--- title: "James Mayfield — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2013–2022), h-index 28 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-mayfield/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-mayfield/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / James Mayfield # James Mayfield James Mayfield has 2 papers in our library, in 2013–2022, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Dawn Lawrie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawn-lawrie/), [Eugene Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-yang/), [Jonathan Weese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-weese/). 2 papers in our library · 2013–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5036270568) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3866-3013) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130935600) · [**h-index 28**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5036270568) · [158 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5036270568) · [2,905 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5036270568&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-mayfield/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 107 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-mayfield/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4654](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/47/#star-4654) 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=James+Mayfield) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=James+Mayfield) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=James+Mayfield) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=James+Mayfield) ## Affiliations [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 1996–2026 · 84 papersEmployment since 1996 · Principal Computer Scientist, Applied Physics Laboratory and Human Language Technology Center of Excellence*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🔬**Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory** North Laurel · United States 1997–2024 · 28 papers](https://ror.org/029pp9z10) · [🎓**University of Maryland, Baltimore County** Baltimore · United States 1991–2002 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/) · [🎓**University of Glasgow** Glasgow · United Kingdom 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-glasgow/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2012–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2000 · 1 paperEducation until 1987 · PhD, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) 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 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/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 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/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Semantic similarity · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/semantic-similarity/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-mayfield/year/2022/) ### 2010s [**2013** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-mayfield/year/2013/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[UMBC_EBIQUITY-CORE: Semantic Textual Similarity Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/han-2013-umbc-ebiquity-core-semantic-textual/)** *(2013 · 398 citations)* The paper describes three systems submitted by the UMBC/JHU team to the *SEM 2013 Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) shared task. 2. **[Transfer Learning Approaches for Building Cross-Language Dense Retrieval Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nair-2022-transfer-learning-approaches-building/)** *(2022 · 51 citations)* Neural rankers trained on large English collections such as MS MARCO have far surpassed lexical models like BM25 in monolingual search. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dawn Lawrie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawn-lawrie/) - [Eugene Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-yang/) - [Jonathan Weese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-weese/) - [Kenton Murray](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenton-murray/) - [Kevin Duh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-duh/) - [Paul McNamee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-mcnamee/) - [Suraj Nair](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/suraj-nair/) - [Tim Finin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-finin/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/joint-conference-on-lexical-and-computational-semantics-sem-proceedings-of-the-2/): [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/joint-conference-on-lexical-and-computational-semantics-sem-proceedings-of-the-2/2013/) - [Lecture notes in computer science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/): [Lecture notes in computer science 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 107 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [14 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-mayfield/cited-by/). Updated 4 November 2026