William Sheffield
William Sheffield wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2023–2025, most of them on Discourse analysis; often with Junyi Jessy Li, Kyle Mahowald, Ashwini Deo.
Topics: Discourse analysis 1
Papers
- Is It \textit JUST Semantics? A Case Study of Discourse Particle Understanding in LLMs (2025)
The English discourse particle "just" has several senses: exclusive ("Betsy just eats chicken nuggets"), temporal ("just arrived"), unelaboratory ("Fido is just a dog"), unexplanatory ("the lights just turn on and off") and emphatic ("just delicious"). - Elaborative Simplification as Implicit Questions Under Discussion (2023)
When editors simplify news for children (Newsela), they often add sentences that explain rather than shorten.
Co-authors (6)
- Junyi Jessy Li ×2
- Kyle Mahowald ×2
- Ashwini Deo
- Kanishka Misra
- Valentina Pyatkin
- Yating Wu
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