--- title: "Esteban Garces Arias — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Esteban Garces Arias, Munich Center for Machine Learning: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esteban-garces-arias/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esteban-garces-arias/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Esteban Garces Arias # Esteban Garces Arias Esteban Garces Arias has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/); often with [Matthias Assenmacher](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthias-assenmacher/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5114076222) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5114076222) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114076222) · [15 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114076222&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esteban-garces-arias/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 21 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esteban-garces-arias/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9510](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/96/#star-9510) 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=Esteban+Garces+Arias) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Esteban+Garces+Arias) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Esteban+Garces+Arias) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Esteban+Garces+Arias) ## Affiliations [🎓**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München** Munich · Germany 2023–2026 · 36 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) · [🎓**Munich Center for Machine Learning** Munich · Germany 2024–2026 · 22 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/munich-center-for-machine-learning/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Human-Computer Interaction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/human-computer-interaction/) · [Media Technology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/media-technology/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Part-of-speech tagging · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esteban-garces-arias/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esteban-garces-arias/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Decoding Decoded: Understanding Hyperparameter Effects in Open-Ended Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arias-2025-decoding-decoded-understanding-hyperparameter-effects/)** *(2025 · 12 citations)* LLMs output token probabilities, and the decoding step that turns them into text is often left at default settings even though it strongly shapes output quality. 2. **[Digitizing Nepal's Written Heritage: A Comprehensive HTR Pipeline for Old Nepali Manuscripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sarawgi-2026-digitizing-nepal-s-written-heritage/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Old Nepali is a low-resource historical language, and no handwritten text recognition (HTR) system existed for it. 3. **[From Traditional Taggers to LLMs: A Comparative Study of POS Tagging for Medieval Romance Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schoffel-2026-traditional-taggers-llms-comparative-study/)** *(2026)* Medieval Romance texts are difficult to tag for parts of speech. Their spelling is unstable, their morphology is rich, and little annotated data exists, so tools built for modern standard languages often fail on them. The authors test this task on three varieties: Medieval Occitan (NAF6195, a 14th-century manuscript… ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Decoding Decoded: Understanding Hyperparameter Effects in Open-Ended Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arias-2025-decoding-decoded-understanding-hyperparameter-effects/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Esteban Garces Arias, Meimingwei Li, Christian Heumann, et al.*2025 · 12 citations* 2. **[Challenging Error Correction in Recognised Byzantine Greek ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.ml4al-1.1/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024) · no summary yet**John Pavlopoulos et al.*2024 · 7 citations* 3. **[A tailored Handwritten-Text-Recognition System for Medieval Latin ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.alp-1.12/) Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop · no summary yet**Philipp Koch et al.*2023 · 3 citations* 4. **[Digitizing Nepal's Written Heritage: A Comprehensive HTR Pipeline for Old Nepali Manuscripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sarawgi-2026-digitizing-nepal-s-written-heritage/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Anjali Sarawgi, Esteban Garces Arias, Christof Zotter*2026 · 2 citations* 5. **[From Traditional Taggers to LLMs: A Comparative Study of POS Tagging for Medieval Romance Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schoffel-2026-traditional-taggers-llms-comparative-study/) [International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4dh/)**Matthias Schöffel, Esteban Garces Arias*2026* 6. **[Lost in Translation? Exploring the Shift in Grammatical Gender from Latin to Occitan ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4dh-1.26/) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities · no summary yet**Ahan Chatterjee et al.*2026* 7. **[Self-Reinforcing Controllable Synthesis of Rare Relational Data via Bayesian Calibration ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.423/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · no summary yet**Chongsheng Zhang et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Matthias Assenmacher](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthias-assenmacher/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4dh/) ×2: [International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4dh/2026/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024) - Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 21 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esteban-garces-arias/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026