--- title: "Nicholas Lourie — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Nicholas Lourie, New York University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2020), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-lourie/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-lourie/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nicholas Lourie # Nicholas Lourie Nicholas Lourie has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2020, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Alon Talmor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-talmor/), [Jonathan Berant](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-berant/), [Jonathan Herzig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-herzig/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029809608) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029809608) · [29 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029809608) · [2,222 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029809608&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-lourie/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,201 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-lourie/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1450](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/15/#star-1450) 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=Nicholas+Lourie) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nicholas+Lourie) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nicholas+Lourie) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nicholas+Lourie) ## Affiliations [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2021–2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2018–2021 · 9 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. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Knowledge representation and reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/knowledge-representation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper Learning from Task Descriptions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weller-2020-learning-task-descriptions/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper CommonsenseQA: A Question Answering Challenge Targeting Commonsense Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talmor-2019-commonsenseqa-question-answering-challenge-targeting/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CommonsenseQA: A Question Answering Challenge Targeting Commonsense Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talmor-2019-commonsenseqa-question-answering-challenge-targeting/)** *(2019 · 1,639 citations)* The authors aim to determine whether systems can answer questions that require general knowledge about the world rather than finding the answer in a given text. 2. **[Learning from Task Descriptions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weller-2020-learning-task-descriptions/)** *(2020 · 111 citations)* Most NLP systems learn a new task only after seeing thousands of labeled examples. Humans can often do the same task just by reading instructions. The authors propose "learning from task descriptions" as a general framework for this. A model receives both an input and a natural-language description of the task, and… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alon Talmor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-talmor/) - [Jonathan Berant](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-berant/) - [Jonathan Herzig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-herzig/) - [Matt Gardner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matt-gardner/) - [Matthew Peters](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-peters/) - [Orion Weller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/orion-weller/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2020/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,201 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [147 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-lourie/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026