--- title: "Thomas Butler — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Thomas Butler: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-butler/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-butler/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Thomas Butler # Thomas Butler Thomas Butler has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Dezhi Hong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dezhi-hong/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5124830080) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5124830080) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5124830080) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5124830080&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-butler/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12250](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/123/#star-12250) 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=Thomas+Butler) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Thomas+Butler) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Thomas+Butler) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Thomas+Butler) ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-butler/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DialectLLM: A Dialect-Aware Dialogue Generation Framework Beyond Standard American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oh-2026-dialectllm-dialect-aware-dialog-ue/)** *(2026)* Most English speakers worldwide do not use Standard American English (SAE). LLMs often misidentify other dialects and produce caricatured text for their speakers. Existing generators lean on eWAVE, which covers only grammar, and apply its features wholesale. The authors present DialectLLM, a pipeline that builds… 2. **[English is Not All You Need: Systematically Exploring the Role of Multilinguality in LLM Post-Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dhaliwal-2026-english-all-need-systematically-exploring/)** *(2026)* Most LLM post-training is still done almost entirely in English. This paper asks whether that choice costs performance, in English and in other languages, and how the answer changes with model size and task type. The authors ran 220 supervised fine-tuning runs on Qwen-3 (0.6B, 1.7B, 8B) and Gemma-3 (1B, 4B). They… ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dezhi Hong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dezhi-hong/) ×2 Updated 30 October 2026