--- title: "Shane Arora — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Shane Arora, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-arora/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-arora/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shane Arora # Shane Arora Shane Arora has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Eunsol Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eunsol-choi/), [Hung-Ting Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hung-ting-chen/), [Fangyuan Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyuan-xu/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102180767) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102180767) · [9 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102180767) · [92 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102180767&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-arora/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 797 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-arora/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7782](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7782) 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=Shane+Arora) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shane+Arora) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shane+Arora) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shane+Arora) ## Affiliations [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2024–2025 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/) 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 6 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-arora/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-arora/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CaLMQA: Exploring culturally specific long-form question answering across 23 languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arora-2025-calmqa-exploring-culturally-specific-long/)** *(2025 · 27 citations)* Most multilingual QA research relies on material translated from English and on short or multiple-choice answers. 2. **[Understanding Retrieval Augmentation for Long-Form Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-understanding-retrieval-augmentation-long-form/)** *(2023 · 24 citations)* Retrieval augmentation is widely used to give language models fresh evidence for long-form answers. However, most analyses of how models actually use retrieved text have focused on factoid QA with short, easily scored answers. This paper examines that question for long-form question answering (LFQA) through two… ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.841/) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Dirk Groeneveld et al.*2024 · 429 citations* 2. **[2 OLMo 2 Furious ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00656) arXiv:2501.00656 · no summary yet**Team OLMo et al.*2025 · 262 citations* 3. **[CaLMQA: Exploring culturally specific long-form question answering across 23 languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arora-2025-calmqa-exploring-culturally-specific-long/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Shane Arora, Marzena Karpinska, Hung-Ting Chen, et al.*2025 · 27 citations* 4. [**Understanding Retrieval Augmentation for Long-Form Question Answering arXiv:2310.12150**Hung-Ting Chen, Fangyuan Xu, Shane Arora, et al.*2023 · 24 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-understanding-retrieval-augmentation-long-form/) ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Eunsol Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eunsol-choi/) ×2 - [Hung-Ting Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hung-ting-chen/) ×2 - [Fangyuan Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyuan-xu/) - [Marzena Karpinska](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marzena-karpinska/) - [Mohit Iyyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohit-iyyer/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 797 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [183 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-arora/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026