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Yan Cong

Yan Cong has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2022, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Discourse analysis, Implicature; often with Allyson Ettinger.

2 papers in our library · 2021–2022

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 8 · 27 works · 204 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 21 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7979

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 Affiliations

🎓Purdue University West LafayetteWest Lafayette · United States2023–2026 · 13 paperscurrent🎓Purdue University SystemWest Lafayette · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent🏥Zucker Hillside HospitalNew York · United States2022 · 5 papers🔬Feinstein Institute for Medical ResearchManhasset · United States2022–2023 · 2 papers🎓Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing · United States2021 · 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.

 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Language models & pretraining · 2 worksDiscourse analysis · 1 workImplicature · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20221 paper20211 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectives (2021 · 42 citations)
    How much pragmatic knowledge do masked language models acquire from pre-training alone? The authors probe this through discourse connectives, words like "but" or "so" that mark how two events relate and can carry implied meanings.
  2. Pre-trained Language Models' Interpretation of Evaluativity Implicature: Evidence from Gradable Adjectives Usage in Context (2022 · 2 citations)
    This paper asks whether pre-trained language models grasp evaluativity (EVAL), a subtle pragmatic inference.

 Co-authors here

1 co-author 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 21 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 5 citing papers with a page here →.

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