--- title: "Mohammad Javad Hosseini — author profile and papers" description: "Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Purdue University West Lafayette: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2023), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-javad-hosseini/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-javad-hosseini/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mohammad Javad Hosseini # Mohammad Javad Hosseini Mohammad Javad Hosseini works on how computers understand and reason over natural language text. The papers here address two related questions. The first is how a system can follow the quantities described in a short story well enough to answer arithmetic questions about it. The second is why large language models accept inferences that a text does not actually support. The methods range from learned classifiers over linguistic features to controlled probing experiments on existing models. The most cited of these papers, [Learning to Solve Arithmetic Word Problems with Verb Categorization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hosseini-2014-learning-solve-arithmetic-word-problems/) (2014), introduced ARIS, a solver for addition and subtraction problems that needs no equation templates. It keeps track of how much of each entity sits in each container, such as an owner or a place, and reads every sentence as a change to that state. Its central learned step sorts each verb into one of seven categories, among them observation, transfer between two containers, construction and destruction. The newer work turns to [language models and pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/). [Sources of Hallucination by Large Language Models on Inference Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mckenna-2023-sources-hallucination-large-language-models/) (2023) treats mistaken entailment judgements as a kind of hallucination. It studies LLaMA, GPT-3.5 and PaLM by altering natural language inference datasets in targeted ways and observing how the models' answers move. The alterations include scrambling the premise predicate, substituting type labels for entities, or inserting other entities of the same type. Hosseini is currently affiliated with [Purdue University West Lafayette](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) and [Stanford University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/). Earlier bylines include [Sharif University of Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sharif-university-of-technology/), the [University of Washington](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/), the [University of Edinburgh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/), [The Alan Turing Institute](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/the-alan-turing-institute/) and [Google](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/). Co-authors on the papers here include [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/), [Oren Etzioni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oren-etzioni/), Nate Kushman, [Mark Steedman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-steedman/), Nick McKenna and Mark Johnson. Mohammad Javad Hosseini has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/), [Mark Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/), [Mark Steedman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-steedman/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101800671) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1377-9274) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101800671) · [40 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101800671) · [1,319 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101800671&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-javad-hosseini/#papers) · [🔗 300 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-javad-hosseini/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2427](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/25/#star-2427) 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=Mohammad+Javad+Hosseini) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mohammad+Javad+Hosseini) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mohammad+Javad+Hosseini) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mohammad+Javad+Hosseini) ## Affiliations [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 2021–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2018–2023 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**Sharif University of Technology** Tehran · Iran 2011–2015 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sharif-university-of-technology/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2020–2023 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🔬**The Alan Turing Institute** London · United Kingdom 2018–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/the-alan-turing-institute/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2014–2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**K. N. Toosi University of Technology** Tehran · Iran 2013–2014 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/0433abe34) 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. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mckenna-2023-sources-hallucination-large-language-models/) ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hosseini-2014-learning-solve-arithmetic-word-problems/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Learning to Solve Arithmetic Word Problems with Verb Categorization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hosseini-2014-learning-solve-arithmetic-word-problems/)** *(2014 · 513 citations)* The paper presents ARIS, an early system for addition and subtraction word problems that does not depend on equation templates. 2. **[Sources of Hallucination by Large Language Models on Inference Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mckenna-2023-sources-hallucination-large-language-models/)** *(2023 · 208 citations)* The paper asks why large language models wrongly affirm entailments in natural language inference (NLI). The authors treat these false positives as a form of hallucination. They ran controlled behavioural experiments on three model families: LLaMA, GPT-3.5 and PaLM. In these experiments, NLI datasets are altered in… ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/) - [Mark Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/) - [Mark Steedman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-steedman/) - [Nate Kushman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nate-kushman/) - [Nick McKenna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nick-mckenna/) - [Oren Etzioni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oren-etzioni/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 300 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [38 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-javad-hosseini/cited-by/).