--- title: "Michael Tombolini — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Michael Tombolini, Montclair State University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tombolini/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tombolini/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Michael Tombolini # Michael Tombolini Michael Tombolini has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/); often with [Libby Barak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/libby-barak/), [Whitney Poh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/whitney-poh/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5120309299) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5120309299) · [2 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120309299) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120309299&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tombolini/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tombolini/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10961](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/110/#star-10961) 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+Tombolini) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Michael+Tombolini) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Michael+Tombolini) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Michael+Tombolini) ## Affiliations [🎓**Montclair State University** Montclair · United States 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/montclair-state-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 6 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/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Child-directed speech · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/child-directed-speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tombolini/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tombolini/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[What did you say? Generating Child-Directed Speech Questions to Train LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poh-2025-what-did-you-say-generating/)** *(2025 · 3 citations)* Language models trained on adult speech addressed to children (Child-Directed Speech, CDS) often perform better than models trained on the same amount of other types of text. 2. **[Making Synthetic Questions More Child-Directed: Prompting and Sampling Effects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poh-2026-making-synthetic-questions-more-child/)** *(2026)* Child-directed speech (CDS) can help small language models learn, but real CDS corpora are small, so researchers try to synthesize CDS-like input. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Libby Barak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/libby-barak/) ×2 - [Whitney Poh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/whitney-poh/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [BabyLM Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/babylm/): [BabyLM Workshop 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/babylm/2025/) - [Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cdl/): [CDL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cdl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tombolini/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026