--- title: "Harm de Vries — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Harm de Vries, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2022), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harm-de-vries/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harm-de-vries/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Harm de Vries # Harm de Vries Harm de Vries has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2022, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/), [Ethan Perez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ethan-perez/), [Kaheer Suleman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaheer-suleman/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5103854790) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5103854790) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103854790) · [5,894 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103854790&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harm-de-vries/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 578 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harm-de-vries/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3371](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3371) 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=Harm+de+Vries) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Harm+de+Vries) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Harm+de+Vries) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Harm+de+Vries) ## Affiliations [🏢**ServiceNow** Santa Clara · United States 2021–2024 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/servicenow/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2015–2020 · 18 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2017–2018 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper Harm de Vries's papers of 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adlakha-2022-topiocqa-open-domain-conversational-question/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper Harm de Vries's papers of 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/perez-2017-film-visual-reasoning-general-conditioning/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[FiLM: Visual Reasoning with a General Conditioning Layer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/perez-2017-film-visual-reasoning-general-conditioning/)** *(2017 · 352 citations)* Standard visual question answering models often fail on CLEVR, a benchmark of questions that need multi-step reasoning about rendered scenes. 2. **[TopiOCQA: Open-domain Conversational Question Answering with Topic Switching](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adlakha-2022-topiocqa-open-domain-conversational-question/)** *(2022 · 143 citations)* Benchmarks for conversational question answering (CQA), such as CoQA and QuAC, give the system a fixed reference passage and keep each dialogue on a single subject. ## All works 5 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. [**FiLM: Visual Reasoning with a General Conditioning Layer arXiv:1709.07871**Ethan Perez, Florian Strub, Harm de Vries, et al.*2017 · 352 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/perez-2017-film-visual-reasoning-general-conditioning/) 2. **[TopiOCQA: Open-domain Conversational Question Answering with Topic Switching](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adlakha-2022-topiocqa-open-domain-conversational-question/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Vaibhav Adlakha, Shehzaad Dhuliawala, Kaheer Suleman, et al.*2022 · 143 citations* 3. **[Systematic Generalization: What Is Required and Can It Be Learned? ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12889) arXiv:1811.12889 · no summary yet**Dzmitry Bahdanau et al.*2018 · 67 citations* 4. **[SelfCodeAlign: Self-Alignment for Code Generation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24198) arXiv:2410.24198 · no summary yet**Yuxiang Wei et al.*2024 · 30 citations* 5. **[Astraios: Parameter-Efficient Instruction Tuning Code Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00788) arXiv:2401.00788 · no summary yet**Terry Yue Zhuo et al.*2024 · 20 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/) - [Ethan Perez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ethan-perez/) - [Kaheer Suleman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaheer-suleman/) - [Shehzaad Dhuliawala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shehzaad-dhuliawala/) - [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/) - [Vaibhav Adlakha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vaibhav-adlakha/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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) 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 578 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [49 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harm-de-vries/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026