--- title: "Howard Johnson — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Howard Johnson: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2006–2007), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-johnson/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-johnson/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Howard Johnson # Howard Johnson Howard Johnson has 2 papers in our library, in 2006–2007, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [George Foster](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-foster/), [Roland Kuhn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roland-kuhn/). 2 papers in our library · 2006–2007 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5063990252) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5063990252) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5063990252) · [511 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5063990252&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-johnson/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 170 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-johnson/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3454](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/35/#star-3454) 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=Howard+Johnson) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Howard+Johnson) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Howard+Johnson) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Howard+Johnson) ## Affiliations [🏛️**National Research Council Canada** Ottawa · Canada 2005–2010 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-research-council-canada/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2007** 1 paper Howard Johnson's papers of 2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2007-improving-translation-quality-discarding-most/) · [**2006** 1 paper Howard Johnson's papers of 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/foster-2006-phrasetable-smoothing-statistical-machine-translation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2007-improving-translation-quality-discarding-most/)** *(2007 · 300 citations)* Phrase-based statistical machine translation systems extract huge phrasetables from word-aligned parallel corpora. Many of the entries look wrong or are never used, yet crude size reductions usually cost BLEU. Johnson, Martin, Foster and Kuhn (NRC Canada) propose filtering each phrase pair with a significance test. 2. **[Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/foster-2006-phrasetable-smoothing-statistical-machine-translation/)** *(2006 · 174 citations)* Phrase-based SMT systems usually estimate phrase translation probabilities with plain relative frequencies (RF). ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [George Foster](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-foster/) ×2 - [Roland Kuhn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roland-kuhn/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2007/), [EMNLP 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2006/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 170 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-johnson/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026