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# McGill University

University [Montreal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/montreal/), [Canada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/canada/)in the agglomeration of [Montreal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/montreal/)

- [Website](https://www.mcgill.ca)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/01pxwe438)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I5023651)

[**30** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/works/) · [**55** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/authors/) · [**6,634** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/works/) · [**3,439** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/works/)

## People (55)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at McGill University: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (16)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Ryan Lowe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-lowe/) — 2015–2019 on 18 papers · 7 papers here · 15,218 citations
- [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/) — current · 2020–2026 on 97 papers · 9 papers here · 7,887 citations
- [Devendra Sachan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/devendra-sachan/) — 2020–2024 on 9 papers · 2 papers here · 5,453 citations
- [Joelle Pineau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joelle-pineau/) — 2005–2025 on 197 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 8 papers here · 3,637 citations
- [William L. Hamilton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-l-hamilton/) — 2013–2022 on 61 papers · 4 papers here · 6,913 citations
- [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) — current · 2024–2026 on 55 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 10 papers here · 2,351 citations
- [Jackie Chi Kit Cheung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jackie-chi-kit-cheung/) — current · 2015–2026 on 88 papers · 10 papers here · 1,220 citations
- [Yue Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-dong/) — 2017–2023 on 22 papers · 4 papers here · 1,241 citations
- [Edoardo Maria Ponti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edoardo-maria-ponti/) — 2021–2023 on 13 papers · 4 papers here · 2,033 citations
- [Kushal Arora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kushal-arora/) — 2020–2023 on 8 papers · 2 papers here · 598 citations
- [Meng Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-cao/) — current · 2019–2025 on 8 papers · 2 papers here · 497 citations
- [Doina Precup](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doina-precup/) — current · 2001–2026 on 319 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 2 papers here · 303 citations
- [Rahul Aralikatte](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-aralikatte/) — 2022–2023 on 5 papers · 5 papers here · 405 citations
- [Jad Kabbara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jad-kabbara/) — 2014–2023 on 9 papers · 2 papers here · 315 citations
- [Ali Emami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-emami/) — 2015–2021 on 15 papers · 2 papers here · 73 citations
- [Ian Porada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ian-porada/) — 2019–2024 on 11 papers · 2 papers here · 17 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (39)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Dzmitry Bahdanau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dzmitry-bahdanau/) — 2018–2024 on 13 papers · 6 papers here · 56,164 citations
- [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/) — 2020–2021 on 5 papers · 7 papers here · 15,544 citations
- [Adina Williams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adina-williams/) — 2021–2022 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 10,394 citations
- [Dieuwke Hupkes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dieuwke-hupkes/) — 2021–2024 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 2,337 citations
- [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/) — 2020–2023 on 5 papers · 6 papers here · 3,050 citations
- [Zichao Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zichao-li/) — 2022–2023 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 763 citations
- [Malik H. Altakrori](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malik-h-altakrori/) — 2018–2022 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 18 citations
- [Yoshua Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshua-bengio/) — 1988–2023 on 29 papers · education (ORCID) · education (Wikidata) · 23 papers here · 99,938 citations
- [Jason Weston](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-weston/) — 2022–2023 on 4 papers · 23 papers here · 22,331 citations
- [Phil Blunsom](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phil-blunsom/) — 2022–2023 on 2 papers · 11 papers here · 12,162 citations
- [Alex Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-wang/) — 2021–2023 on 2 papers · 7 papers here · 11,482 citations
- [Antoine Bosselut](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antoine-bosselut/) — education (ORCID) · 6 papers here · 6,472 citations
- [Jian-Yun Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-yun-nie/) — current · 2007–2026 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 4,882 citations
- [Devamanyu Hazarika](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/devamanyu-hazarika/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 7 papers here · 4,729 citations
- [Di Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/di-jin/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 4,307 citations
- [Y-Lan Boureau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/y-lan-boureau/) — 2022–2023 on 3 papers · 3 papers here · 2,382 citations
- [Chen Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-ma/) — 2017–2021 on 15 papers · 2 papers here · 2,355 citations
- [Dan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-zhang/) — 2008–2010 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 2,060 citations
- [Chao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chao-zhang/) — 2021–2022 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 1,968 citations
- [Xiao Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiao-xia/) — 2013 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 1,924 citations
- [Kaheer Suleman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaheer-suleman/) — 2018–2021 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 1,694 citations
- [Roland Kuhn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roland-kuhn/) — 1988–2002 on 7 papers · 3 papers here · 1,578 citations
- [Yikang Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yikang-shen/) — 2018–2020 on 5 papers · 4 papers here · 1,242 citations
- [Satwik Bhattamishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/satwik-bhattamishra/) — 2022–2023 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 1,154 citations
- [Qingfeng Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingfeng-sun/) — 2001–2007 on 19 papers · 2 papers here · 1,109 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 55 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/authors/)

