--- title: "Terra Blevins — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Terra Blevins, Northeastern University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2024), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terra-blevins/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terra-blevins/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Terra Blevins # Terra Blevins Terra Blevins has 3 papers in our library, in 2018–2024, most of them on [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/); often with [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/), [Akari Asai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akari-asai/), [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/). 3 papers in our library · 2018–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5088311840) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5088311840) · [59 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088311840) · [576 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088311840&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terra-blevins/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 411 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terra-blevins/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3370](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3370) 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=Terra+Blevins) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Terra+Blevins) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Terra+Blevins) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Terra+Blevins) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2025–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) · [🎓**University of Vienna** Vienna · Austria 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-vienna/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2016–2025 · 25 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2023–2024 · 2 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. 2 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Word sense disambiguation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Word sense disambiguation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Zipf's law · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/zipfs-law/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper Terra Blevins's papers of 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asai-2024-buffet-benchmarking-large-language-models/) · [**2020** 1 paper Terra Blevins's papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blevins-2020-moving-down-long-tail-word/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper Terra Blevins's papers of 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blevins-2018-deep-rnns-encode-soft-hierarchical/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Moving Down the Long Tail of Word Sense Disambiguation with Gloss Informed Bi-encoders](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blevins-2020-moving-down-long-tail-word/)** *(2020 · 232 citations)* Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) systems tend to fail on rare senses. Sense frequencies follow a Zipfian distribution, so models learn to favor the most frequent sense (MFS) and do poorly on less frequent senses (LFS) or senses never seen in training. Blevins and Zettlemoyer address this with a bi-encoder model (BEM).… 2. **[Deep RNNs Encode Soft Hierarchical Syntax](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blevins-2018-deep-rnns-encode-soft-hierarchical/)** *(2018 · 178 citations)* This short paper asks whether deep recurrent networks trained on ordinary NLP objectives learn syntactic structure that they were never directly taught. 3. **[BUFFET: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Few-shot Cross-lingual Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asai-2024-buffet-benchmarking-large-language-models/)** *(2024 · 85 citations)* Research on few-shot learning with large language models has focused mostly on English. It has remained unclear how in-context learning (ICL) compares with fine-tuning when only a few target-language examples are available. The authors present BUFFET, a benchmark whose name refers to evaluating few-shot transfer… ## All works 8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Moving Down the Long Tail of Word Sense Disambiguation with Gloss Informed Bi-encoders](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blevins-2020-moving-down-long-tail-word/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Terra Blevins, Luke Zettlemoyer*2020 · 232 citations* 2. **[Demystifying Prompts in Language Models via Perplexity Estimation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04037) arXiv:2212.04037 · no summary yet**Hila Gonen et al.*2022 · 211 citations* 3. **[Deep RNNs Encode Soft Hierarchical Syntax](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blevins-2018-deep-rnns-encode-soft-hierarchical/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Terra Blevins, Omer Levy, Luke Zettlemoyer*2018 · 178 citations* 4. **[BUFFET: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Few-shot Cross-lingual Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asai-2024-buffet-benchmarking-large-language-models/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Akari Asai, Sneha Kudugunta, Xinyan Yu, et al.*2024 · 85 citations* 5. **[Breaking the Curse of Multilinguality with Cross-lingual Expert Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.604/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Terra Blevins et al.*2024 · 41 citations* 6. **[MYTE: Morphology-Driven Byte Encoding for Better and Fairer Multilingual Language Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.804/) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Tomasz Limisiewicz et al.*2024 · 25 citations* 7. **[Comparing Hallucination Detection Metrics for Multilingual Generation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10496) arXiv:2402.10496 · no summary yet**Haoqiang Kang, Terra Blevins, Luke Zettlemoyer*2024 · 18 citations* 8. **[Mining Paraphrasal Typed Templates from a Plain Text Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P16-1180/) Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Or Biran, Terra Blevins, Kathleen McKeown*2016 · 10 citations* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/) ×2 - [Akari Asai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akari-asai/) - [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/) - [Hila Gonen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hila-gonen/) - [Machel Reid](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/machel-reid/) - [Omer Levy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-levy/) - [Sebastian Ruder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-ruder/) - [Sneha Kudugunta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sneha-kudugunta/) - [Xinyan Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyan-yu/) - [Yulia Tsvetkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yulia-tsvetkov/) ## 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/) ×4: [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/), [ACL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2018/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2024/) - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 411 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [36 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terra-blevins/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026