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Dawn Lawrie

Dawn Lawrie has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP, Information retrieval & search; often with Benjamin Van Durme, Orion Weller, Daniel Khashabi.

4 papers in our library · 2024–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 26 · 174 works · 2,573 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 4 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 183 times in our library · 3 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6225

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 Affiliations

🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States2011–2026 · 75 papersEmployment since 2019 · Senior Research Scientist, Human Language Technology Center of Excellencecurrent🔬Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceSeattle · United States2024–2026 · 3 paperscurrent🎓Loyola University MarylandBaltimore · United States2003–2019 · 42 papersEmployment 2003–2019 · Full Professor, Computer Science🎓University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherst Center · United States1999–2005 · 7 papers🎓University of GlasgowGlasgow · United Kingdom2024–2025 · 4 papers🎓Yale UniversityNew Haven · United States2024–2025 · 3 papers🎓Institut Polytechnique de ParisPalaiseau · France2024–2025 · 2 papers🎓Télécom ParisPalaiseau · France2024–2025 · 2 papers🔬Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryNorth Laurel · United States2023–2024 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 4 worksComputer Science · 4 worksArtificial Intelligence · 4 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 4 worksInformation Systems · 2 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 workLanguage models & pretraining · 1 workInformation retrieval & search · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20252 papers20241 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. mmBERT: A Modern Multilingual Encoder with Annealed Language Learning (2025 · 59 citations)
    Multilingual encoder-only models have seen little progress in recent years, and XLM-R remains the default choice despite being more than six years old.
  2. “According to . . . “: Prompting Language Models Improves Quoting from Pre-Training Data (2024 · 46 citations)
    Large language models often invent facts even though they were trained on reliable text. The authors test whether a simple cue in the prompt, such as "According to Wikipedia", can make a model reproduce more material it memorized during pre-training. To measure this, they introduce QUIP-Score (Quoted Information…
  3. FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions (2025 · 40 citations)
    Neural retrievers are built on language models that can obey elaborate prompts, yet almost no retrieval system lets users attach detailed instructions to a query.
  4. Query Decomposition for RAG: Balancing Exploration-Exploitation (2026 · 2 citations)
    In RAG, complex requests are often split into sub-queries. Pulling a fixed number of documents for each one, however, floods the generator with irrelevant text and can overflow the context window. Petcu et al. treat the choice of which sub-query to read from, and how far down its ranked list to go, as a multi-armed…

All works

7 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. mmBERT: A Modern Multilingual Encoder with Annealed Language LearningarXiv:2509.06888Marc Marone, Orion Weller, William Fleshman, et al.2025 · 59 citations
  2. Transfer Learning Approaches for Building Cross-Language Dense Retrieval Models ↗ECIR 2022 · no summary yetSuraj Nair et al.2022 · 51 citations
  3. “According to . . . “: Prompting Language Models Improves Quoting from Pre-Training DataConference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)Orion Weller, Marc Marone, Nathaniel Weir, et al.2024 · 46 citations
  4. FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow InstructionsConference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)Orion Weller, Benjamin Chang, Sean MacAvaney, et al.2025 · 40 citations
  5. CLERC: A Dataset for U. S. Legal Case Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Analysis Generation ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025 · no summary yetAbe Bohan Hou et al.2025 · 29 citations
  6. CLERC: A Dataset for Legal Case Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Analysis Generation ↗arXiv:2406.17186 · no summary yetAbe Bohan Hou et al.2024 · 21 citations
  7. Query Decomposition for RAG: Balancing Exploration-ExploitationConference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)Roxana Petcu, Kenton Murray, Daniel Khashabi, et al.2026 · 2 citations

 Co-authors here

12 of 14 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 183 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 50 citing papers with a page here →.

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