🧑‍🔬 Ben Zhou

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Arizona State UniversityTempe · United States2024–2026 · 7 paperscurrent🔬Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical IndustryShanghai · China2025–2026 · 2 paperscurrent🎓University of WashingtonSeattle · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia · United States2019–2024 · 12 papers🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · United States2018–2019 · 4 papers🔬Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceSeattle · United States2020–2021 · 2 papers🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States2020 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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. Evaluating Models' Local Decision Boundaries via Contrast Sets (2020 · 531 citations)
   Standard test sets come from the same distribution as the training data, so a dataset with systematic gaps or annotation artifacts lets models score well with shallow heuristics.
2. CogCompTime: A Tool for Understanding Time in Natural Language (2018 · 93 citations)
   CogCompTime is a publicly available system for extracting temporal information from raw English text. It covers two tasks. The first is finding explicit time expressions (Timexes) and converting them to a standard format. The second is recovering the implicit ordering of events through temporal relations (TempRels).
3. RECAP: Transparent Inference-Time Emotion Alignment for Medical Dialogue Systems (2026 · 1 citation)
   Medical chatbots built on large language models often give answers that are clinically correct but emotionally flat.
4. Reliable Use of Lemmas via Eligibility Reasoning and Section-Aware Reinforcement Learning (2026)
   Large language models can score well on math benchmarks yet still invoke lemmas whose hypotheses do not hold in the given context.

All works

18 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Evaluating Models' Local Decision Boundaries via Contrast SetsMatt Gardner, Yoav Artzi, Victoria Basmov, et al.Mova's core list · 531 citations
2. “Going on a vacation” takes longer than “Going for a walk”: A Study of Temporal Commonsense Understanding ↗Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yetBen Zhou et al.2019 · 283 citations
3. Temporal Common Sense Acquisition with Minimal Supervision ↗Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetBen Zhou et al.2020 · 140 citations
4. Temporal Reasoning on Implicit Events from Distant Supervision ↗Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yetBen Zhou et al.2021 · 111 citations
5. CogCompTime: A Tool for Understanding Time in Natural LanguageConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Qiang Ning, Ben Zhou, Zhili Feng, et al.2018 · 93 citations
6. RESIN: A Dockerized Schema-Guided Cross-document Cross-lingual Cross-media Information Extraction and Event Tracking System ↗Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations · no summary yetHaoyang Wen et al.2021 · 83 citations
7. Zero-Shot Open Entity Typing as Type-Compatible Grounding ↗Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetBen Zhou et al.2018 · 76 citations
8. CogCompNLP: Your Swiss Army Knife for NLP ↗Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) · no summary yetDaniel Khashabi et al.2018 · 50 citations
9. Cross-lingual Entity Alignment with Incidental Supervision ↗Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume · no summary yetMuhao Chen et al.2021 · 49 citations
10. Deceptive Semantic Shortcuts on Reasoning Chains: How Far Can Models Go without Hallucination? ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetBangzheng Li et al.2024 · 22 citations
11. BIRD: A Trustworthy Bayesian Inference Framework for Large Language Models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetFeng, Yu et al.2024 · 13 citations
12. Indirectly Supervised Natural Language Processing ↗Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Tutorial Abstracts) · no summary yetWenpeng Yin et al.2023 · 7 citations
13. FamiCom: Further Demystifying Prompts for Language Models with Task-Agnostic Performance Estimation ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetBangzheng Li et al.2024 · 6 citations
14. CogCompTime: A Tool for Understanding Time in Natural Language Text ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetQiang Ning et al.2019 · 2 citations
15. RECAP: Transparent Inference-Time Emotion Alignment for Medical Dialogue SystemsWorkshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing (Clinical NLP) @ LRECAdarsh Srinivasan, Jacob Dineen, Muhammad Uzair Sarfraz, et al.2026 · 1 citation
16. Self-supervised Analogical Learning using Language Models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetBen Zhou et al.2025 · 1 citation
17. Building Interpretable and Reliable Open Information Retriever for New Domains Overnight ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetXiaodong Yu, Ben Zhou, Dan Roth2023 · 1 citation
18. Reliable Use of Lemmas via Eligibility Reasoning and Section-Aware Reinforcement LearningAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Zhikun Xu, Xiaodong Yu, Ben Zhou, et al.2026

🤝 Co-authors here

12 of 34 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Qiang Ning ×2
• Ally Zhang
• Ben Bogin
• Dan Roth
• Daniel Khashabi
• Dheeru Dua
• Eric Wallace
• Gabriel Ilharco
• Hannaneh Hajishirzi
• Hao Chen
• Haoruo Peng
• Jialian Wu

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
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) ×2: EMNLP 2018
• Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) ×2
• Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing (Clinical NLP) @ LREC: Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing (Clinical NLP) @ LREC 2026
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020
• Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
• Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
• Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations
• Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 720 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 92 citing papers with a page here →.

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