--- title: "Jay Pujara — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Jay Pujara, University of Southern California: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-pujara/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-pujara/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jay Pujara # Jay Pujara Jay Pujara has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Pei Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pei-zhou/), [Xiang Ren](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-ren/), [Aditya Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditya-gupta/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5073443117) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6921-1744) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102770389) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5073443117) · [125 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073443117) · [1,851 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073443117&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-pujara/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 247 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-pujara/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7260](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/73/#star-7260) 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=Jay+Pujara) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jay+Pujara) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jay+Pujara) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jay+Pujara) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2017–2026 · 69 papersEmployment 2018–2024 · Research Assistant Professor, Computer ScienceEmployment since 2024 · Research Associate Professor, Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Cruz** Santa Cruz · United States 2015–2018 · 9 papersEmployment 2016–2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-cruz/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2010–2016 · 8 papersEducation 2010–2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2000–2023 · 1 paperEducation 2000–2004 · BS, Computer ScienceEducation 2004–2005 · MS, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) 🏛️**University of Maryland** College Park · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2010–2016Education 2010–2016 · PhD, Computer Science [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2014Employment 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**LinkedIn** Sunnyvale · United States 2012Employment 2012](https://ror.org/02fyxhe35) · [🏢**Yahoo** London · United Kingdom 2006–2010Employment 2006–2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo-united-kingdom/) · [🏢**Oracle** Austin · United States 2005–2006Employment 2005–2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/oracle/) 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 7 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/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-pujara/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-pujara/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2023-far-large-language-models-agents/)** *(2023 · 40 citations)* Theory-of-Mind (ToM) benchmarks for large language models, such as ToMi, usually ask directly about a character's beliefs. 2. **[Reflect, Not Reflex: Inference-Based Common Ground Improves Dialogue Response Quality](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2022-reflect-not-reflex-inference-based/)** *(2022 · 34 citations)* Dialogue response generation (RG) models tend to produce bland, generic replies. The authors argue this happens because the models answer "reflexively": they map dialogue history straight to a response and skip the step people take of building common ground (CG), meaning the shared knowledge and beliefs between… ## All works 7 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. **[Representing Numbers in NLP: a Survey and a Vision ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.53/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Avijit Thawani et al.*2021 · 139 citations* 2. **[Sparsity and Noise: Where Knowledge Graph Embeddings Fall Short ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D17-1184/) Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Jay Pujara, Eriq Augustine, Lise Getoor*2017 · 132 citations* 3. **[Good Examples Make A Faster Learner: Simple Demonstration-based Learning for Low-resource NER ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.192/) Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Dong-Ho Lee et al.*2022 · 106 citations* 4. **[Lawyers are Dishonest? Quantifying Representational Harms in Commonsense Knowledge Resources ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.410/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Ninareh Mehrabi et al.*2021 · 65 citations* 5. **[Self-Discover: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03620) arXiv:2402.03620 · no summary yet**Pei Zhou et al.*2024 · 61 citations* 6. [**How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind? arXiv:2310.03051**Pei Zhou, Aman Madaan, Srividya Pranavi Potharaju, et al.*2023 · 40 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2023-far-large-language-models-agents/) 7. **[Reflect, Not Reflex: Inference-Based Common Ground Improves Dialogue Response Quality](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2022-reflect-not-reflex-inference-based/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Pei Zhou, Hyundong Cho, Pegah Jandaghi, et al.*2022 · 34 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Pei Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pei-zhou/) ×2 - [Xiang Ren](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-ren/) ×2 - [Aditya Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditya-gupta/) - [Aida Nematzadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aida-nematzadeh/) - [Aman Madaan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aman-madaan/) - [Ari Holtzman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ari-holtzman/) - [Bill Yuchen Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-yuchen-lin/) - [Dong-Ho Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-ho-lee/) - [Manaal Faruqui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manaal-faruqui/) - [Shyam Upadhyay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shyam-upadhyay/) - [Swaroop Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/swaroop-mishra/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×3: [EMNLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2022/) - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 247 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [29 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-pujara/cited-by/). 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