--- title: "John Canny — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "John Canny, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 72 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-canny/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-canny/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / John Canny # John Canny John Canny has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Clement Crepy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clement-crepy/), [Hiroki Furuta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroki-furuta/), [Marwa Abdulhai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marwa-abdulhai/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5089723214) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7161-7927) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6225059) · [**h-index 72**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5089723214) · [431 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089723214) · [52,097 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089723214&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-canny/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 180 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-canny/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6309](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/64/#star-6309) 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=John+Canny) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=John+Canny) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=John+Canny) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=John+Canny) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2018–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 1987–2024 · 255 papersEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1983–2005 · 10 papersEducation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2020–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**Dhirubhai Ambani University** Gandhinagar · India 2007 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02d5b7g69) · [🎓**The University of Adelaide** Adelaide · Australia Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-adelaide/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 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 10 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/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-canny/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Moral Foundations of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdulhai-2024-moral-foundations-large-language-models/)** *(2024 · 94 citations)* This work examines whether widely used large language models have absorbed a particular moral and political leaning from their internet-scale training data. 2. **[A Human-Inspired Reading Agent with Gist Memory of Very Long Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2024-human-inspired-reading-agent-gist/)** *(2024 · 46 citations)* Large language models have a hard limit on input length, and their accuracy often drops on long inputs well before that limit. ## All works 8 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. **[Textual Explanations for Self-Driving Vehicles ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01216-8_35) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Jinkyu Kim et al.*2018 · 368 citations* 2. **[Moral Foundations of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdulhai-2024-moral-foundations-large-language-models/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Marwa Abdulhai, Gregory Serapio-García, Clement Crepy, et al.*2024 · 94 citations* 3. **[CLAIR: Evaluating Image Captions with Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.841/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**David M. Chan et al.*2023 · 55 citations* 4. **[Advisable Learning for Self-Driving Vehicles by Internalizing Observation-to-Action Rules ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.00968) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Jinkyu Kim et al.*2020 · 47 citations* 5. [**A Human-Inspired Reading Agent with Gist Memory of Very Long Contexts arXiv:2402.09727**Kuang-Huei Lee, Xinyun Chen, Hiroki Furuta, et al.*2024 · 46 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2024-human-inspired-reading-agent-gist/) 6. **[A Multi-Teraflop Constituency Parser using GPUs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D13-1195/) EMNLP 2013 · no summary yet**John Canny, David Hall, Dan Klein*2013 · 31 citations* 7. **[Toward explainable and advisable model for self‐driving cars ↗](https://doi.org/10.1002/ail2.56) Applied AI Letters · no summary yet**Jinkyu Kim et al.*2021 · 24 citations* 8. **[ALOHa: A New Measure for Hallucination in Captioning Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-short.30/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Suzanne Petryk et al.*2024 · 22 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Clement Crepy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clement-crepy/) - [Hiroki Furuta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroki-furuta/) - [Marwa Abdulhai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marwa-abdulhai/) - [Xinyun Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyun-chen/) ## 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/) ×2: [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - Applied AI Letters - EMNLP 2013 - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - Lecture notes in computer science - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 180 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [47 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-canny/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026