Christopher E. Potts — all works
- Inducing Character-level Structure in Subword-based Language Models with Type-level Interchange Intervention Training ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · no summary yetJing Huang et al.2023 · 21 citations
- Pragmatic Issue-Sensitive Image CaptioningFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsAllen Nie, Reuben Cohn-Gordon, Christopher Potts2020 · 21 citations
- Retrofitting Distributional Embeddings to Knowledge Graphs with Functional Relations ↗Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yetBen Lengerich, Andrew Maas, Christopher Potts2018 · 21 citations
- Modeling Expert Effects and Common Ground Using Questions Under Discussion ↗no summary yetAlex J. Djalali et al.2011 · 21 citations
- “Was it good? It was provocative.” ↗Digital Access to Libraries · no summary yetMarie-Catherine de Marneffe et al.2010 · 21 citations
- Anchored Preference Optimization and Contrastive Revisions: Addressing Underspecification in AlignmentTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Karel D'Oosterlinck, Winnie Xu, Chris Develder, et al.2025 · 20 citations
- Decrypting Cryptic Crosswords: Semantically Complex Wordplay Puzzles as a Target for NLP ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJoshua Rozner, Christopher E. Potts, Kyle Mahowald2021 · 20 citations
- A Case for Deep Learning in Semantics: Response to Pater ↗Language · no summary yetChristopher E. Potts2019 · 20 citations
- Sentiment expression conditioned by affective transitions and social forces ↗ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yetMoritz Sudhof et al.2014 · 20 citations
- ReCOGS: How Incidental Details of a Logical Form Overshadow an Evaluation of Semantic Interpretation ↗Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetZhengxuan Wu, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher Potts2023 · 19 citations
- ReaSCAN: Compositional Reasoning in Language Grounding ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetZhengxuan Wu et al.2021 · 19 citations
- Relational reasoning and generalization using nonsymbolic neural networks. ↗Psychological Review · no summary yetAtticus Geiger et al.2020 · 19 citations
- Recursive Routing Networks: Learning to Compose Modules for Language Understanding ↗Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) · no summary yetIgnacio Cases et al.2019 · 19 citations
- CAW-coref: Conjunction-Aware Word-level Coreference ResolutionWorkshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC)Karel D'Oosterlinck, Semere Kiros Bitew, Brandon Papineau, et al.2023 · 17 citations
- Lexical Semantics with Large Language Models: A Case Study of English “break”Findings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsErika Petersen, Christopher Potts2023 · 17 citations
- Psychologically-informed chain-of-thought prompts for metaphor understanding in large language models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetBen Prystawski et al.2022 · 17 citations
- Postmortem memory of public figures in news and social media ↗Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · no summary yetRobert West, Jure Leskovec, Christopher E. Potts2021 · 17 citations
- Learning Distributed Word Representations for Natural Logic Reasoning ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetSamuel R. Bowman, Christopher E. Potts, Christopher D. Manning2014 · 17 citations
- Recurrent Neural Networks Learn to Store and Generate Sequences using Non-Linear Representations ↗Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP · no summary yetRóbert Csordás et al.2024 · 16 citations
- In-Context Learning for Extreme Multi-Label Classification ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetKarel D’Oosterlinck et al.2024 · 16 citations
- Characterizing English Preposing in PP constructions ↗Journal of Linguistics · no summary yetChristopher E. Potts2024 · 16 citations
- Effective Feature Representation for Clinical Text Concept Extraction ↗Proceedings of the 2nd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop · no summary yetYifeng Tao et al.2019 · 16 citations
- BioDEX: Large-Scale Biomedical Adverse Drug Event Extraction for Real-World Pharmacovigilance ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 · no summary yetKarel D'Oosterlinck et al.2023 · 14 citations
- Causal Interventions Reveal Shared Structure Across English Filler–Gap ConstructionsSasha Boguraev, Christopher Potts, Kyle MahowaldEnglish · 13 citations
- MoEUT: Mixture-of-Experts Universal Transformers ↗neural information processing systems · no summary yetRóbert Csordás et al.2024 · 12 citations
- Moving Beyond Downstream Task Accuracy for Information Retrieval Benchmarking ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · no summary yetKeshav Santhanam et al.2023 · 12 citations
- Generating Bilingual Pragmatic Color References ↗Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers) · no summary yetWill Monroe et al.2018 · 12 citations
- Do Language Models Use Their Depth Efficiently? ↗neural information processing systems · no summary yetRóbert Csordás, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher E. Potts2025 · 11 citations
- Context-VQA: Towards Context-Aware and Purposeful Visual Question Answering ↗IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW) · no summary yetNandita Shankar Naik, Christopher E. Potts, Elisa Kreiss2023 · 11 citations
- Communication-based Evaluation for Natural Language Generation ↗Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2020 · no summary yetBenjamin Newman, Reuben Cohn-Gordon, Christopher Potts2020 · 11 citations
