--- title: "Nathaniel Weir — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Nathaniel Weir, Amazon: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathaniel-weir/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathaniel-weir/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nathaniel Weir # Nathaniel Weir Nathaniel Weir has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/), [Orion Weller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/orion-weller/), [Bhavana Dalvi Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bhavana-dalvi-mishra/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5062395513) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5062395513) · [41 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062395513) · [195 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062395513&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathaniel-weir/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 48 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathaniel-weir/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7728](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7728) 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=Nathaniel+Weir) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nathaniel+Weir) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nathaniel+Weir) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nathaniel+Weir) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2020–2025 · 21 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Arizona** Tucson · United States 2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-arizona/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 2018–2019 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathaniel-weir/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[“According to . . . “: Prompting Language Models Improves Quoting from Pre-Training Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weller-2024-according-prompting-language-models-improves/)** *(2024 · 46 citations)* Large language models often invent facts even though they were trained on reliable text. The authors test whether a simple cue in the prompt, such as "According to Wikipedia", can make a model reproduce more material it memorized during pre-training. To measure this, they introduce QUIP-Score (Quoted Information… 2. **[Enhancing Systematic Decompositional Natural Language Inference Using Informal Logic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weir-2024-enhancing-systematic-decompositional-natural-language/)** *(2024 · 7 citations)* Entailment-tree reasoners answer a question by recursively splitting a hypothesis into premises that should jointly support it. ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/) ×2 - [Orion Weller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/orion-weller/) ×2 - [Bhavana Dalvi Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bhavana-dalvi-mishra/) - [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/) - [Dawn Lawrie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawn-lawrie/) - [Dongwei Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongwei-jiang/) - [Kate Sanders](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kate-sanders/) - [Marc Marone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-marone/) - [Oyvind Tafjord](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oyvind-tafjord/) - [Peter Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-clark/) - [Peter Jansen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-jansen/) - [Zhengping Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengping-jiang/) ## 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/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 48 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathaniel-weir/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026