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# Alon Lavie

7 paper cards in the Research library · 2002–2022

Alon Lavie wrote 7 of the papers Mova reads, in 2002–2022, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/); often with [Craig Stewart](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/craig-stewart/), [Erik Peterson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-peterson/), [Katharina Probst](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-probst/).

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5103284923) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9934-6519) · [**h-index 36**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5103284923) · [11339 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5103284923) · [264 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103284923) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

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Topics: [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) 7 · [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) 1

## Papers

1. **[Results of WMT22 Metrics Shared Task: Stop Using BLEU – Neural Metrics Are Better and More Robust](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2022-results-wmt22-metrics-shared-task/)** *(2022)* The shared task scored submitted MT metrics on WMT22 system outputs for three pairs (English to German, English to Russian, Chinese to English) across four domains: news, social, e-commerce and chat.
2. **[COMET: A Neural Framework for MT Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2020-comet-neural-framework-mt-evaluation/)** *(2020)* The paper asks how to score a machine translation against human judgement more reliably than n-gram metrics such as BLEU.
3. **[Machine Translation between Hebrew and Arabic: Needs, Challenges and Preliminary Solutions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lingbulk-2010-shilon-machine-translation-between-hebrew-arabic/)** *(2010)* Modern Hebrew and Standard Arabic share orthography, root-and-pattern morphology, clitics and much of their vocabulary, but they differ in case, dual number, broken plurals, the feminine ending in genitive constructions and the agreement of irrational plural nouns.
4. **[METEOR: An Automatic Metric for MT Evaluation with Improved Correlation with Human Judgments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banerjee-2005-meteor-automatic-metric-mt-evaluation/)** *(2005)* The paper proposes METEOR, a sentence-level metric built on explicit word-to-word alignment between the system output and each reference.
5. **[Rapid prototyping of a transfer-based Hebrew-to-English machine translation system](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lavie-2004-rapid-prototyping-transfer-based-hebrew/)** *(2004)* A two-month build of a first broad-domain Hebrew-to-English system, about four person-months of work, on top of existing public resources.
6. **[A trainable transfer-based MT approach for languages with limited resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lavie-2004-trainable-transfer-based-mt-approach/)** *(2004)* An approach for languages with few resources. Bilingual speakers, who need not be linguists, translate a designed English corpus into their language and mark word alignments in a special tool. The corpus is organised in minimal pairs and in order of complexity, from noun phrases to sentences, so that rules can be…
7. **[Balancing Expressiveness and Simplicity in an Interlingua for Task Based Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/levin-2002-balancing-expressiveness-simplicity-interlingua-task/)** *(2002)* The paper compares two domain-action interlinguas for speech translation in travel dialogue. The older C-star II format has 44 speech acts, 93 concepts and 117 argument names; the Nespole format is finer, with 65 speech acts, 110 concepts and 292 arguments. The authors re-tag the C-star II database (about 2,300…

## Co-authors (27)

- [Craig Stewart](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/craig-stewart/) ×2
- [Erik Peterson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-peterson/) ×2
- [Katharina Probst](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-probst/) ×2
- [Lori Levin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lori-levin/) ×2
- [Ricardo Rei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ricardo-rei/) ×2
- [Shuly Wintner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuly-wintner/) ×2
- Ana C Farinha
- André F. T. Martins
- Ariadna Font-Llitjos
- [Chi-kiu Lo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chi-kiu-lo/)
- Donna Gates
- Dorcas Pianta
- [Eleftherios Avramidis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eleftherios-avramidis/)
- Fabio Pianesi
- [George Foster](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-foster/)
- [Jaime Carbonell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jaime-carbonell/)
- Kay Peterson
- [Markus Freitag](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-freitag/)
- Nadia Mana
- [Nitika Mathur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nitika-mathur/)
- [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/)
- Reshef Shilon
- Roldano Cattoni
- Satanjeev Banerjee
- [Stephan Vogel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephan-vogel/)
- Tom Kocmi
- Yaniv Eytani

## More papers in the library (11)

Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each.

- [COMET-22: Unbabel-IST 2022 Submission for the Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2022-comet-22-unbabel-ist-2022/) — Ricardo Rei, José G. C. de Souza, Duarte Alves, et al. · 2022
- [CometKiwi: IST-Unbabel 2022 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2022-cometkiwi-ist-unbabel-2022-submission/) — Ricardo Rei, Marcos Treviso, Nuno M. Guerreiro, et al. · 2022
- [Are References Really Needed? Unbabel-IST 2021 Submission for the Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2021-are-references-really-needed-unbabel/) — Ricardo Rei, Ana C Farinha, Chrysoula Zerva, et al. · 2021
- [Results of the WMT21 Metrics Shared Task: Evaluating Metrics with Expert-based Human Evaluations on TED and News Domain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2021-results-wmt21-metrics-shared-task/) — Markus Freitag, Ricardo Rei, Nitika Mathur, et al. · 2021
- [Unbabel's Participation in the WMT20 Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2020-unbabel-s-participation-wmt20-metrics/) — Ricardo Rei, Craig Stewart, Ana C Farinha, et al. · 2020
- [Meteor Universal: Language Specific Translation Evaluation for Any Target Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/denkowski-2014-meteor-universal-language-specific-translation/) — Michael Denkowski, Alon Lavie · 2014
- [Meteor 1.3: Automatic Metric for Reliable Optimization and Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/denkowski-2011-meteor-1-3-automatic-metric/) — Michael Denkowski, Alon Lavie · 2011
- [METEOR: An Automatic Metric for MT Evaluation with High Levels of Correlation with Human Judgments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lavie-2007-meteor-automatic-metric-mt-evaluation/) — Alon Lavie, Abhaya Agarwal · 2007
- [Parser Combination by Reparsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sagae-2006-parser-combination-reparsing/) — Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie · 2006
- [A Classifier-Based Parser with Linear Run-Time Complexity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sagae-2005-classifier-based-parser-linear-run/) — Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie · 2005
- [Tagging of Speech Acts and Dialogue Games in Spanish Call Home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/levin-1999-tagging-speech-acts-dialogue-games/) — Lori Levin, Klaus Ries, Ann Thyme-Gobbel, et al. · 1999