--- title: "Hugo Zaragoza — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Hugo Zaragoza, Sapienza University of Rome: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2008–2011), h-index 29 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-zaragoza/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-zaragoza/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hugo Zaragoza # Hugo Zaragoza Hugo Zaragoza has 2 papers in our library, in 2008–2011, most of them on [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Massimiliano Ciaramita](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimiliano-ciaramita/), [Giuseppe Attardi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-attardi/), [Mihai Surdeanu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mihai-surdeanu/). 2 papers in our library · 2008–2011 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5086495684) · [**h-index 29**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5086495684) · [129 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086495684) · [6,606 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086495684&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-zaragoza/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 41 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-zaragoza/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6010) 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=Hugo+Zaragoza) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hugo+Zaragoza) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hugo+Zaragoza) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hugo+Zaragoza) ## Affiliations [🎓**Sapienza University of Rome** Rome · Italy 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sapienza-university-of-rome/) · [🏢**Yahoo** Sunnyvale · United States 2007–2011 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo/) · [🏢**Microsoft Research** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2002–2005 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-united-kingdom/) · [🏢**Yahoo** Madrid · Spain 2008–2010 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/03gq8sg42) · [🔬**LIP6** Paris · France 1997–2001 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/lip6/) · [🏢**Yahoo** London · United Kingdom 2008–2016 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo-united-kingdom/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2001–2004 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie** Paris · France 1997–1999 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-pierre-et-marie-curie/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2020–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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 · 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2011** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-zaragoza/year/2011/) ### 2000s [**2008** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-zaragoza/year/2008/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Learning to Rank Answers to Non-Factoid Questions from Web Collections](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/surdeanu-2011-learning-rank-answers-non-factoid/)** *(2011 · 193 citations)* Most question answering research targets factoid questions with short entity-like answers. This paper instead tackles ranking answers to non-factoid "How to" (manner) questions, where annotated training data is scarce. The authors argue that community QA sites can serve as free supervision. Yahoo! Answers threads… 2. **[Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/atserias-2008-semantically-annotated-snapshot-english-wikipedia/)** *(2008 · 52 citations)* Wikipedia had become a common resource for NLP and IR research. But running a full linguistic pipeline over the whole encyclopedia took computing power many groups lacked. Teams also prepared different dumps in different ways, so their results were hard to compare. The authors address this by releasing SW1, a single… ## All works 3 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. **[Learning to Rank Answers to Non-Factoid Questions from Web Collections](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/surdeanu-2011-learning-rank-answers-non-factoid/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Mihai Surdeanu, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Hugo Zaragoza*2011 · 193 citations* 2. **[Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/atserias-2008-semantically-annotated-snapshot-english-wikipedia/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Jordi Atserias, Hugo Zaragoza, Massimiliano Ciaramita, et al.*2008 · 52 citations* 3. **[Span-Level Machine Translation Meta-Evaluation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19921) arXiv:2603.19921 · no summary yet**Stefano Perrella, Eric Morales Agostinho, Hugo Zaragoza*2026* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Massimiliano Ciaramita](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimiliano-ciaramita/) ×2 - [Giuseppe Attardi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-attardi/) - [Mihai Surdeanu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mihai-surdeanu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 2011](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2011/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2008/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 41 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-zaragoza/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026