--- title: "Larry Birnbaum — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2024), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/larry-birnbaum/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/larry-birnbaum/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Larry Birnbaum # Larry Birnbaum Larry Birnbaum has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2024, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Doug Downey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doug-downey/), [Ji-Ping Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ji-ping-wang/), [Mike D'Arcy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mike-d-arcy/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109397252) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9315-2796) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109397252) · [65 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109397252) · [732 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109397252&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/larry-birnbaum/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 79 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/larry-birnbaum/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8231](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/83/#star-8231) 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=Larry+Birnbaum) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Larry+Birnbaum) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Larry+Birnbaum) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Larry+Birnbaum) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 1995–2026 · 57 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [History and Philosophy of Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/history-and-philosophy-of-science/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/larry-birnbaum/year/2024/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/larry-birnbaum/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MARG: Multi-Agent Review Generation for Scientific Papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arcy-2024-marg-multi-agent-review/)** *(2024 · 76 citations)* Large language models struggle to critique full scientific papers: these texts are long and technical, and they often exceed or underuse a model's context window. 2. **[Extracting Commonsense Properties from Embeddings with Limited Human Guidance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2018-extracting-commonsense-properties-embeddings-limited/)** *(2018 · 31 citations)* The paper addresses how to learn commonsense comparisons between objects along one property, such as whether one thing is heavier or rounder than another. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Doug Downey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doug-downey/) ×2 - [Ji-Ping Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ji-ping-wang/) - [Mike D'Arcy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mike-d-arcy/) - [Tom Hope](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-hope/) - [Yiben Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiben-yang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 79 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [44 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/larry-birnbaum/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026