--- title: "Iacer Calixto — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Iacer Calixto, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2020), h-index 15 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iacer-calixto/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iacer-calixto/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Iacer Calixto # Iacer Calixto Iacer Calixto has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2020, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Clara Vania](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-vania/), [Emiel Krahmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emiel-krahmer/), [Haokun Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haokun-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5086777036) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6244-7906) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91687096) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5086777036) · [76 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086777036) · [1,142 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086777036&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iacer-calixto/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 223 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iacer-calixto/cited-by/) · [13 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/51/#star-5012) 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=Iacer+Calixto) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Iacer+Calixto) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Iacer+Calixto) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Iacer+Calixto) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2019–2026 · 34 papersEmployment since 2022 · Assistant professor, Faculty of Medicine*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🏥**Amsterdam University Medical Centers** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2022–2026 · 24 papers*current*](https://ror.org/05grdyy37) · [🔬**Amsterdam Public Health** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2022–2026 · 19 papers*current*](https://ror.org/0258apj61) · [🏥**Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2022–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://ror.org/03t4gr691) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2020–2026 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Dublin City University** Dublin · Ireland 2014–2017 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dublin-city-university/) 🏛️**Amsterdam UMC Locatie AMC Divisie 10** Amsterdam · [Netherlands](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/netherlands/) 2022Employment since 2022 · Assistant professor, Department of Medical Informatics From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 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 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[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/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper English Intermediate-Task Training Improves Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Too](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phang-2020-english-intermediate-task-training-improves/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper Linguistic realisation as machine translation: Comparing different MT models for AMR-to-text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ferreira-2017-linguistic-realisation-as-machine-translation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[English Intermediate-Task Training Improves Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Too](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phang-2020-english-intermediate-task-training-improves/)** *(2020 · 70 citations)* Multilingual pretrained encoders are typically fine-tuned on English task data and then applied to other languages without target-language labels. 2. **[Linguistic realisation as machine translation: Comparing different MT models for AMR-to-text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ferreira-2017-linguistic-realisation-as-machine-translation/)** *(2017 · 47 citations)* The paper frames AMR-to-text as translation and compares phrase-based and neural MT on the same data. Three preprocessing steps are studied, and every combination is tried (2^3 = 8 strategies): delexicalisation (constants replaced by tags), compression (a conditional random field decides which nodes and edges to… ## All works 15 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. **[Incorporating Global Visual Features into Attention-Based Neural Machine Translation](https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06521) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:1701.06521**Iacer Calixto, Qun Liu, Nick Campbell*2017 · 216 citations* 2. **[Doubly-Attentive Decoder for Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation](https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01287) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:1702.01287**Iacer Calixto, Qun Liu, Nick Campbell*2017 · 79 citations* 3. **[English Intermediate-Task Training Improves Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Too](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phang-2020-english-intermediate-task-training-improves/)**Jason Phang, Iacer Calixto, Phu Mon Htut, et al.*[Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/) · 70 citations* 4. [**Linguistic realisation as machine translation: Comparing different MT models for AMR-to-text generation**Thiago Castro Ferreira, Iacer Calixto, Sander Wubben, et al.*Machine translation · 47 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ferreira-2017-linguistic-realisation-as-machine-translation/) 5. **[Automatic Text Simplification for Spanish: Comparative Evaluation of Various Simplification Strategies](https://aclanthology.org/R15-1080/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language…**Sanja Štajner, Iacer Calixto, Horacio Saggion*2015 · 42 citations* 6. **[Human Evaluation of Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation: A Case-Study on E-Commerce Listing Titles](https://aclanthology.org/W17-2004/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Vision and Language**Iacer Calixto et al.*2017 · 10 citations* 7. **[Soft-prompt tuning to predict lung cancer using primary care free-text Dutch medical notes](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15846) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:2303.15846**Auke Elfrink et al.*2023 · 7 citations* 8. **[Target-Centric Features for Translation Quality Estimation](https://aclanthology.org/W14-3341/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation**Chris Hokamp et al.*2014 · 6 citations* 9. **[Mind the Gap: Benchmarking LLM Uncertainty and Calibration with Specialty-Aware Clinical QA and Reasoning-Based Behavioural Features](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.106/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association…**Alberto Testoni, Iacer Calixto*2026 · 2 citations* 10. **[Differentially Private De-identification of Dutch Clinical Notes: A Comparative Evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.clinicalnlp-1.13/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing…**Michele Miranda et al.*2026* 11. **[DeVisE: Towards the Behavioral Testing of Medical Large Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.338/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026**Camila Zurdo Tagliabue et al.*2026* 12. **[Calibrated? Not for Everyone: How Sexual Orientation and Religious Markers Distort LLM Accuracy and Confidence in Medical QA](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-short.36/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational…**Alberto Testoni, Iacer Calixto*2026* 13. **[What Does Infect Mean to Cardio? Investigating the Role of Clinical Specialty Data in Medical LLMs](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.390/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association…**Xinlan Yan et al.*2026* 14. **[Detection of Adverse Drug Events in Dutch clinical free text documents using Transformer Models: benchmark study](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19396) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:2507.19396**Rachel M. Murphy et al.*2025* 15. **[Interpretable phenotyping of Heart Failure patients with Dutch discharge letters](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24619) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:2505.24619**Vittorio Torri et al.*2025* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Clara Vania](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-vania/) - [Emiel Krahmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emiel-krahmer/) - [Haokun Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haokun-liu/) - [Jason Phang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-phang/) - [Katharina Kann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-kann/) - [Phu Mon Htut](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phu-mon-htut/) - [Samuel R. Bowman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-r-bowman/) - [Sander Wubben](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sander-wubben/) - [Thiago Castro Ferreira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thiago-castro-ferreira/) - [Yada Pruksachatkun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-pruksachatkun/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter… ×2 - [Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/): [AACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/2020/) - [International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/): [INLG 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/inlg/2017/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics… - Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association… - Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Clinical Natural… - Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances… - Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine… - Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Vision and Language ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 223 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [19 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iacer-calixto/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026