--- title: "Gaurav Kumar — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Gaurav Kumar, Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2026), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-kumar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-kumar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gaurav Kumar # Gaurav Kumar Gaurav Kumar has 3 papers in our library, in 2014–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Chris Callison-Burch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-callison-burch/), [Daniel Povey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-povey/), [Kevin Duh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-duh/). 3 papers in our library · 2014–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5111048122) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5111048122) · [41 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111048122) · [904 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111048122&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-kumar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 142 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-kumar/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5702](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/58/#star-5702) 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=Gaurav+Kumar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gaurav+Kumar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gaurav+Kumar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gaurav+Kumar) ## Affiliations [🎓**Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute** Chennai · India 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/053hsst90) · [🎓**Mohan Babu University** Tirupati · India 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/00s4s8963) · [🎓**Poornima University** Jaipur · India 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/03gnqp653) · [🎓**Sharda University** Greater Noida · India 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/03b6ffh07) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2013–2021 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🏢**Samsung** Bengaluru · India 2019–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04cpx2569) · [🎓**Kammavari Sangham Institute of Technology** Bengaluru · India 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02bktye12) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur** Kanpur · India 2019–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur/) · [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🔬**Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur** Orsay · France 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-pour-la-mecanique-et-les-sciences-de-l-ingenieur/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 10 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 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 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-kumar/year/2026/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-kumar/year/2019/) · [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-kumar/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Curriculum Learning for Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2019-curriculum-learning-domain-adaptation-neural/)** *(2019 · 169 citations)* Neural MT systems trained on broad, mixed-domain data tend to underperform on specialised domains where parallel text is scarce. 2. **[Translations of the Callhome Egyptian Arabic corpus for conversational speech translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kumar-2014-translations-callhome-egyptian-arabic-corpus/)** *(2014 · 28 citations)* Research on translating conversational speech has been held back by the lack of in-domain data. For Egyptian Arabic in particular, no resource aligned speech, transcripts and English translations from the same domain. As a result, translation systems were usually trained on scripted or written text that differs… 3. **[AI-Monitors at SemEval-2026 Task 4: A Hybrid Embedding and LLM Ensemble for Narrative Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tripathi-2026-ai-monitors-semeval-2026-task/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper addresses SemEval-2026 Task 4 (Track A). Given an anchor story, a system must decide which of two candidate stories is closer to it in narrative terms: Abstract Theme, Course of Action and Outcomes, not word overlap. The dataset uses Wikipedia synopses and keeps mainly ambiguous triples on which two… ## All works 5 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. **[Curriculum Learning for Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2019-curriculum-learning-domain-adaptation-neural/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Xuan Zhang, Pamela Shapiro, Gaurav Kumar, et al.*2019 · 169 citations* 2. **[Complexity-Weighted Loss and Diverse Reranking for Sentence Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1317/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) · no summary yet**Reno Kriz et al.*2019 · 93 citations* 3. **[Reinforcement Learning based Curriculum Optimization for Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1208/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) · no summary yet**Gaurav Kumar et al.*2019 · 93 citations* 4. **[Translations of the Callhome Egyptian Arabic corpus for conversational speech translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kumar-2014-translations-callhome-egyptian-arabic-corpus/) [International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwslt/)**Gaurav Kumar, Yuan Cao, Ryan Cotterell, et al.*2014 · 28 citations* 5. **[AI-Monitors at SemEval-2026 Task 4: A Hybrid Embedding and LLM Ensemble for Narrative Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tripathi-2026-ai-monitors-semeval-2026-task/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Vishnu Tripathi, Prakhar Joshi, Azad Singh, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chris Callison-Burch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-callison-burch/) - [Daniel Povey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-povey/) - [Kevin Duh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-duh/) - [Marine Carpuat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marine-carpuat/) - [Pamela Shapiro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pamela-shapiro/) - [Paul McNamee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-mcnamee/) - [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/) - [Sanjeev Khudanpur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjeev-khudanpur/) - [Xuan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-zhang/) - [Yuan Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuan-cao/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) ×2 - [International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwslt/): [IWSLT 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwslt/2014/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2019/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 142 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-kumar/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026