--- title: "Valentina Pyatkin — papers and cards" description: "Valentina Pyatkin: 3 paper cards in the Research library (2020–2025), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentina-pyatkin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentina-pyatkin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Valentina Pyatkin # Valentina Pyatkin 3 paper cards in the Research library · 2020–2025 Valentina Pyatkin wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2020–2025, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Semantic role labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/); often with Ashwini Deo, [Ayal Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ayal-klein/), [Aynat Rubinstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aynat-rubinstein/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5034624275) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5034624275) · [359 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5034624275) · [85 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034624275) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 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=Valentina+Pyatkin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Valentina+Pyatkin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Valentina+Pyatkin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Valentina+Pyatkin) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Valentina+Pyatkin) Topics: [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) 1 · [Semantic role labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) 1 ## Papers 1. **[Is It JUST Semantics? A Case Study of Discourse Particle Understanding in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sheffield-2025-is-it-textit-just-semantics/)** *(2025)* The English discourse particle "just" has several senses: exclusive ("Betsy just eats chicken nuggets"), temporal ("just arrived"), unelaboratory ("Fido is just a dog"), unexplanatory ("the lights just turn on and off") and emphatic ("just delicious"). 2. **[The Possible, the Plausible, and the Desirable: Event-Based Modality Detection for Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pyatkin-2021-possible-plausible-desirable-event-based/)** *(2021)* The paper defines event-based modality detection: find every modal trigger in a sentence, of any part of speech (should, plan, prefers, probably, necessary, able), give it a sense, and link it to the head of the event it modifies. 3. **[QANom: Question-Answer driven SRL for Nominalizations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/klein-2020-qanom-question-answer-driven-srl/)** *(2020)* QANom extends QA-SRL from verbs to nouns derived from verbs: a noun like proof or increase is questioned with its verb's question templates («What has someone proved?», «Why did something increase?») and answered with spans of the sentence. ## Co-authors (16) - Ashwini Deo - [Ayal Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ayal-klein/) - [Aynat Rubinstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aynat-rubinstein/) - [Dan Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) - [Daniela Stepanov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniela-stepanov/) - Hangfeng He - [Ido Dagan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ido-dagan/) - [Jonathan Mamou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-mamou/) - [Junyi Jessy Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyi-jessy-li/) - Kanishka Misra - [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-mahowald/) - [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/) - Paul Portner - [Reut Tsarfaty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reut-tsarfaty/) - [Shoval Sadde](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shoval-sadde/) - [William Sheffield](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-sheffield/) ## More papers in the library (5) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lambert-2024-tulu-3-pushing-frontiers-open/) — Nathan Lambert, Jacob Morrison, Valentina Pyatkin, et al. · 2024 - [Camels in a Changing Climate: Enhancing LM Adaptation with Tulu 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ivison-2023-camels-changing-climate-enhancing-lm/) — Hamish Ivison, Yizhong Wang, Valentina Pyatkin, et al. · 2023 - [Design Choices for Crowdsourcing Implicit Discourse Relations: Revealing the Biases Introduced by Task Design](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pyatkin-2023-design-choices-crowdsourcing-implicit-discourse/) — Valentina Pyatkin, Frances Yung, Merel C. J. Scholman, et al. · 2023 - [Design Choices in Crowdsourcing Discourse Relation Annotations: The Effect of Worker Selection and Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/scholman-2022-design-choices-crowdsourcing-discourse-relation/) — Merel Scholman, Valentina Pyatkin, Frances Yung, et al. · 2022 - [QADiscourse - Discourse Relations as QA Pairs: Representation, Crowdsourcing and Baselines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pyatkin-2020-qadiscourse-discourse-relations-as-qa/) — Valentina Pyatkin, Ayal Klein, Reut Tsarfaty, et al. · 2020