--- title: "Jan Kocon — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Jan Kocon, Wrocław University of Science and Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-kocon/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-kocon/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jan Kocon # Jan Kocon Jan Kocon has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Przemyslaw Kazienko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/przemyslaw-kazienko/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5043845890) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7665-6896) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5043845890) · [139 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043845890) · [2,670 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043845890&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-kocon/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,601 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-kocon/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2719](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/28/#star-2719) 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=Jan+Kocon) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jan+Kocon) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jan+Kocon) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jan+Kocon) ## Affiliations [🎓**Wrocław University of Science and Technology** Wroclaw · Poland 2008–2026 · 89 papersEducation 2008–2010 · Bachelor of Science, Faculty of Computer Science and ManagementEducation 2010–2012 · Master of Science, Faculty of Computer Science and ManagementEducation 2012–2018 · Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Computational IntelligenceEmployment since 2011 · Research Assistant Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/wroclaw-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**University of Wrocław** Wroclaw · Poland 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wroclaw/) 🏛️**Dante Software** Wrocław · [Poland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/poland/) 2008–2012Employment 2008–2012 · Software Developer 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-kocon/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-kocon/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ChatGPT: Jack of all trades, master of none](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kocon-2023-chatgpt-jack-all-trades-master/)** *(2023 · 866 citations)* The paper asks whether ChatGPT, impressive in casual conversation, can actually replace specialised state-of-the-art (SOTA) models on analytical NLP tasks. 2. **[Breaking the Illusion of Reasoning in Polish LLMs: Quality over Quantity of Thought](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pihulski-2026-breaking-illusion-reasoning-polish-llms/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* It remains unclear why explicit reasoning helps LLMs. One explanation is the content of the reasoning traces. Another is simply the extra tokens of computation. The authors separate these two factors in a Polish setting. They machine-translated about 32K samples of Mixture-of-Thoughts into Polish with… ## All works 6 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. [**ChatGPT: Jack of all trades, master of none arXiv:2302.10724 · Information Fusion 101,861 (2023)**Jan Kocon, Igor Cichecki, Oliwier Kaszyca, et al.*2023 · 866 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kocon-2023-chatgpt-jack-all-trades-master/) 2. **[RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.936/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 · no summary yet**Bo Peng et al.*2023 · 632 citations* 3. **[Multi-Level Sentiment Analysis of PolEmo 2.0: Extended Corpus of Multi-Domain Consumer Reviews ↗](https://aclanthology.org/K19-1092/) Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) · no summary yet**Jan Kocoń, Piotr Miłkowski, Monika Zaśko-Zielińska*2019 · 82 citations* 4. **[Backtranslation and paraphrasing in the LLM era? Comparing data augmentation methods for emotion classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97626-1_1) arXiv:2507.14590 · Computational Science - ICCS 2025, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14,730, Springer, 2025, pp. 3-17 · no summary yet**Łukasz Radlinski, Mateusz Gusciora, Jan Kocon*2025 · 4 citations* 5. **[Breaking the Illusion of Reasoning in Polish LLMs: Quality over Quantity of Thought](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pihulski-2026-breaking-illusion-reasoning-polish-llms/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Dzmitry Pihulski, Mikołaj Langner, Jan Eliasz, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* 6. **[Last Translation Benchmark ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04173) arXiv:2609.04173 · no summary yet**Vilem Zouhar et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Przemyslaw Kazienko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/przemyslaw-kazienko/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 - Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,601 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [358 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-kocon/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026