--- title: "Yao Dou — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yao Dou, Georgia Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-dou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-dou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yao Dou # Yao Dou Yao Dou has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [David Heineman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-heineman/), [Maxwell Forbes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maxwell-forbes/), [Mounica Maddela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mounica-maddela/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5113067629) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2157-5482) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5113067629) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113067629) · [581 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113067629&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-dou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 149 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-dou/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4398](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/44/#star-4398) 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=Yao+Dou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yao+Dou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yao+Dou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yao+Dou) ## Affiliations [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2022–2025 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Northwestern Polytechnical University** Xi'an · China 2014–2017 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-polytechnical-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Chengdu Polytechnic** Chengdu · China 2020 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05bry4p87) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 · 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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper LENS: A Learnable Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maddela-2023-lens-learnable-evaluation-metric-text/) · [**2022** 1 paper Is GPT-3 Text Indistinguishable from Human Text? Scarecrow: A Framework for Scrutinizing Machine Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dou-2022-is-gpt-3-text-indistinguishable/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Is GPT-3 Text Indistinguishable from Human Text? Scarecrow: A Framework for Scrutinizing Machine Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dou-2022-is-gpt-3-text-indistinguishable/)** *(2022 · 152 citations)* Recent work suggested that ordinary crowd workers can no longer reliably tell GPT-3 output from human writing. 2. **[LENS: A Learnable Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maddela-2023-lens-learnable-evaluation-metric-text/)** *(2023 · 103 citations)* Automatic scoring of text simplification is unreliable. SARI rewards n-gram overlap with references, so it penalizes valid rewordings. BERTScore barely punishes outputs that copy the input or invent content while reusing its words. The authors build the first supervised metric for the task, LENS, by fine-tuning a… ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Is GPT-3 Text Indistinguishable from Human Text? Scarecrow: A Framework for Scrutinizing Machine Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dou-2022-is-gpt-3-text-indistinguishable/)**Yao Dou, Maxwell Forbes, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, et al.*[Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) · 152 citations* 2. **[LENS: A Learnable Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maddela-2023-lens-learnable-evaluation-metric-text/)**Mounica Maddela, Yao Dou, David Heineman, et al.*[Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) · 103 citations* 3. **[Improving Large-scale Paraphrase Acquisition and Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.631/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language…**Yao Dou, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu*2022 · 18 citations* 4. **[Automatic and Human-AI Interactive Text Generation (with a focus on Text Simplification and Revision)](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-tutorials.2/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational…**Yao Dou et al.*2024 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David Heineman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-heineman/) - [Maxwell Forbes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maxwell-forbes/) - [Mounica Maddela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mounica-maddela/) - [Noah A. Smith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-a-smith/) - [Rik Koncel-Kedziorski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rik-koncel-kedziorski/) - [Wei Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-xu/) - [Yejin Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/) ## 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/) ×3: [ACL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2023/), [ACL 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2022/) - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 149 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-dou/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026