--- title: "Eran Yahav — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Eran Yahav: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018), h-index 48 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eran-yahav/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eran-yahav/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Eran Yahav # Eran Yahav Eran Yahav has 2 papers in our library, in 2018, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Gail Weiss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gail-weiss/), [Omer Levy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-levy/), [Uri Alon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/uri-alon/). 2 papers in our library · 2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5061044883) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4305-6314) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17505307) · [**h-index 48**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5061044883) · [219 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5061044883) · [8,424 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5061044883&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eran-yahav/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 291 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eran-yahav/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4954](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4954) 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=Eran+Yahav) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Eran+Yahav) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Eran+Yahav) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Eran+Yahav) ## Affiliations [🎓**Technion – Israel Institute of Technology** Haifa · Israel 2011–2024 · 107 papersEducationEmployment since 2020 · Professor, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technion-israel-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 2005–2010 · 29 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2004–2011 · 27 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Tel Aviv University** Tel Aviv · Israel 2001–2006 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 3 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eran-yahav/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[On the Practical Computational Power of Finite Precision RNNs for Language Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weiss-2018-practical-computational-power-finite-precision/)** *(2018 · 313 citations)* Classic proofs that RNNs are Turing complete depend on unlimited state precision and unbounded computation time, which do not match how RNNs are used in NLP. 2. **[code2seq: Generating Sequences from Structured Representations of Code](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alon-2018-code2seq-generating-sequences-structured-representations/)** *(2018 · 72 citations)* The paper addresses the automatic generation of a text sequence from a code snippet. Examples include generating a method name or a short natural-language description of the code. Earlier state-of-the-art approaches took machine translation models (seq2seq, NMT) and represented code as a flat sequence of tokens. The… ## All works 8 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. **[code2vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Code ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09473) arXiv:1803.09473 · no summary yet**Uri Alon et al.*2018 · 1,280 citations* 2. **[On the Practical Computational Power of Finite Precision RNNs for Language Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weiss-2018-practical-computational-power-finite-precision/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Gail Weiss, Yoav Goldberg, Eran Yahav*2018 · 313 citations* 3. **[A General Path-Based Representation for Predicting Program Properties ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09544) arXiv:1803.09544 · no summary yet**Uri Alon et al.*2018 · 89 citations* 4. **[A Formal Hierarchy of RNN Architectures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.43/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**William Merrill et al.*2020 · 82 citations* 5. [**code2seq: Generating Sequences from Structured Representations of Code arXiv:1808.01400**Uri Alon, Shaked Brody, Omer Levy, et al.*2018 · 72 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alon-2018-code2seq-generating-sequences-structured-representations/) 6. **[Structural Language Models of Code ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00577) arXiv:1910.00577 · no summary yet**Uri Alon et al.*2019 · 55 citations* 7. **[Structural Language Models for Any-Code Generation. ↗](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=HylZIT4Yvr) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Uri Alon et al.*2019 · 10 citations* 8. **[Last Translation Benchmark ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04173) arXiv:2609.04173 · no summary yet**Vilem Zouhar et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Gail Weiss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gail-weiss/) - [Omer Levy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-levy/) - [Uri Alon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/uri-alon/) - [Yoav Goldberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoav-goldberg/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 291 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [43 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eran-yahav/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026