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Cory Shain

Cory Shain has 3 papers in our library, in 2017–2026, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Sentiment & emotion, Evaluation & benchmarks; often with David King, Kyle Mahowald, Leonie Weissweiler.

3 papers in our library · 2017–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 18 · 92 works · 1,138 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 24 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7999

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 Affiliations

🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States2019–2026 · 21 papersEmployment since 2024 · Assistant Professor, Linguisticscurrent🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States2021–2026 · 18 papersEmployment 2021–2024 · Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain & Cognitive Sciencescurrent🤝Center for Applied LinguisticsWashington · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓The Ohio State UniversityColumbus · United States2008–2025 · 20 papersEmployment 2016–2021 · Graduate student, Linguistics🔬McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchCambridge · United States2021–2024 · 5 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 8The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 3 worksArts and Humanities · 3 worksComputer Science · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 worksDevelopmental and Educational Psychology · 2 worksPsychology · 2 worksCognitive Neuroscience · 1 workNeuroscience · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Sentiment & emotion · 1 workEvaluation & benchmarks · 1 workLanguage models & pretraining · 1 work

💡 Concepts 1Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.Implicature · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20251 paper

2010s

20171 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Breaking NLP: Using Morphosyntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and World Knowledge to Fool Sentiment Analysis Systems (2017 · 34 citations)
    The authors, a team from The Ohio State University, took part as "breakers" in the "Build It Break It" sentiment analysis competition held at EMNLP in 2017.
  2. Constructions are Revealed in Word Distributions (2025 · 9 citations)
    Construction Grammar holds that form-meaning pairings are learned from exposure to language. This paper asks how much constructional information the distribution over word strings actually carries. Plain corpus counts cannot answer causal "what made this word appear here" questions. The authors therefore use RoBERTa…
  3. The Text Aphasia Battery (TAB): A Clinically-Grounded Benchmark for Aphasia-Like Deficits in Language Models (2026)
    Clinical aphasia tests assume a human patient who can see pictures, hear speech, gesture and reflect on their own performance.

 Co-authors here

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

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 24 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 11 citing papers with a page here →.

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