--- title: "Francis Ferraro — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Francis Ferraro, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2020), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francis-ferraro/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francis-ferraro/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Francis Ferraro # Francis Ferraro Francis Ferraro has 3 papers in our library, in 2015–2020, most of them on [Historical linguistics & language change](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/); often with [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/), [Kyle Rawlins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-rawlins/), [Rachel Rudinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rachel-rudinger/). 3 papers in our library · 2015–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5056541993) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2413-9368) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130808167) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5056541993) · [105 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056541993) · [885 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056541993&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francis-ferraro/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 226 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francis-ferraro/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3450](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/35/#star-3450) 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=Francis+Ferraro) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Francis+Ferraro) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Francis+Ferraro) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Francis+Ferraro) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Maryland, Baltimore County** Baltimore · United States 2017–2026 · 67 papersEmployment 2017–2024 · Assistant ProfessorEmployment since 2024 · Associate Professor*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2011–2017 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2019–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) 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. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Historical linguistics & language change · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper Francis Ferraro's papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/white-2020-universal-decompositional-semantics-dataset-decomp/) ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper Francis Ferraro's papers of 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2016-visual-storytelling/) · [**2015** 1 paper Francis Ferraro's papers of 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/reisinger-2015-semantic-proto-roles/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Visual Storytelling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2016-visual-storytelling/)** *(2016 · 346 citations)* Image captioning research mostly produces literal descriptions of single photos. This paper asks whether systems can instead produce narratives for photo sequences, using social, evaluative and figurative language grounded in what the images show. The authors build SIND v.1, described as the first dataset for… 2. **[Semantic Proto-Roles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/reisinger-2015-semantic-proto-roles/)** *(2015 · 112 citations)* The paper asks whether Dowty's (1991) proto-role theory can be tested on real corpus data and turned into a practical annotation scheme. 3. **[The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp Toolkit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/white-2020-universal-decompositional-semantics-dataset-decomp/)** *(2020 · 18 citations)* Older semantic annotation schemes rely on large, mutually exclusive category inventories. They need expert annotators and fail on borderline cases, on items that fit several categories, and on phenomena the ontology left out. Decompositional semantics replaces categories with many simple questions that untrained… ## All works 9 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Visual Storytelling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2016-visual-storytelling/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, Francis Ferraro, Nasrin Mostafazadeh, et al.*2016 · 346 citations* 2. **[Semantic Proto-Roles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/reisinger-2015-semantic-proto-roles/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Drew Reisinger, Rachel Rudinger, Francis Ferraro, et al.*2015 · 112 citations* 3. **[DRP: Distilled Reasoning Pruning with Skill-aware Step Decomposition for Efficient Large Reasoning Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13975) arXiv:2505.13975 · no summary yet**Yuxuan Jiang, Dawei Li, Francis Ferraro*2025 · 21 citations* 4. **[The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp Toolkit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/white-2020-universal-decompositional-semantics-dataset-decomp/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Aaron Steven White, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Siddharth Vashishtha, et al.*2020 · 18 citations* 5. **[Beyond Math: Stories as a Testbed for Memorization-Constrained Reasoning in LLMs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.261/) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yuxuan Jiang, Francis Ferraro*2026 · 10 citations* 6. **[WikiVideo: Article Generation from Multiple Videos ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.3/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · no summary yet**Alexander Martin et al.*2026 · 5 citations* 7. **[If We May De-Presuppose: Robustly Verifying Claims through Presupposition-Free Question Decomposition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.starsem-1.20/) Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) · no summary yet**Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Francis Ferraro*2025 · 1 citation* 8. **[Findings of the MAGMaR 2026 Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.magmar-main.16/) Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2026) · no summary yet**Alexander Martin et al.*2026* 9. **[Experiments or Outcomes? Probing Scientific Feasibility in Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.50/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Seyedali Mohammadi, Manas Gaur, Francis Ferraro*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 of 22 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/) ×2 - [Kyle Rawlins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-rawlins/) ×2 - [Rachel Rudinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rachel-rudinger/) ×2 - [Aaron Steven White](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-steven-white/) - [Aishwarya Agrawal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-agrawal/) - [C. Lawrence Zitnick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/c-lawrence-zitnick/) - [Craig Harman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/craig-harman/) - [Devi Parikh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/devi-parikh/) - [Dhruv Batra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dhruv-batra/) - [Drew Reisinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/drew-reisinger/) - [Elias Stengel-Eskin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elias-stengel-eskin/) - [Ishan Misra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ishan-misra/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2020/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2016/) - [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) 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2015/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 - Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) - Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2026) - Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 226 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francis-ferraro/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026