--- title: "Paul Smolensky · Microsoft — author profile and papers" description: "Paul Smolensky, Microsoft: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2023), h-index 47 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-smolensky/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-smolensky/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Paul Smolensky # Paul Smolensky Paul Smolensky has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Asli Celikyilmaz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asli-celikyilmaz/), [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/), [Jianfeng Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianfeng-gao/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5088217655) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2420-182X) · [**h-index 47**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5088217655) · [290 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088217655) · [18,278 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088217655&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-smolensky/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 65 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-smolensky/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4994](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4994) 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=Paul+Smolensky) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Paul+Smolensky) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Paul+Smolensky) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Paul+Smolensky) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2017–2026 · 29 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1997–2024 · 86 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 1987–2016 · 26 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🎓**University of Colorado System** Boulder · United States 1986–1990 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-system/) · [🔬**Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research** Lugano · Switzerland 2019 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/013355g38) · [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 1983 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) 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. ## 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/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper How Much Do Language Models Copy From Their Training Data? Evaluating Linguistic Novelty in Text Generation Using RAVEN](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccoy-2023-how-much-do-language-models/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper Predicting the Argumenthood of English Prepositional Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2018-predicting-argumenthood-english-prepositional-phrases/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[How Much Do Language Models Copy From Their Training Data? Evaluating Linguistic Novelty in Text Generation Using RAVEN](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccoy-2023-how-much-do-language-models/)** *(2023 · 116 citations)* When researchers judge a language model by the text it produces, they usually assume the output reflects learned linguistic knowledge. 2. **[Predicting the Argumenthood of English Prepositional Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kim-2018-predicting-argumenthood-english-prepositional-phrases/)** *(2018 · 4 citations)* The paper asks whether a model can tell if a prepositional phrase attached to a verb is an argument, meaning it is selected by the verb, or an adjunct, meaning an optional modifier. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Asli Celikyilmaz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asli-celikyilmaz/) - [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/) - [Jianfeng Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianfeng-gao/) - [Kyle Rawlins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-rawlins/) - [Najoung Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najoung-kim/) - [R. Thomas McCoy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/r-thomas-mccoy/) - [Tal Linzen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tal-linzen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/): [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/2018/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 65 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-smolensky/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026