--- title: "Ryan Spring · Rice University — author profile and papers" description: "Ryan Spring, Rice University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-spring/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-spring/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ryan Spring # Ryan Spring Ryan Spring has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2025, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Bryan Catanzaro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bryan-catanzaro/), [Keisuke Sakaguchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keisuke-sakaguchi/), [Kentaro Inui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kentaro-inui/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5013062640) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9166-0079) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5013062640) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013062640) · [311 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013062640&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-spring/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 85 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-spring/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5595](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/56/#star-5595) 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=Ryan+Spring) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ryan+Spring) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ryan+Spring) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ryan+Spring) ## Affiliations [🎓**Rice University** Houston · United States 2016–2020 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rice-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 7 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/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-spring/year/2025/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-spring/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Training Question Answering Models From Synthetic Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/puri-2020-training-question-answering-models-synthetic/)** *(2020 · 208 citations)* Extractive QA systems depend on costly human-annotated data, and question-answer pairs produced automatically have traditionally been much weaker than those written by people. The authors tackle this gap with large pretrained transformers. Their pipeline has three stages: 2. **[Annotating Errors in English Learners' Written Language Production: Advancing Automated Written Feedback Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/coyne-2025-annotating-errors-english-learners-written/)** *(2025 · 3 citations)* Automated writing evaluation tools fix grammar well, but they mostly offer one-click direct edits. Language learners often gain more from short explanations or indirect hints, especially when an error breaks a general rule. The authors propose an annotation framework that records, for each learner error, an error… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bryan Catanzaro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bryan-catanzaro/) - [Keisuke Sakaguchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keisuke-sakaguchi/) - [Kentaro Inui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kentaro-inui/) - [Mohammad Shoeybi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-shoeybi/) - [Mostofa Patwary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mostofa-patwary/) - [Raul Puri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raul-puri/) ## 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/) - [Lecture notes in computer science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/): [Lecture notes in computer science 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 85 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-spring/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026