--- title: "Amr Sharaf — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Amr Sharaf: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-sharaf/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-sharaf/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Amr Sharaf # Amr Sharaf Amr Sharaf has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Arul Menezes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arul-menezes/), [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/), [Hany Hassan Awadalla](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hany-hassan-awadalla/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5068614789) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5068614789) · [26 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068614789) · [446 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068614789&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-sharaf/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 583 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-sharaf/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4132](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4132) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Amr+Sharaf) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Amr+Sharaf) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Amr+Sharaf) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Amr+Sharaf) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2017–2021 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Alexandria University** Alexandria · Egypt 2015 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/alexandria-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2024-contrastive-preference-optimization-pushing-boundaries/) · [**2023** 1 paper Leveraging GPT-4 for Automatic Translation Post-Editing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/raunak-2023-leveraging-gpt-4-automatic-translation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2024-contrastive-preference-optimization-pushing-boundaries/)** *(2024 · 207 citations)* Mid-sized LLMs (7B/13B) translate reasonably well but still trail GPT-4 and the strongest WMT systems. The authors trace part of this gap to supervised fine-tuning (SFT). SFT copies reference translations, so the model can only be as good as those references. It also never teaches the model to avoid output that is… 2. **[Leveraging GPT-4 for Automatic Translation Post-Editing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/raunak-2023-leveraging-gpt-4-automatic-translation/)** *(2023 · 107 citations)* Even strong NMT systems sometimes produce badly broken output, so translations used in high-stakes settings still need post-editing. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[How Good Are GPT Models at Machine Translation? A Comprehensive Evaluation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09210) arXiv:2302.09210 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Amr Hendy et al.*2023 · 525 citations* 2. [**Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation arXiv:2401.08417**Haoran Xu, Amr Sharaf, Yunmo Chen, et al.*2024 · 207 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2024-contrastive-preference-optimization-pushing-boundaries/) 3. **[Leveraging GPT-4 for Automatic Translation Post-Editing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/raunak-2023-leveraging-gpt-4-automatic-translation/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Vikas Raunak, Amr Sharaf, Yiren Wang, et al.*2023 · 107 citations* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arul Menezes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arul-menezes/) - [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/) - [Hany Hassan Awadalla](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hany-hassan-awadalla/) - [Haoran Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoran-xu/) - [Kenton Murray](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenton-murray/) - [Lingfeng Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingfeng-shen/) - [Vikas Raunak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vikas-raunak/) - [Weiting Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiting-tan/) - [Yiren Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiren-wang/) - [Yunmo Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunmo-chen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 583 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [62 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-sharaf/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026