--- title: "Andrew Finch — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Andrew Finch, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2006–2016), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-finch/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-finch/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Andrew Finch # Andrew Finch Andrew Finch has 2 papers in our library, in 2006–2016, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Eiichiro Sumita](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eiichiro-sumita/), [Ezra Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ezra-black/), [Lemao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lemao-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2006–2016 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5081198426) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7067-7098) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5081198426) · [98 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081198426) · [1,003 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081198426&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-finch/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 106 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-finch/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5157](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5157) 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=Andrew+Finch) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Andrew+Finch) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Andrew+Finch) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Andrew+Finch) ## Affiliations [🔬**National Institute of Information and Communications Technology** Tokyo · Japan 2009–2020 · 47 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-information-and-communications-technology/) · [🏢**Apple** Cupertino · United States 2018–2020 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/apple/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2020 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2020 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🔬**Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International** Kyoto · Japan 1998–2008 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/advanced-telecommunications-research-institute-international/) · [🎓**University of Malta** Msida · Malta 2016 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-malta/) · [🎓**Nara Institute of Science and Technology** Ikoma · Japan 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/) 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 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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper Andrew Finch's papers of 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2016-neural-machine-translation-supervised-attention/) ### 2000s [**2006** 1 paper Andrew Finch's papers of 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finch-2006-lexical-dependency-ontological-knowledge-improve/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Neural Machine Translation with Supervised Attention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2016-neural-machine-translation-supervised-attention/)** *(2016 · 84 citations)* Attention in neural machine translation (Bahdanau et al., 2015) yields soft word alignments that are much worse than those from classical aligners. 2. **[Using Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve a Detailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger of English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finch-2006-lexical-dependency-ontological-knowledge-improve/)** *(2006 · 3 citations)* The paper tags each word with a syntactic tag and a broad semantic class at once, using a maximum-entropy tagger with a beam search from left to right. ## All works 7 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. **[Using Machine Translation Evaluation Techniques to Determine Sentence-level Semantic Equivalence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/I05-5003/) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005) · no summary yet**Andrew Finch, Young-Sook Hwang, Eiichiro Sumita*2005 · 128 citations* 2. **[Neural Machine Translation with Supervised Attention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2016-neural-machine-translation-supervised-attention/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Lemao Liu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, et al.*2016 · 84 citations* 3. **[Reducing human assessment of machine translation quality to binary classifiers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2007.tmi-papers.19/) Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages: Papers · no summary yet**Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita*2007 · 19 citations* 4. **[How Does Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Correlate with Human Scoring as the Number of Reference Translations Increases? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L04-1147/) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04) · no summary yet**Andrew Finch, Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita*2004 · 14 citations* 5. **[Hierarchical Phrase-based Stream Decoding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D15-1128/) Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Andrew Finch et al.*2015 · 4 citations* 6. [**Using Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve a Detailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger of English**Andrew Finch, Ezra Black, Young-Sook Hwang, et al.*English · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/finch-2006-lexical-dependency-ontological-knowledge-improve/) 7. **[Syntactic Constraints on Phrase Extraction for Phrase-Based Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W10-3804/) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Hailong Cao, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita*2010 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Eiichiro Sumita](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eiichiro-sumita/) ×2 - [Ezra Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ezra-black/) - [Lemao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lemao-liu/) - [Masao Utiyama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masao-utiyama/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2006/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2016/) - Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages: Papers - Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'04) - Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 106 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-finch/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026