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# Elizabeth Salesky

Elizabeth Salesky has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Arun Raja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arun-raja/), [Benoît Sagot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-sagot/), [Chenglei Si](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglei-si/).

2 papers in our library · 2021–2026

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[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-salesky/#papers) · [🔗 89 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-salesky/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4190](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4190)

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## Topics

[Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salesky-2026-amta-best-thesis-award-abstract/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mielke-2021-between-words-characters-brief-history/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Between words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mielke-2021-between-words-characters-brief-history/)** *(2021 · 89 citations)* This is a survey paper by the BigScience Workshop tokenization working group. The authors examine which units of text NLP models should operate on: words, subwords, characters, bytes, or even pixels. The paper offers no new data and no method of its own. Instead, it connects research from the pre-neural and neural…
2. **[AMTA Best Thesis Award Abstract: Overcoming Vocabulary Challenges in Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salesky-2026-amta-best-thesis-award-abstract/)** *(2026)* This award-winning thesis abstract addresses a part of NLP pipelines that has changed little since neural MT emerged: building the model vocabulary.

## Co-authors here

8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Arun Raja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arun-raja/)
- [Benoît Sagot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-sagot/)
- [Chenglei Si](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglei-si/)
- [Colin Raffel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-raffel/)
- [Manan Dey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manan-dey/)
- [Sabrina J. Mielke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sabrina-j-mielke/)
- [Samson Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samson-tan/)
- [Zaid Alyafeai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zaid-alyafeai/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 89 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-salesky/cited-by/).