understanding in humans and language models**Jennifer Hu, Sammy Floyd, Olessia Jouravlev, et al.*English · 136 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hu-2023-fine-grained-comparison-pragmatic-language/) 3. **[Semantic encoding during language comprehension at single-cell resolution ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07643-2) Nature · no summary yet**Mohsen Jamali et al.*2024 · 65 citations* 4. [**Log Probabilities Are a Reliable Estimate of Semantic Plausibility in Base and Instruction-Tuned Language Models arXiv:2403.14859**Carina Kauf, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, et al.*2024 · 29 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kauf-2024-log-probabilities-reliable-estimate-semantic/) ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alessandro Lenci](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-lenci/) - [Anna A. Ivanova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-a-ivanova/) - [Carina Kauf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carina-kauf/) - [Edward Gibson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-gibson/) - [Emmanuele Chersoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emmanuele-chersoni/) - [Jennifer Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennifer-hu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Nature ×2 - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 116 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [37 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evelina-fedorenko/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026