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# William Sheffield

2 paper cards in the Research library · 2023–2025

William Sheffield wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/); often with [Junyi Jessy Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyi-jessy-li/), [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-mahowald/), Ashwini Deo.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=William+Sheffield) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=William+Sheffield) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=William+Sheffield) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=William+Sheffield) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=William+Sheffield)

Topics: [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) 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. **[Elaborative Simplification as Implicit Questions Under Discussion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2023-elaborative-simplification-as-implicit-questions/)** *(2023)* When editors simplify news for children (Newsela), they often add sentences that explain rather than shorten.

## Co-authors (6)

- [Junyi Jessy Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyi-jessy-li/) ×2
- [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-mahowald/) ×2
- Ashwini Deo
- Kanishka Misra
- [Valentina Pyatkin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentina-pyatkin/)
- [Yating Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yating-wu/)