--- title: "Gorka Azkune — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Gorka Azkune, University of the Basque Country: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gorka-azkune/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gorka-azkune/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gorka Azkune # Gorka Azkune Gorka Azkune has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Aitor Soroa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-soroa/), [Julen Etxaniz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julen-etxaniz/), [Mikel Artetxe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mikel-artetxe/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5007160780) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2506-7426) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5007160780) · [56 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007160780) · [1,254 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007160780&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gorka-azkune/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 73 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gorka-azkune/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5091](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/51/#star-5091) 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=Gorka+Azkune) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gorka+Azkune) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gorka+Azkune) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gorka+Azkune) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of the Basque Country** Leioa · Spain 2020–2026 · 30 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/) · [🎓**Universidad de Deusto** Bilbao · Spain 2014–2019 · 17 papers](https://ror.org/00ne6sr39) · [🔬**Tecnalia** Donostia / San Sebastian · Spain 2011–2013 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02fv8hj62) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper Gorka Azkune's papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ontalvilla-2026-multimodal-llms-do-not-compose/) · [**2024** 1 paper Gorka Azkune's papers of 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/etxaniz-2024-do-multilingual-language-models-think/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Do Multilingual Language Models Think Better in English?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/etxaniz-2024-do-multilingual-language-models-think/)** *(2024 · 98 citations)* Translate-test (machine-translating non-English inputs into English before querying a model) often helps multilingual language models. 2. **[Multimodal LLMs Do Not Compose Skills Optimally across Modalities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ontalvilla-2026-multimodal-llms-do-not-compose/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether multimodal LLMs can chain a visual ability with a textual one to solve tasks they were never directly trained on. The authors design three image-to-text tasks. Each can be solved with one visual step followed by one textual step: ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aitor Soroa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-soroa/) - [Julen Etxaniz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julen-etxaniz/) - [Mikel Artetxe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mikel-artetxe/) - [Oier Lopez de Lacalle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oier-lopez-de-lacalle/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 73 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gorka-azkune/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026