--- title: "Sherry Yong Chen · Amazon — author profile and papers" description: "Sherry Yong Chen, Amazon: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2021), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yong-chen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yong-chen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sherry Yong Chen # Sherry Yong Chen Sherry Yong Chen has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2021, most of them on [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Bob van Tiel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bob-van-tiel/), [Jennifer Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennifer-hu/), [Roger Levy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roger-levy/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5018918179) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6471-506X) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5018918179) · [18 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018918179) · [59 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018918179&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yong-chen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 16 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yong-chen/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5608](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/57/#star-5608) 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=Sherry+Yong+Chen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sherry+Yong+Chen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sherry+Yong+Chen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sherry+Yong+Chen) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2017–2024 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) 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 8 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/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Neuroscience · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [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.[Coreference resolution · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper Every ambiguity isn't syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity\ensuremath*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-every-ambiguity-isn-t-syntactic/) · [**2020** 1 paper A closer look at the performance of neural language models on reflexive anaphor licensing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hu-2020-closer-look-performance-neural-language/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A closer look at the performance of neural language models on reflexive anaphor licensing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hu-2020-closer-look-performance-neural-language/)** *(2020 · 24 citations)* Earlier studies (Marvin and Linzen, 2018; Futrell et al., 2018) concluded that neural language models (NLMs) fail to learn English reflexive anaphor licensing (RAL), meaning the rules that decide which noun phrase can serve as the antecedent of words like himself or themselves. 2. **[Every ambiguity isn't syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity\ensuremath*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-every-ambiguity-isn-t-syntactic/)** *(2021 · 3 citations)* The paper asks how much of the ambiguity in sentences like "Every horse didn't jump over the fence" comes from syntax and how much from pragmatics. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bob van Tiel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bob-van-tiel/) - [Jennifer Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennifer-hu/) - [Roger Levy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roger-levy/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/) ×2: [SCiL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/2021/), [SCiL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/2020/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 16 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yong-chen/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026