--- title: "Elliott Franco Drabek — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Elliott Franco Drabek: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2004), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliott-franco-drabek/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliott-franco-drabek/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Elliott Franco Drabek # Elliott Franco Drabek Elliott Franco Drabek has 2 papers in our library, in 2004, most of them on [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/); often with [David Yarowsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-yarowsky/), [Dragomir Radev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dragomir-radev/), [John Blitzer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-blitzer/). 2 papers in our library · 2004 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023662193) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8799-1948) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101061669) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023662193) · [34 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023662193) · [1,749 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023662193&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliott-franco-drabek/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 67 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliott-franco-drabek/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4812](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4812) 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=Elliott+Franco+Drabek) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Elliott+Franco+Drabek) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Elliott+Franco+Drabek) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Elliott+Franco+Drabek) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Maryland, Baltimore** Baltimore · United States 2011–2020 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-baltimore/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2003–2005 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2000–2002 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems** Beijing · China 2002 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/state-key-laboratory-of-intelligent-technology-and-systems/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## 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 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Text summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/text-summarization/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2004** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliott-franco-drabek/year/2004/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MEAD - A Platform for Multidocument Multilingual Text Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/radev-2004-mead-platform-multidocument-multilingual-text/)** *(2004 · 400 citations)* Research on extractive multidocument summarization lacked a shared, freely available toolkit where competing sentence-scoring methods and evaluation measures could be compared under the same conditions. 2. **[Improving Bitext Word Alignments via Syntax-based Reordering of English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/drabek-2004-improving-bitext-word-alignments-syntax/)** *(2004 · 7 citations)* Statistical word aligners such as the IBM models handle local word-order shifts well but struggle when two languages differ in long-range constituent order. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David Yarowsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-yarowsky/) - [Dragomir Radev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dragomir-radev/) - [John Blitzer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-blitzer/) - [Wai Lam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wai-lam/) ## 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 2004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2004/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2004/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 67 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliott-franco-drabek/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026