--- title: "Melissa Roemmele — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Melissa Roemmele: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2012–2023), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melissa-roemmele/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melissa-roemmele/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Melissa Roemmele # Melissa Roemmele Melissa Roemmele has 2 papers in our library, in 2012–2023, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Andrew Gordon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-gordon/), [Katrina Olsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katrina-olsen/), [Steve DeNeefe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-deneefe/). 2 papers in our library · 2012–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5013783416) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1938-3125) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131119837) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5013783416) · [49 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013783416) · [869 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013783416&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melissa-roemmele/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 151 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melissa-roemmele/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5524](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/56/#star-5524) 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=Melissa+Roemmele) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Melissa+Roemmele) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Melissa+Roemmele) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Melissa+Roemmele) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2013–2018 · 15 papersEducation · PhD, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🔬**USC Institute for Creative Technologies** Playa Vista · United States 2017–2018 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/usc-institute-for-creative-technologies/) 🏛️**Midjourney** San Francisco · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2024–2025Employment 2024–2025 · Research Scientist 🏛️**Language Weaver (RWS Group)** Los Angeles · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2018–2024Employment 2018–2024 · Research Scientist From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melissa-roemmele/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melissa-roemmele/year/2012/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SemEval-2012 Task 7: Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gordon-2012-semeval-2012-task-7-choice/)** *(2012 · 218 citations)* This paper reports on SemEval-2012 Task 7, a shared evaluation of open-domain commonsense causal reasoning built on the Choice of Plausible Alternatives (COPA) benchmark. 2. **[AbLit: A Resource for Analyzing and Generating Abridged Versions of English Literature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roemmele-2023-ablit-resource-analyzing-generating-abridged/)** *(2023 · 2 citations)* The paper treats abridgement as an NLP task for the first time. Abridgement means shortening a book while keeping its wording and style. It differs from abstractive summarization, which rewrites heavily, and from simplification, which usually works on single sentences. The authors build AbLit from ten public-domain… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[SemEval-2012 Task 7: Choice of Plausible Alternatives: An Evaluation of Commonsense Causal Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gordon-2012-semeval-2012-task-7-choice/) [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/)**Andrew Gordon, Zornitsa Kozareva, Melissa Roemmele*2012 · 218 citations* 2. **[Writing Stories with Help from Recurrent Neural Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v30i1.9810) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Melissa Roemmele*2016 · 74 citations* 3. **[AbLit: A Resource for Analyzing and Generating Abridged Versions of English Literature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/roemmele-2023-ablit-resource-analyzing-generating-abridged/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Melissa Roemmele, Kyle Shaffer, Katrina Olsen, et al.*2023 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andrew Gordon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-gordon/) - [Katrina Olsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katrina-olsen/) - [Steve DeNeefe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-deneefe/) - [Zornitsa Kozareva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zornitsa-kozareva/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2023/) - [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/): [*SEM 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2012/) - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 151 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [27 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melissa-roemmele/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026