Jonathan May
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science
Researches machine translation, low-resource languages and natural language generation at ISI.
Jonathan May's lab at USC works on multilingual, translation & linguistics and dialogue, generation & summarization. 53 papers since 2023, 31 at top venues, mostly ACL and EMNLP. 13 PhD students and 3 master's students. 8 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 58%
- PhD students
- 13
- MS students
- 3
- alumni listed
- 8
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 10 papers2026 · T1 6 · collecting
- 15 papers2025 · T1 7
- 14 papers2024 · T1 10
- 14 papers2023 · T1 8
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, EMNLP, Findings of EMNLP, NAACL, Findings of ACL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics2 papers
- Dialogue, generation & summarization2 papers
- low-resource languages0 papers
- language generation0 papers
- low-resource0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202610 papers
- EACLA Representation Sharpening Framework for Zero Shot Dense Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. COLMGecko: An Efficient Neural Architecture Inherently Processing Sequences with Arbitrary Lengths, (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)GTA: Generating Long-horizon Tasks for Web Agents at Scale (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)How Language Models Process Negation (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Optimizing Diversity and Quality through Base-Aligned Model Collaboration (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Sparse Layers are Critical to Scaling Looped Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Toward Interactive Understanding of Code APIs (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPTranslating the Untranslatable: An Operationalizable Ontology for Untranslatability (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Uncovering Intervention Opportunities for Suicide Prevention with Language Model Assistants (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPWhich Questions Improve Learning the Most? Utility Estimation of Questions with LM-based Simulations (opens in a new tab)
202515 papers
- ACL (T1)A Little Human Data Goes A Long Way (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLCan Vision Language Models Understand Mimed Actions? (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPCan VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)FoodPuzzle: Toward Developing Large Language Models as Autonomous Flavor Scientists (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Language Models Can Predict Their Own Behavior (opens in a new tab)
- ICCL Industry TrackLearning to Rewrite Negation Queries in Product Search (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)NewsInterview: a Dataset and a Playground to Evaluate LLMs' Grounding Gap via Informational Interviews (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)Personalized Help for Optimizing Low-Skilled Users' Strategy (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)R2D2: Remembering, Replaying and Dynamic Decision Making with a Reflective Agentic Memory (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLShould I Trust You? Detecting Deception in Negotiations using Counterfactual RL (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)Style Transfer with Multi-iteration Preference Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPTeaching Language Models To Gather Information Proactively (opens in a new tab)
202414 papers
- EMNLP (T1)Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Human-Level Narratives? (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACL Demo SessionsBotEval: Facilitating Interactive Human Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)Can Language Model Moderators Improve the Health of Online Discourse? (opens in a new tab)
- ICWSMCPL-NoViD: Context-Aware Prompt-based Learning for Norm Violation Detection in Online Communities (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPExplaining Mixtures of Sources in News Articles (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)GPT is Not an Annotator: The Necessity of Human Annotation in Fairness Benchmark Construction (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)LegalDiscourse: Interpreting When Laws Apply and To Whom (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)Leitner-Guided Memory Replay for Cross-lingual Continual Learning (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Megalodon: Efficient LLM Pretraining and Inference with Unlimited Context Length (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)More Victories, Less Cooperation: Assessing Cicero’s Diplomacy Play (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Multilingual Meta-Distillation Alignment for Semantic Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Speechworthy Instruction-tuned Language Models (opens in a new tab)
202314 papers
- EMNLP (T1)Analyzing Norm Violations in Live-Stream Chat (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. SBP-BRiMSAnger Breeds Controversy: Analyzing Controversy and Emotions on Reddit (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. The Workshop on Interactive and Scalable Information Retrieval Methods for eCommerce (ISIR-eCom).Blend and Match: Distilling Semantic Search Models with Different Inductive Biases and Model Architectures (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EACLBridging the Gap between Native Text and Translated Text through Adversarial Learning: A Case Study on Cross-Lingual Event Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Challenges in Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Continual Dialogue State Tracking via Example-Guided Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Cross-lingual Continual Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. SBP-BRiMSFeedback Loops and Complex Dynamics of Harmful Speech in Online Discussions (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. The Joint Computation + Journalism European Data & Computational Journalism ConferenceFirst Steps Towards a Source Recommendation Engine: Investigating How Sources Are Used in News Articles (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Identifying Informational Sources in News Articles (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLKnow Where You're Going: Meta-Learning for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Mega: Moving Average Equipped Gated Attention (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went8 listed
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