--- title: "David Stap — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "David Stap, University of Amsterdam: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-stap/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-stap/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David Stap # David Stap David Stap has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Genta Indra Winata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/genta-indra-winata/), [Jay Gala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-gala/), [Kenneth Christian Enevoldsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenneth-christian-enevoldsen/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5015155057) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5015155057) · [32 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015155057) · [395 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015155057&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-stap/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 320 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-stap/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5075](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/51/#star-5075) 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=David+Stap) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+Stap) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+Stap) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+Stap) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2020–2026 · 24 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🏢**NXAI GmbH** Linz · Austria 2025–2026 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03wj5m279) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper David Stap's papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stap-2026-analyzing-improving-cross-lingual-knowledge/) · [**2025** 1 paper David Stap's papers of 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/enevoldsen-2025-mmteb-massive-multilingual-text-embedding/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/enevoldsen-2025-mmteb-massive-multilingual-text-embedding/)** *(2025 · 101 citations)* Embedding models are usually tested on narrow benchmarks that cover few languages, domains and task types, and full evaluation is often too costly for communities with little compute. 2. **[Analyzing and Improving Cross-lingual Knowledge Transfer for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stap-2026-analyzing-improving-cross-lingual-knowledge/)** *(2026)* Most of the world's languages have little parallel data, so translating them depends on multilingual models reusing knowledge learned from better-resourced languages. This EAMT 2026 thesis abstract by David Stap (University of Amsterdam) studies that cross-lingual transfer from four angles. ## All works 4 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. [**MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark arXiv:2502.13595**Kenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua, et al.*2025 · 101 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/enevoldsen-2025-mmteb-massive-multilingual-text-embedding/) 2. **[Can LLMs Really Learn to Translate a Low-Resource Language from One Grammar Book? ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19151) ICLR 2025 (arXiv:2409.19151) · no summary yet**Seth Aycock et al.*2025 · 31 citations* 3. **[The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.336/) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**David Stap et al.*2024 · 22 citations* 4. **[Analyzing and Improving Cross-lingual Knowledge Transfer for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stap-2026-analyzing-improving-cross-lingual-knowledge/) [Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eamt/)**David Stap*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Genta Indra Winata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/genta-indra-winata/) - [Jay Gala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-gala/) - [Kenneth Christian Enevoldsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenneth-christian-enevoldsen/) - [Saba Sturua](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saba-sturua/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eamt/): [EAMT 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eamt/2026/) - [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/) - ICLR 2025 (arXiv:2409.19151) - Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 320 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [29 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-stap/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026