- Veridicality and Utterance Understanding ↗IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) · no summary yetMarie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher E. Potts2011 · 11 citations
- Harmonic Grammar with linear programming: from linear systems to linguistic typology. Phonology ↗no summary yetChristopher E. Potts et al.2010 · 11 citations
- DSPy Assertions: Computational Constraints for Self-Refining Language Model Pipelines ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetArnav Singhvi et al.2023 · 10 citations
- How far can pragmatic mechanisms take us? ↗Theoretical Linguistics · no summary yetChristopher E. Potts2006 · 10 citations
- Improved Representation Steering for Language Models ↗neural information processing systems · no summary yetZhengxuan Wu et al.2025 · 9 citations
- MrT5: Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJulie Kallini et al.2024 · 9 citations
- On the Effective Use of Pretraining for Natural Language Inference ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetIgnacio Cases, Minh-Thang Luong, Christopher E. Potts2017 · 9 citations
- Conversational implicature: interacting with grammar ↗no summary yetChristopher E. Potts, Stanford Linguistics2013 · 9 citations
- False Friends Are Not Foes: Investigating Vocabulary Overlap in Multilingual Language Models ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025 · no summary yetJulie Kallini et al.2025 · 8 citations
- Base Models Beat Aligned Models at Randomness and Creativity ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetWest, Peter, Christopher E. Potts2025 · 8 citations
- MSCAW-coref: Multilingual, Singleton and Conjunction-Aware Word-Level Coreference ResolutionWorkshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC)Houjun Liu, John Bauer, Karel D'Oosterlinck, et al.2024 · 8 citations
- Building efficient and effective OpenQA systems for low-resource languages ↗Knowledge-Based Systems · no summary yetEmrah Budur et al.2024 · 8 citations
- I am a Strange Dataset: Metalinguistic Tests for Language Models ↗Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetTristan Thrush et al.2024 · 8 citations
- Identifying the Limits of Cross-Domain Knowledge Transfer for Pretrained Models ↗Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP · no summary yetZhengxuan Wu, Nelson F. Liu, Christopher Potts2022 · 8 citations
- Enculturation Trajectories: Language, Cultural Adaptation, and Individual Outcomes in Organizations ↗SSRN Electronic Journal · no summary yetSameer B. Srivastava et al.2015 · 8 citations
- \textttpyvene: A Library for Understanding and Improving PyTorch Models via Interventions ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: System Demonstrations) · no summary yetZhengxuan Wu et al.2024 · 7 citations
- The Pragmatic Values of Evidential Sentences ↗Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · no summary yetChristopher Michael Davis, Christopher E. Potts, Margaret Speas2015 · 7 citations
- Japanese Honorifics as Emotive Definite Descriptions ↗Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · no summary yetChristopher E. Potts, Shigeto Kawahara2015 · 6 citations
- A Reply to Makelov et al. (2023)'s "Interpretability Illusion" Arguments ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetZhengxuan Wu et al.2024 · 5 citations
- Updating CLIP to Prefer Descriptions Over Captions ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetAmir Zur et al.2024 · 5 citations
- Detecting Contradictory COVID-19 Drug Efficacy Claims from Biomedical Literature ↗Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yetDaniel Sosa et al.2023 · 5 citations
- Multi-teacher Distillation for Multilingual Spelling Correction ↗Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track · no summary yetJingfen Zhang et al.2023 · 5 citations
- Comparative economy conditions in natural language syntax ↗no summary yetChristopher E. Potts2002 · 5 citations
- ColBERT-Serve: Efficient Multi-stage Memory-Mapped Scoring ↗Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yetKaili Huang et al.2025 · 4 citations
- HyperSteer: Activation Steering at Scale with Hypernetworks ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetSun, Jiuding et al.2025 · 4 citations
- HyperDAS: Towards Automating Mechanistic Interpretability with Hypernetworks ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJiuding Sun et al.2025 · 4 citations
- Invisible failures in human-AI interactions ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetChristopher E. Potts, Moritz Sudhof2026 · 3 citations
- Internal Causal Mechanisms Robustly Predict Language Model Out-of-Distribution Behaviors ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetHuang, Jing et al.2025 · 3 citations
- AmazonQAC: A Large-Scale, Naturalistic Query Autocomplete Dataset ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track · no summary yetDante Everaert et al.2024 · 3 citations
- Prompts as Auto-Optimized Training Hyperparameters: Training Best-in-Class IR Models from Scratch with 10 Gold Labels ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJasper Xian et al.2024 · 3 citations
- GIO: Gradient Information Optimization for Training Dataset Selection ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetDante Everaert, Christopher E. Potts2023 · 3 citations
- ContextRef: Evaluating Referenceless Metrics For Image Description Generation ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetElisa Kreiss et al.2023 · 3 citations
- On the negativity of negation ↗Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · no summary yetChristopher E. Potts2015 · 3 citations
- Language models as tools for investigating the distinction between possible and impossible natural languages ↗Behavioral and Brain Sciences · no summary yetJulie Kallini, Christopher E. Potts2026 · 2 citations
