--- title: "Michael Sullivan — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Michael Sullivan, Saarland University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-sullivan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-sullivan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Michael Sullivan # Michael Sullivan Michael Sullivan has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Alexander Koller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-koller/), [Ji-Ung Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ji-ung-lee/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109222389) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109222389) · [102 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109222389) · [832 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109222389&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-sullivan/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 4 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10731](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/108/#star-10731) 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=Michael+Sullivan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Michael+Sullivan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Michael+Sullivan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Michael+Sullivan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Saarland University** Saarbrücken · Germany 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/) · [🎓**University at Buffalo, State University of New York** Buffalo · United States 2003–2024 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-at-buffalo-state-university-of-new-york/) · [🎓**University of Minnesota** Minneapolis · United States 2016–2018 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) · [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 1998–1999 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**University of Pittsburgh** Pittsburgh · United States 1997–1999 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pittsburgh/) · [🏢**Texas Instruments** Dallas · United States 1989–1990 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03vsmv677) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 13 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 5 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-sullivan/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-sullivan/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[It is not True that Transformers are Inductive Learners: Probing NLI Models with External Negation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sullivan-2024-it-is-not-true-that/)** *(2024 · 4 citations)* The paper asks whether transformer models fine-tuned for natural language inference actually reason logically or only seem to. 2. **[AuthorMix: Modular Authorship Style Transfer via Layer-wise Adapter Mixing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thillainathan-2026-authormix-modular-authorship-style-transfer/)** *(2026)* AuthorMix trains one LoRA adapter for each of about ten high-resource authors. For a new low-resource target, it mixes these adapters with scalar weights, learned per layer with reinforcement learning (GRPO), using the joint style and meaning score of a few target examples as reward. The base model and adapters stay… ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alexander Koller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-koller/) - [Ji-Ung Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ji-ung-lee/) ## 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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 30 October 2026