🧑‍🔬 Francis Ferraro

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyBaltimore · United States2017–2026 · 67 papersEmployment 2017–2024 · Assistant ProfessorEmployment since 2024 · Associate Professorcurrent🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States2011–2017 · 12 papers🎓University of Maryland, College ParkCollege Park · United States2019–2024 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Visual Storytelling (2016 · 346 citations)
   Image captioning research mostly produces literal descriptions of single photos. This paper asks whether systems can instead produce narratives for photo sequences, using social, evaluative and figurative language grounded in what the images show. The authors build SIND v.1, described as the first dataset for…
2. Semantic Proto-Roles (2015 · 112 citations)
   The paper asks whether Dowty's (1991) proto-role theory can be tested on real corpus data and turned into a practical annotation scheme.
3. The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp Toolkit (2020 · 18 citations)
   Older semantic annotation schemes rely on large, mutually exclusive category inventories. They need expert annotators and fail on borderline cases, on items that fit several categories, and on phenomena the ontology left out. Decompositional semantics replaces categories with many simple questions that untrained…

All works

9 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. Visual StorytellingConference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, Francis Ferraro, Nasrin Mostafazadeh, et al.2016 · 346 citations
2. Semantic Proto-RolesTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Drew Reisinger, Rachel Rudinger, Francis Ferraro, et al.2015 · 112 citations
3. DRP: Distilled Reasoning Pruning with Skill-aware Step Decomposition for Efficient Large Reasoning ModelsarXiv:2505.13975 · original ↗ · no summary yetYuxuan Jiang, Dawei Li, Francis Ferraro2025 · 21 citations
4. The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp ToolkitLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)Aaron Steven White, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Siddharth Vashishtha, et al.2020 · 18 citations
5. Beyond Math: Stories as a Testbed for Memorization-Constrained Reasoning in LLMsProceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yetYuxuan Jiang, Francis Ferraro2026 · 10 citations
6. WikiVideo: Article Generation from Multiple VideosFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · original ↗ · no summary yetAlexander Martin et al.2026 · 5 citations
7. If We May De-Presuppose: Robustly Verifying Claims through Presupposition-Free Question DecompositionProceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025) · original ↗ · no summary yetShubhashis Roy Dipta, Francis Ferraro2025 · 1 citation
8. Findings of the MAGMaR 2026 Shared TaskProceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2026) · original ↗ · no summary yetAlexander Martin et al.2026
9. Experiments or Outcomes? Probing Scientific Feasibility in Large Language ModelsProceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yetSeyedali Mohammadi, Manas Gaur, Francis Ferraro2026

🤝 Co-authors here

12 of 22 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Benjamin Van Durme ×2
• Kyle Rawlins ×2
• Rachel Rudinger ×2
• Aaron Steven White
• Aishwarya Agrawal
• C. Lawrence Zitnick
• Craig Harman
• Devi Parikh
• Dhruv Batra
• Drew Reisinger
• Elias Stengel-Eskin
• Ishan Misra

Venues

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

• Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC): LREC 2020
• Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL): NAACL 2016
• Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL): Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2015
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
• Proceedings of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2025)
• Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
• Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2026)
• Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 226 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 20 citing papers with a page here →.

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