--- title: "Christine Piatko — author profile and papers" description: "Christine Piatko, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2007–2012), h-index 25 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-piatko/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-piatko/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Christine Piatko # Christine Piatko Christine Piatko has 2 papers in our library, in 2007–2012, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Bonnie Dorr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-dorr/), [Chris Callison-Burch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-callison-burch/), [Jason Eisner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-eisner/). 2 papers in our library · 2007–2012 current affiliation [Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory](https://ror.org/029pp9z10) · North Laurel United States [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5043500353) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5295-9112) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68544145) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5043500353) · [94 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043500353) · [8,845 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043500353&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-piatko/#papers) · [128 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-piatko/cited-by/) · 3 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3150](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/32/#star-3150) 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=Christine+Piatko) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Christine+Piatko) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Christine+Piatko) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Christine+Piatko) ## Affiliations [🔬**Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory** North Laurel · United States 1997–2026 · 33 papers*current**employment from 1997 (Wikidata)*](https://ror.org/029pp9z10) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1997–2025 · 33 papers*employment (Wikidata)*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🏛️**National Institute of Standards and Technology** Gaithersburg · United States 1993–1995 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/05xpvk416) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 1989–1993 · 2 papers*education 1989–1993 (Wikidata)*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 1986*education until 1986 (Wikidata)*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Machine translation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baker-2012-modality-negation-simt-use-modality/) ### 2000s [**2007** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zaidan-2007-annotator-rationales-improve-machine-learning/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Using “Annotator Rationales” to Improve Machine Learning for Text Categorization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zaidan-2007-annotator-rationales-improve-machine-learning/)** *(2007 · 352 citations)* Building supervised classifiers needs many labeled examples, and labeling is costly. Zaidan, Eisner and Piatko propose having annotators state not only the label of an example but also why they chose it. While classifying a document, the annotator highlights the text spans ("rationales") that drove the decision. The… 2. **[Modality and Negation in SIMT Use of Modality and Negation in Semantically-Informed Syntactic MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baker-2012-modality-negation-simt-use-modality/)** *(2012 · 77 citations)* The paper asks whether semantic knowledge can improve statistical machine translation for a low-resource pair, Urdu–English, when training data is sparse. ## Also in our library 3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bonnie Dorr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-dorr/) - [Chris Callison-Burch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-callison-burch/) - [Jason Eisner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-eisner/) - [Lori Levin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lori-levin/) - [Omar F. Zaidan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-f-zaidan/) - [Scott Miller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-miller/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 128 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-piatko/cited-by/).