🧑‍🔬 Andrew Piper

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓McGill UniversityMontreal · Canada2005–2026 · 103 papersEmployment since 2005 · Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Culturescurrent🎓ETH ZurichZurich · Switzerland2023–2026 · 4 paperscurrent🎓Cornell UniversityIthaca · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓University of Colorado BoulderBoulder · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States2023–2024 · 3 papers🎓Columbia UniversityNew York · United States1998–2005Education 1998–2005 · PhD, Department of Germanic Languages

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.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. The More Antecedents, the Merrier: Resolving Multi-Antecedent Anaphors (2016 · 19 citations)
   Most coreference systems assume that an anaphor points back to at most one antecedent. This rules out common cases such as "they" referring jointly to two characters introduced separately. Vala, Piper and Ruths study these multi-antecedent anaphors, which they call m-anaphors. They redefine NP anaphor resolution so…
2. Social Story Frames: Contextual Reasoning about Narrative Intent and Reception (2026 · 1 citation)
   Stories posted online provoke many kinds of reader reactions, such as guesses about why the author is sharing, emotional responses, and moral judgments of characters.
3. Fiction Flows: A Replication and Reinterpretation of Narrative Sequentiality (2026)
   This paper re-examines sequentiality, the language-model metric that Sap et al. (2022) proposed to quantify "narrative flow." Their original finding was that imagined stories score higher than recalled ones. That result came from a single proprietary model (GPT-3) and a formula that conditions on a plot summary. The…

All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Narrative Theory for Computational Narrative Understanding ↗Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetAndrew Piper, Richard Jean So, David Bamman2021 · 140 citations
2. Mr. Bennet, his coachman, and the Archbishop walk into a bar but only one of them gets recognized: On The Difficulty of Detecting Characters in Literary Texts ↗Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetHardik Vala et al.2015 · 91 citations
3. The More Antecedents, the Merrier: Resolving Multi-Antecedent AnaphorsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Hardik Vala, Andrew Piper, Derek Ruths2016 · 19 citations
4. Social Story Frames: Contextual Reasoning about Narrative Intent and ReceptionAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Joel Mire, Maria Antoniak, Steven R Wilson, et al.2026 · 1 citation
5. Fiction Flows: A Replication and Reinterpretation of Narrative SequentialityAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Andrew Piper, Sil Hamilton, Haiqi Zhou, et al.2026

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Maarten Sap
• Maria Antoniak

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) ×3: ACL 2026 ×2, ACL 2016
• Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ×2

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 106 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 19 citing papers with a page here →.

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