--- title: "Gregory Scontras — author profile and papers" description: "Gregory Scontras, University of California, Irvine: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2021), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-scontras/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-scontras/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gregory Scontras # Gregory Scontras Gregory Scontras has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2021, most of them on [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/); often with [Michael Franke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-franke/), [Richard Futrell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-futrell/). 2 of them are among the papers [Mova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/projects/mova/) reads. 2 papers in our library · 2020–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051929744) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051929744) · [90 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051929744) · [1,645 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051929744&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-scontras/#papers) · 🔗 7 citations in our library · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4632](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/47/#star-4632) 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=Gregory+Scontras) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gregory+Scontras) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gregory+Scontras) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gregory+Scontras) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Irvine** Irvine · United States 2017–2026 · 54 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-irvine/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2011–2015 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2014–2021 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Treebanks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/scontras-2021-practical-introduction-rational-speech-act/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/futrell-2020-what-determines-order-adjectives-english/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/futrell-2020-what-determines-order-adjectives-english/)** *(2020 · 14 citations)* The paper asks what fixes the order of prenominal adjectives in English, as in "big blue box". It implements four efficiency-based predictors: subjectivity, from crowd ratings of 398 adjectives; information locality; integration cost; and a new predictor, information gain. Each predictor scores an adjective pair, and… 2. **[A practical introduction to the Rational Speech Act modeling framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/scontras-2021-practical-introduction-rational-speech-act/)** *(2021 · 8 citations)* A tutorial and critical survey of Rational Speech Act (RSA) models. It derives the vanilla model (literal listener L0, speaker S1 with rationality α and utterance cost, pragmatic listener L1) and shows that S1's choice factorises into truth, informativity and cost, read as Gricean Quality, Quantity and Manner. It… ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Michael Franke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-franke/) - [Richard Futrell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-futrell/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 7 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read).