--- title: "Hale Sirin · Johns Hopkins University — author profile and papers" description: "Hale Sirin, Johns Hopkins University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hale Sirin # Hale Sirin Hale Sirin has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Hebrew & Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Andrew Caines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-caines/), [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/), [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5037536747) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8233-3011) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5037536747) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037536747) · [35 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037536747&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 13 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11170](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/112/#star-11170) 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=Hale+Sirin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hale+Sirin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hale+Sirin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hale+Sirin) ## Affiliations [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2017–2026 · 21 papersEmployment · Center for Digital Humanities*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🤝**Schmidt Sciences** New York · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/044fk6795) 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 6 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) · [Religious studies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/religious-studies/) 🧭 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/) · [Biblical Hebrew · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/biblical-hebrew/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bafna-2025-translation-barrier-hypothesis-multilingual-generation/)** *(2025 · 7 citations)* LLMs often generate poorly in mid- and low-resource languages, but the reasons are unclear. The authors argue that generation inside the model runs as an implicit two-stage process. Middle layers first work out the answer concept in a way largely independent of the target language. Final layers then render that… 2. **[Detecting Narrative Patterns in Biblical Hebrew and Greek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcgovern-2024-detecting-narrative-patterns-biblical-hebrew/)** *(2024 · 3 citations)* The authors look for recurring narrative patterns ("type-scenes", such as a man meeting a woman by a well, or a hero being tempted) as an information-retrieval task. ## All works 4 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. **[The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bafna-2025-translation-barrier-hypothesis-multilingual-generation/) [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/)**Niyati Bafna, Tianjian Li, Kenton Murray, et al.*2025 · 7 citations* 2. [**Detecting Narrative Patterns in Biblical Hebrew and Greek**Hope McGovern, Hale Sirin, Tom Lippincott, et al.*Ancient Hebrew · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcgovern-2024-detecting-narrative-patterns-biblical-hebrew/) 3. **[Dynamic embedded topic models and change-point detection for exploring literary-historical hypotheses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.latechclfl-1.22/) Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024) · no summary yet**Hale Sirin, Tom Lippincott*2024 · 2 citations* 4. **[Cultivar: A Contrastive and Locale-Oriented Translation Benchmark for Investigating Contamination and Localisation Robustness ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09766) arXiv:2608.09766 · no summary yet**Pinzhen Chen et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andrew Caines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-caines/) - [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/) - [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/) - [David Yarowsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-yarowsky/) - [Kenton Murray](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenton-murray/) - [Niyati Bafna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niyati-bafna/) - [Tianjian Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjian-li/) - [Tom Lippincott](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-lippincott/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/): [IJCNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/2025/) - [Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ml4al/): [Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ml4al/2024/) - Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 13 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026