--- title: "Kanishka Misra — author profile and papers" description: "Kanishka Misra, The University of Texas at Austin: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishka-misra/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishka-misra/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kanishka Misra # Kanishka Misra Kanishka Misra has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/); often with [David Dohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dohan/), [Denny Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-zhou/), [Ed Chi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ed-chi/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5064041005) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7261-5691) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5064041005) · [40 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064041005) · [71 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064041005&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishka-misra/#papers) · [🔗 534 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishka-misra/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2892](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/29/#star-2892) 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=Kanishka+Misra) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kanishka+Misra) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kanishka+Misra) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kanishka+Misra) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2023–2026 · 18 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 2019–2023 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/scivetti-2026-language-models-learn-constructional-semantics/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sheffield-2025-is-it-textit-just-semantics/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2023-large-language-models-easily-distracted/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2023-large-language-models-easily-distracted/)** *(2023 · 525 citations)* Most reasoning benchmarks for large language models include only the facts needed to reach the answer. Real tasks are different, because the useful details are mixed with noise. This paper measures how easily prompted LLMs are thrown off by that kind of noise. The authors built GSM-IC from 100 GSM8K problems that at… 2. **[Language Models Learn Constructional Semantics, Not To Mention Syntax: Investigating LM Understanding of Paired-Focus Constructions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/scivetti-2026-language-models-learn-constructional-semantics/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether open-source language models, and not only the largest prompted LLMs, understand both the form and the meaning of rare English PAIRED-FOCUS constructions: LET-ALONE, MUCH-LESS, NOT-TO-MENTION and NEVER-MIND. 3. **[Is It JUST Semantics? A Case Study of Discourse Particle Understanding in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sheffield-2025-is-it-textit-just-semantics/)** *(2025)* The English discourse particle "just" has several senses: exclusive ("Betsy just eats chicken nuggets"), temporal ("just arrived"), unelaboratory ("Fido is just a dog"), unexplanatory ("the lights just turn on and off") and emphatic ("just delicious"). ## Also in our library 6 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David Dohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dohan/) - [Denny Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-zhou/) - [Ed Chi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ed-chi/) - [Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ethan-gotlieb-wilcox/) - [Freda Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/freda-shi/) - [Junyi Jessy Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyi-jessy-li/) - [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-mahowald/) - [Leonie Weissweiler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonie-weissweiler/) - [Nathan Scales](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-scales/) - [Nathan Schneider](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-schneider/) - [Nathanael Schärli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathanael-scharli/) - [Valentina Pyatkin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentina-pyatkin/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 534 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/kanishka-misra/cited-by/).