--- title: "Andrei Butnaru — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Andrei Butnaru: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2018), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-butnaru/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-butnaru/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Andrei Butnaru # Andrei Butnaru Andrei Butnaru has 3 papers in our library, in 2017–2018, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Radu Tudor Ionescu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radu-tudor-ionescu/). 3 papers in our library · 2017–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5030278465) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3031-3203) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5030278465) · [18 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030278465) · [456 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030278465&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-butnaru/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 89 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-butnaru/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7490](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/75/#star-7490) 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=Andrei+Butnaru) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Andrei+Butnaru) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Andrei+Butnaru) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Andrei+Butnaru) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Bucharest** Bucharest · Romania 2016–2020 · 13 papersEducation 2016–2020 · PhD in Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bucharest/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-butnaru/year/2018/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-butnaru/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Learning to Identify Arabic and German Dialects using Multiple Kernels](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ionescu-2017-learning-identify-arabic-german-dialects/)** *(2017 · 64 citations)* The paper describes the UnibucKernel entry to two closed dialect-identification shared tasks at the DSL 2017 Challenge (VarDial). 2. **[UnibucKernel Reloaded: First Place in Arabic Dialect Identification for the Second Year in a Row](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/butnaru-2018-unibuckernel-reloaded-first-place-arabic/)** *(2018 · 39 citations)* The paper describes UnibucKernel, the system that won the closed Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) task at VarDial 2018. 3. **[Improving the results of string kernels in sentiment analysis and Arabic dialect identification by adapting them to your test set](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ionescu-2018-improving-results-string-kernels-sentiment/)** *(2018 · 22 citations)* The paper asks whether string kernels, which already lead several text classification benchmarks, can gain further accuracy by using the unlabeled test set during training. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Automated essay scoring with string kernels and word embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P18-2080/) Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Mădălina Cozma, Andrei Butnaru, Radu Tudor Ionescu*2018 · 161 citations* 2. **[Learning to Identify Arabic and German Dialects using Multiple Kernels](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ionescu-2017-learning-identify-arabic-german-dialects/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Radu Tudor Ionescu, Andrei Butnaru*2017 · 64 citations* 3. **[UnibucKernel Reloaded: First Place in Arabic Dialect Identification for the Second Year in a Row](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/butnaru-2018-unibuckernel-reloaded-first-place-arabic/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Andrei Butnaru, Radu Tudor Ionescu*2018 · 39 citations* 4. **[Improving the results of string kernels in sentiment analysis and Arabic dialect identification by adapting them to your test set](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ionescu-2018-improving-results-string-kernels-sentiment/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Radu Tudor Ionescu, Andrei M. Butnaru*2018 · 22 citations* 5. **[BAM: A combination of deep and shallow models for German Dialect Identification. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1413/) Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects · no summary yet**Butnaru, Andrei M.*2019 · 4 citations* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Radu Tudor Ionescu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radu-tudor-ionescu/) ×3 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/) ×3: [VarDial 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2018/), [VarDial 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2017/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2018/) - Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 89 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-butnaru/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026