## Works in our library (30)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [StereoSet: Measuring stereotypical bias in pretrained language models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nadeem-2021-stereoset-measuring-stereotypical-bias-pretrained/) — Moin Nadeem, Anna Bethke, Siva Reddy · 2021 · 1,131 citations
- [The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dinan-2019-second-conversational-intelligence-challenge-convai2/) — Emily Dinan, Varvara Logacheva, Valentin Malykh, et al. · 2019 · 525 citations
- [Building End-To-End Dialogue Systems Using Generative Hierarchical Neural Network Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/serban-2015-building-end-end-dialogue-systems/) — Iulian V. Serban, Alessandro Sordoni, Yoshua Bengio, et al. · 2015 · 524 citations
- [A Hierarchical Latent Variable Encoder-Decoder Model for Generating Dialogues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/serban-2016-hierarchical-latent-variable-encoder-decoder/) — Iulian Vlad Serban, Alessandro Sordoni, Ryan Lowe, et al. · 2016 · 518 citations
- [Towards an Automatic Turing Test: Learning to Evaluate Dialogue Responses](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lowe-2017-towards-automatic-turing-test-learning/) — Ryan Lowe, Michael Noseworthy, Iulian V. Serban, et al. · 2017 · 486 citations
- [The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lowe-2015-ubuntu-dialogue-corpus-large-dataset/) — Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban, et al. · 2015 · 474 citations
- [TextWorld: A Learning Environment for Text-based Games](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cote-2018-textworld-learning-environment-text-based/) — Marc-Alexandre Cote, Akos Kadar, Xingdi Yuan, et al. · 2018 · 331 citations
- [An Actor-Critic Algorithm for Sequence Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bahdanau-2016-actor-critic-algorithm-sequence-prediction/) — Dzmitry Bahdanau, Philemon Brakel, Kelvin Xu, et al. · 2016 · 320 citations
- [Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis: Order Word Matters Pre-training for Little](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sinha-2021-masked-language-modeling-distributional-hypothesis/) — Koustuv Sinha, Robin Jia, Dieuwke Hupkes, et al. · 2021 · 292 citations
- [Humanity's Last Exam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2025-humanity-s-last-exam/) — Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han, et al. · 2025 · 235 citations
- [Factual Error Correction for Abstractive Summarization Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cao-2020-factual-error-correction-abstractive-summarization/) — Meng Cao, Yue Dong, Jiapeng Wu, et al. · 2020 · 217 citations
- [An Empirical Survey of the Effectiveness of Debiasing Techniques for Pre-trained Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meade-2022-empirical-survey-effectiveness-debiasing-techniques/) — Nicholas Meade, Elinor Poole-Dayan, Siva Reddy · 2022 · 211 citations
- [On the Origin of Hallucinations in Conversational Models: Is it the Datasets or the Models?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dziri-2022-origin-hallucinations-conversational-models-is/) — Nouha Dziri, Sivan Milton, Mo Yu, et al. · 2022 · 205 citations
- [Improving Passage Retrieval with Zero-Shot Question Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sachan-2022-improving-passage-retrieval-zero-shot/) — Devendra Sachan, Mike Lewis, Mandar Joshi, et al. · 2022 · 197 citations
- [Global MMLU: Understanding and Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Biases in Multilingual Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2025-global-mmlu-understanding-addressing-cultural/) — Shivalika Singh, Angelika Romanou, Clémentine Fourrier, et al. · 2025 · 179 citations
- [Towards Leaving No Indic Language Behind: Building Monolingual Corpora, Benchmark and Models for Indic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/doddapaneni-2023-leaving-no-indic-language-behind/) — Sumanth Doddapaneni, Rahul Aralikatte, Gowtham Ramesh, et al. · 2023 · 174 citations
- [Hallucinated but Factual! Inspecting the Factuality of Hallucinations in Abstractive Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cao-2022-hallucinated-but-factual-inspecting-factuality/) — Meng Cao, Yue Dong, Jackie Cheung · 2022 · 167 citations
- [Are LLMs Breaking MT Metrics? Results of the WMT24 Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2024-are-llms-breaking-mt-metrics/) — Markus Freitag, Nitika Mathur, Daniel Deutsch, et al. · 2024 · 106 citations
- [Resolving Event Coreference with Supervised Representation Learning and Clustering-Oriented Regularization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dean-2018-resolving-event-coreference-supervised-representation/) — Kian Kenyon-Dean, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Doina Precup · 2018 · 87 citations
- [UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/batsuren-2022-unimorph-4/) — Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Omer Goldman, Salam Khalifa · 2022 · 82 citations
- [The KnowRef Coreference Corpus: Removing Gender and Number Cues for Difficult Pronominal Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/emami-2019-knowref-coreference-corpus-removing-gender/) — Ali Emami, Paul Trichelair, Adam Trischler, et al. · 2019 · 73 citations
- [Verb Phrase Ellipsis Resolution Using Discriminative and Margin-Infused Algorithms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dean-2016-verb-phrase-ellipsis-resolution-discriminative/) — Kian Kenyon-Dean, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Doina Precup · 2016 · 24 citations
- [The More Antecedents, the Merrier: Resolving Multi-Antecedent Anaphors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vala-2016-more-antecedents-merrier-resolving-multi/) — Hardik Vala, Andrew Piper, Derek Ruths · 2016 · 19 citations
- [SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-ssa-comet-do-llms-outperform/) — Senyu Li, Jiayi Wang, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, et al. · 2025 · 13 citations
- [Multilingual Gradient Word-Order Typology from Universal Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baylor-2024-multilingual-gradient-word-order-typology/) — Emi Baylor, Esther Ploeger, Johannes Bjerva · 2024 · 12 citations

[See all 30 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/works/)

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Language models & pretraining (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Coreference resolution (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Summarization (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Implicature (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Universal Dependencies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

## Fields

[Natural language processing (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Linguistics & languages (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [Mathematics & statistics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute 12](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) [Université de Montréal 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) [Carnegie Mellon University 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [Google 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Microsoft 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) [Canadian Institute for Advanced Research 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/) [Meta 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) [University of Cambridge 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) [University College London 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) [Instituto Superior Técnico 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/instituto-superior-tecnico/) [Microsoft Research Montréal 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-montreal/)

## Parent and units

**Units** Collège MacDonald Group for Research in Decision Analysis Institut du cancer Rosalind & Morris Goodman International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research International Laboratory on Learning Systems

**Related** Douglas Mental Health University Institute Jewish General Hospital McGill University Health Centre Montreal Children's Hospital Montreal Clinical Research Institute Montreal General Hospital Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital Royal Victoria Hospital

From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked.

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at McGill University; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.