--- title: "Jean Maillard — author profile and papers" description: "Jean Maillard, Meta (United States): 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2020), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jean-maillard/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jean-maillard/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jean Maillard # Jean Maillard Jean Maillard works in natural language processing. The two papers here address quite different problems: recognising figurative language in short phrases, and evaluating systems that must draw on large stores of factual knowledge. Both rely on Wikipedia, either as training text for word and phrase embeddings or as a shared corpus for checking answers and their supporting evidence. The work falls under [Idioms & multiword expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) and [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/). The earlier paper, [Black Holes and White Rabbits](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shutova-2016-black-holes-white-rabbits-metaphor/) (2016), treats metaphor detection in verb–subject, verb–object and adjective–noun pairs as a multimodal problem. It pairs skip-gram text vectors with image features that a pretrained CNN extracts from search-engine pictures. A phrase is flagged as metaphorical when the vectors of its parts fail to match, so no classifier needs to be trained. The newest and most cited work, [KILT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petroni-2020-kilt-benchmark-knowledge-intensive-language/) (2020), moves toward knowledge-intensive tasks. It maps eleven existing datasets, spanning five task types such as open-domain question answering, fact checking and entity linking, onto one Wikipedia snapshot in a common format. Systems can then be scored on their outputs and also on whether they retrieve the right supporting passages. Maillard is currently affiliated with Meta in Menlo Park, after earlier papers from Meta's London office and a series of bylines at the University of Cambridge between 2014 and 2020. Co-authors on the site include [Ekaterina Shutova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekaterina-shutova/), [Douwe Kiela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douwe-kiela/), [Fabio Petroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabio-petroni/), [Patrick Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-lewis/) and [Tim Rocktäschel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-rocktaschel/). 2 papers on this site · 2016–2020 current affiliation [Meta (United States)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/), Menlo Park, United States Jean Maillard has 2 papers on this site, in 2016–2020, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Idioms & multiword expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/); often with [Aleksandra Piktus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksandra-piktus/), [Angela Fan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angela-fan/), [Douwe Kiela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douwe-kiela/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5104441926) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0025-1021) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5104441926) · [73 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5104441926) · [1 145 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5104441926&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jean-maillard/#papers) · [2 214 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jean-maillard/cited-by/) · 3 more works in our library 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=Jean+Maillard) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jean+Maillard) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jean+Maillard) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jean+Maillard) ## Affiliations - [Meta (United States)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · Menlo Park, United States —current · 2020–2026 on 6 papers - [University College London](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) · London, United Kingdom —2022–2025 on 3 papers - [University of London](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-london/) · London, United Kingdom —2025 on 2 papers - [University of the Basque Country](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/) · Leioa, Spain —2025 on 2 papers - [Johns Hopkins University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · Baltimore, United States —2023–2024 on 4 papers - [University of California, Berkeley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · Berkeley, United States —2023–2024 on 3 papers - [Meta (United Kingdom)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta-united-kingdom/) · London, United Kingdom —2020–2021 on 2 papers - [University of Cambridge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · Cambridge, United Kingdom —2014–2020 on 8 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Named entity recognition 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petroni-2020-kilt-benchmark-knowledge-intensive-language/) ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shutova-2016-black-holes-white-rabbits-metaphor/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[KILT: a Benchmark for Knowledge Intensive Language Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petroni-2020-kilt-benchmark-knowledge-intensive-language/)** *(2020 · 663 citations)* Benchmarks for knowledge-heavy NLP tasks, such as open-domain QA, fact verification and entity linking, have each used their own Wikipedia version or corpus, file format and evaluation scripts. 2. **[Black Holes and White Rabbits: Metaphor Identification with Visual Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shutova-2016-black-holes-white-rabbits-metaphor/)** *(2016 · 292 citations)* The paper addresses automatic metaphor identification: deciding whether short phrases (verb–subject, verb–direct object, adjective–noun) are used literally or metaphorically. ## Also in our library 3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aleksandra Piktus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksandra-piktus/) - [Angela Fan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angela-fan/) - [Douwe Kiela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douwe-kiela/) - [Ekaterina Shutova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekaterina-shutova/) - [Fabio Petroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabio-petroni/) - [James Thorne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-thorne/) - [Patrick Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-lewis/) - [Tim Rocktäschel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-rocktaschel/) - [Vladimir Karpukhin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vladimir-karpukhin/) - [Yacine Jernite](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yacine-jernite/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 214 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [195 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jean-maillard/cited-by/).