🧑‍🔬 Ali Emami

Affiliations

• Brock University · St. Catharines, Canada — current · 2022–2025 on 27 papers
• Emory University · Atlanta, United States — 2025–2026 on 35 papers
• McGill University · Montreal, Canada — 2015–2021 on 15 papers
• University of Cambridge · Cambridge, United Kingdom — 2017–2018 on 2 papers
• Montreal Clinical Research Institute · Montreal, Canada — 2015–2016 on 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

Topics

Coreference resolution1

Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. The KnowRef Coreference Corpus: Removing Gender and Number Cues for Difficult Pronominal Anaphora Resolution (2019 · 73 citations)
   KnowRef is a set of 8,724 natural Winograd-like passages: two person noun phrases, then one connective (but, because, although, when, so …), then a pronoun that agrees with both («Paul helped Lionel hide when he was pursued by the authorities»).
2. ZIP: Quantifying Which Words Matter in Zero-Shot Instructional Prompts (2026)
   Zero-shot instructional prompts such as the Chain-of-Thought cue "Let's think step-by-step" reliably improve LLM accuracy, but it has been unclear which individual words produce the gain.

Also in our library

6 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

Co-authors here

7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Adam Trischler
• Arash Asgari
• Hannes Schulz
• Hassan Sajjad
• Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
• Kaheer Suleman
• Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari

Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 32 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); 6 citing papers with a page here →.

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