--- title: "Justin Harris — author profile and papers" description: "Justin Harris, Microsoft Research Montréal (Canada): 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-harris/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-harris/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Justin Harris # Justin Harris Justin Harris works on building language resources for natural language processing. Their papers here centre on two kinds of corpus: question-answering data for machine comprehension and annotated conversations for goal-oriented dialogue. Both projects gather language from crowd workers or human participants. In each, the collection process is designed so that the resulting data poses problems that earlier benchmarks left out. The more widely cited of the two is [NewsQA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trischler-2017-newsqa-machine-comprehension-dataset/) (2017), a span-extraction dataset of 119,633 questions about 12,744 CNN articles. Question writers saw only headlines and highlights, so their questions tend to reword the source text and sometimes cannot be answered from it at all. Other workers then located answers in the full articles, and a validation step resolved disagreements. The second, [Frames](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asri-2017-frames-corpus-adding-memory-goal/) (2017), collects 1369 human-to-human travel-booking conversations recorded in a Wizard-of-Oz setting. In these conversations, users compare packages and return to earlier options. The corpus is annotated with dialogue acts, slots and values to support systems that must keep track of several sets of preferences at once. Both papers date from 2017 and point in the same direction. They move past simple, linear task formats toward data that requires memory, paraphrase and the handling of unanswerable questions. Harris is affiliated with [Microsoft Research Montréal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-montreal/). [Kaheer Suleman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaheer-suleman/) is a co-author on both papers. Other collaborators include [Adam Trischler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-trischler/), [Layla El Asri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/layla-el-asri/) and [Xingdi Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingdi-yuan/). The work connects to the topic of [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/). 2 papers on this site · 2017 current affiliation [Microsoft Research Montréal (Canada)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-montreal/), Montreal Justin Harris has 2 papers on this site, in 2017, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Kaheer Suleman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaheer-suleman/), [Adam Trischler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-trischler/), [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5061869342) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5061869342) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5061869342) · [1 012 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5061869342&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-harris/#papers) · [510 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-harris/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #1563](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/16/#star-1563) 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=Justin+Harris) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Justin+Harris) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Justin+Harris) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Justin+Harris) ## Affiliations - [Microsoft Research Montréal (Canada)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-montreal/) · Montreal —current · 2019 on 1 paper - [University of Maryland, Baltimore County](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/) · Baltimore, United States —2003–2004 on 2 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 [Dialogue systems 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2017** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-harris/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[NewsQA: A Machine Comprehension Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trischler-2017-newsqa-machine-comprehension-dataset/)** *(2017 · 1 088 citations)* Before NewsQA, large machine comprehension (MC) datasets were either too small for deep learning or generated synthetically. 2. **[Frames: a corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asri-2017-frames-corpus-adding-memory-goal/)** *(2017 · 326 citations)* Most goal-oriented dialogue datasets reflect linear slot-filling: the system gathers constraints, queries a database, and returns results. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kaheer Suleman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaheer-suleman/) ×2 - [Adam Trischler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-trischler/) - [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/) - [Emery Fine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emery-fine/) - [Hannes Schulz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannes-schulz/) - [Layla El Asri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/layla-el-asri/) - [Tong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-wang/) - [Xingdi Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingdi-yuan/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 510 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [54 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-harris/cited-by/).