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# Kyle Mahowald

3 paper cards in the Research library · 2023–2025

Kyle Mahowald wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with [Junyi Jessy Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyi-jessy-li/), [William Sheffield](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-sheffield/), Ashwini Deo.

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039468724) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-8716) · [**h-index 26**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039468724) · [3992 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039468724) · [190 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039468724) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14

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=Kyle+Mahowald) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kyle+Mahowald) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kyle+Mahowald) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kyle+Mahowald) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Kyle+Mahowald)

Topics: [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) 1

## Papers

1. **[Causal Interventions Reveal Shared Structure Across English Filler–Gap Constructions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/boguraev-2025-causal-interventions-reveal-shared-structure/)** *(2025)* The paper asks whether a language model uses one shared mechanism for several English filler–gap constructions (embedded wh-questions, matrix wh-questions, relative clauses, clefts, pseudo-clefts, topicalization).
2. **[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").
3. **[Elaborative Simplification as Implicit Questions Under Discussion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2023-elaborative-simplification-as-implicit-questions/)** *(2023)* When editors simplify news for children (Newsela), they often add sentences that explain rather than shorten.

## Co-authors (8)

- [Junyi Jessy Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyi-jessy-li/) ×2
- [William Sheffield](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-sheffield/) ×2
- Ashwini Deo
- [Christopher Potts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-potts/)
- Kanishka Misra
- Sasha Boguraev
- [Valentina Pyatkin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentina-pyatkin/)
- [Yating Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yating-wu/)

## More papers in the library (2)

Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each.

- [From sunblock to softblock: Analyzing the correlates of neology in published writing and on social media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ryskina-2026-sunblock-softblock-analyzing-correlates-neology/) — Maria Ryskina, Matthew R. Gormley, Kyle Mahowald, et al. · 2026
- [To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sprague-2024-cot-cot-chain-thought-helps/) — Zayne Sprague, Fangcong Yin, Juan Diego Rodriguez, et al. · 2024