--- title: "Joshua Maynez — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Joshua Maynez, Google: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2023), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-maynez/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-maynez/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Joshua Maynez # Joshua Maynez Joshua Maynez has 4 papers in our library, in 2020–2023, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Shashi Narayan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashi-narayan/), [Dipanjan Das](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dipanjan-das/), [Fantine Huot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fantine-huot/). 4 papers in our library · 2020–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5021334672) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4948-2875) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5021334672) · [56 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021334672) · [4,608 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021334672&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-maynez/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 6,699 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-maynez/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1522](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/16/#star-1522) 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=Joshua+Maynez) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Joshua+Maynez) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Joshua+Maynez) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Joshua+Maynez) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2018–2026 · 23 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2021–2024 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Summarization · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Question answering · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Text summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/text-summarization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-maynez/year/2023/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-maynez/year/2021/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-maynez/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maynez-2020-faithfulness-factuality-abstractive-summarization/)** *(2020 · 1,857 citations)* The paper investigates the extent to which abstractive neural summarization systems hallucinate content that is not present in the input document or that contradicts the facts. 2. **[Planning with Learned Entity Prompts for Abstractive Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/narayan-2021-planning-learned-entity-prompts-abstractive/)** *(2021 · 180 citations)* Neural abstractive summarizers usually generate text end to end, with no explicit intermediate plan. This makes them prone to hallucinations, meaning content that the source does not support. The authors bring back the classic idea of planning before writing. A Transformer encoder-decoder first outputs an entity… 3. **[Conditional Generation with a Question-Answering Blueprint](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/narayan-2023-conditional-generation-question-answering-blueprint/)** *(2023 · 70 citations)* Neural seq-to-seq generators frequently hallucinate, omit important details, and act as black boxes that are hard to inspect or steer. 4. **[QAmeleon: Multilingual QA with Only 5 Examples](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agrawal-2023-qameleon-multilingual-qa-only-5/)** *(2023 · 45 citations)* Extractive question answering datasets are large mainly for English, so QA systems in other languages usually depend on zero-shot transfer or machine-translated training data. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[On Faithfulness and Factuality in Abstractive Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maynez-2020-faithfulness-factuality-abstractive-summarization/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Joshua Maynez, Shashi Narayan, Bernd Bohnet, et al.*2020 · 1,857 citations* 2. **[Planning with Learned Entity Prompts for Abstractive Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/narayan-2021-planning-learned-entity-prompts-abstractive/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Shashi Narayan, Yao Zhao, Joshua Maynez, et al.*2021 · 180 citations* 3. **[Morphosyntactic Tagging with a Meta-BiLSTM Model over Context Sensitive Token Encodings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1246/) Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Bernd Bohnet et al.*2018 · 118 citations* 4. **[Conditional Generation with a Question-Answering Blueprint](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/narayan-2023-conditional-generation-question-answering-blueprint/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Shashi Narayan, Joshua Maynez, Reinald Kim Amplayo, et al.*2023 · 70 citations* 5. **[QAmeleon: Multilingual QA with Only 5 Examples](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agrawal-2023-qameleon-multilingual-qa-only-5/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Priyanka Agrawal, Chris Alberti, Fantine Huot, et al.*2023 · 45 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 16 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Shashi Narayan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashi-narayan/) ×3 - [Dipanjan Das](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dipanjan-das/) ×2 - [Fantine Huot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fantine-huot/) ×2 - [Kuzman Ganchev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuzman-ganchev/) ×2 - [Mirella Lapata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mirella-lapata/) ×2 - [Ryan McDonald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-mcdonald/) ×2 - [Anders Sandholm](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anders-sandholm/) - [Annie Louis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annie-louis/) - [Bernd Bohnet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernd-bohnet/) - [Chris Alberti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-alberti/) - [Ji Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ji-ma/) - [Priyanka Agrawal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/priyanka-agrawal/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/) ×3: [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2023/) ×2, [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 6,699 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1,482 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-maynez/cited-by/). 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