- Blackbox Model Provenance via Palimpsestic Membership Inference ↗neural information processing systems · no summary yetRohith Kuditipudi et al.2025 · 2 citations
- Bayesian scaling laws for in-context learning ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetAryaman Arora et al.2024 · 2 citations
- CommVQA: Situating Visual Question Answering in Communicative Contexts ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetNandita Shankar Naik, Christopher Potts, Elisa Kreiss2024 · 2 citations
- Modeling Subjective Assessments of Guilt in Newspaper Crime Narratives ↗Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning · no summary yetElisa Kreiss, Zijian Wang, Christopher Potts2020 · 2 citations
- A layered semantics for utterance modifiers ↗no summary yetChristopher E. Potts2003 · 2 citations
- Sycophantic Agreement Transfers with Neutral Data via Contrastive Preference Optimization ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetCamila Blank et al.2026 · 1 citation
- Counterfactual Simulation Training for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetPeter Hase, Christopher E. Potts2026 · 1 citation
- Fast Byte Latent Transformer ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJulie Kallini et al.2026 · 1 citation
- Outcome Rewards Do Not Guarantee Verifiable or Causally Important Reasoning ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetQinan Yu et al.2026 · 1 citation
- Mechanistic evaluation of Transformers and state space models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetAryaman Arora et al.2025 · 1 citation
- Diagnosing Bottlenecks in Data Visualization Understanding by Vision-Language Models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetAlexa R. Tartaglini et al.2025 · 1 citation
- Composing Policy Gradients and Prompt Optimization for Language Model Programs ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetNoah Ziems et al.2025 · 1 citation
- Retrieval Augmented Spelling Correction for E-Commerce Applications ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track · no summary yetXuan Guo et al.2024 · 1 citation
- Color Overmodification Emerges from Data-Driven Learning and Pragmatic ReasoningarXiv:2205.09172Fei Fang, Kunal Sinha, Noah D. Goodman, et al.2022 · 1 citation
- A probabilistic pragmatics for English singular some ↗Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · no summary yetLewis Esposito, Christopher E. Potts2021 · 1 citation
- Learning Compositional Negation in Populations of Roth-Erev and Neural Agents ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetGraham Todd, Shane Steinert‐Threlkeld, Christopher E. Potts2020 · 1 citation
- A computational knowledge engine for human neuroscience ↗bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · no summary yetElizabeth Beam et al.2019 · 1 citation
- Modeling Drug-Disease Relations with Linguistic and Knowledge Graph Constraints ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetBruno Godefroy, Christopher E. Potts2019 · 1 citation
- A case for deep learning in semantics ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetChristopher E. Potts2018 · 1 citation
- Multi-Dimensional Sentiment Analysis with Learned Representations ↗no summary yetAndrew L. Maas, Andrew Ng, Christopher E. Potts2012 · 1 citation
- Expressive content as conventional implicature ↗no summary yetChristopher E. Potts2003 · 1 citation
- What we should do is blame do ↗no summary yetChristopher E. Potts2001 · 1 citation
- Do Language Models Consistently Encode the Current Year? ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetSuze van Adrichem et al.2026
- Matryoshka attribution: Learning to attribute language model outputs to representations and weights ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetAryaman Arora et al.2026
- Transcoder Adapters for Reasoning-Model Diffing ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetNathan Hu et al.2026
- Verbalizing Subliminal Learning Effects Using Text Optimization ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetNathan Hu, Sanmi Koyejo, Christopher E. Potts2026
- Why Larger Models Learn More: Effects of Capacity, Interference, and Rare-Task Retention ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJing Huang et al.2026
- PreFT: Prefill-only finetuning for efficient inference ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetAndrew Lanpouthakoun et al.2026
- A paradox of AI fluency ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetChristopher E. Potts, Moritz Sudhof2026
- Synthetic Data for any Differentiable Target ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetTristan Thrush et al.2026
- Document Optimization for Black-Box Retrieval via Reinforcement Learning ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetOmri Uzan et al.2026
- Mechanistic interpretability and control for language models ↗Stanford Digital Repository · no summary yetZhengxuan Wu et al.2026
- Taming and leveraging inconsistencies in pretrained language models ↗Stanford Digital Repository · no summary yetTianyi Zhang et al.2026
- Structured Prompts Improve Evaluation of Language Models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetAsad Aali et al.2025
- What Makes Large Language Models Interpret Context-Free Cross-Lingual Novel Idioms? ↗Stanford Digital Repository · no summary yetRagupathi, Anjali, Christopher E. Potts, Judith Degen2025
- CHART-6: Human-Centered Evaluation of Data Visualization Understanding in Vision-Language Models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetVerma, Arnav et al.2025
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