--- title: "John Murzaku — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "John Murzaku, Stony Brook University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2024), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-murzaku/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-murzaku/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / John Murzaku # John Murzaku John Murzaku has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Owen Rambow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/owen-rambow/), [Adil Soubki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adil-soubki/), [Magdalena Markowska](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/magdalena-markowska/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5092596353) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5092596353) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092596353) · [6 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092596353&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-murzaku/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 17 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-murzaku/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5876](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/59/#star-5876) 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+Murzaku) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=John+Murzaku) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=John+Murzaku) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=John+Murzaku) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stony Brook University** Stony Brook · United States 2022–2025 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stony-brook-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Dialogues about Roadrunner Cartoons](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paige-2024-training-llms-recognize-hedges-dialogues/) · [**2022** 1 paper Re-Examining FactBank: Predicting the Author's Presentation of Factuality](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/murzaku-2022-re-examining-factbank-predicting-author/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Re-Examining FactBank: Predicting the Author's Presentation of Factuality](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/murzaku-2022-re-examining-factbank-predicting-author/)** *(2022 · 7 citations)* The paper studies factuality prediction: deciding whether an author presents an event as certain, probable, possible or unspecified, and with which polarity. 2. **[Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Dialogues about Roadrunner Cartoons](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paige-2024-training-llms-recognize-hedges-dialogues/)** *(2024 · 4 citations)* The authors annotate hedge tokens in 63 spoken retellings of a Roadrunner cartoon (5,508 lines, about a quarter with a hedge; inter-coder kappa 0.985). ## All works 4 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. **[Towards Generative Event Factuality Prediction](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.44/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · original ↗ · no summary yet**John Murzaku et al.*2023 · 11 citations* 2. **[Re-Examining FactBank: Predicting the Author's Presentation of Factuality](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/murzaku-2022-re-examining-factbank-predicting-author/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**John Murzaku, Peter Zeng, Magdalena Markowska, et al.*2022 · 7 citations* 3. [**Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Dialogues about Roadrunner Cartoons**Amie Paige, Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, et al.*English · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paige-2024-training-llms-recognize-hedges-dialogues/) 4. **[Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Spontaneous Narratives](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03319) SIGDIAL 2024 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Amie J. Paige et al.*2024* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Owen Rambow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/owen-rambow/) ×2 - [Adil Soubki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adil-soubki/) - [Magdalena Markowska](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/magdalena-markowska/) - [Susan E. Brennan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-e-brennan/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2022/) - [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/): [SIGDIAL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2024/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 - SIGDIAL 2024 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 17 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-murzaku/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026