--- title: "Jay Ponte — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Jay Ponte, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1998–2010), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-ponte/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-ponte/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jay Ponte # Jay Ponte Jay Ponte has 2 papers in our library, in 1998–2010, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Ashok Popat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashok-popat/), [Jakob Uszkoreit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakob-uszkoreit/). 2 papers in our library · 1998–2010 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5080625665) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5080625665) · [29 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5080625665) · [5,157 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5080625665&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-ponte/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 237 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-ponte/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1257](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/13/#star-1257) 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=Jay+Ponte) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jay+Ponte) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jay+Ponte) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jay+Ponte) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 1997–2017 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🏢**Mitre** Bedford · United States 2001–2004 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/mitre/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2008–2011 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) 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. ## 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/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2010** 1 paper Jay Ponte's papers of 2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uszkoreit-2010-large-scale-parallel-document-mining/) ### 1990s [**1998** 1 paper Jay Ponte's papers of 1998](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ponte-1998-language-modeling-approach-information/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ponte-1998-language-modeling-approach-information/)** *(1998 · 1,869 citations)* Ponte and Croft ask whether document ranking can rest on an explicit probabilistic model instead of hand-tuned term-weighting formulas. 2. **[Large Scale Parallel Document Mining for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uszkoreit-2010-large-scale-parallel-document-mining/)** *(2010 · 217 citations)* Statistical machine translation needs parallel text, which is scarce compared with monolingual web data. Earlier mining methods depended on metadata such as publication dates or document structure, and that information is unreliable on the open Web. The authors treat parallel document discovery as cross-language… ## 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. **[A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ponte-1998-language-modeling-approach-information/) [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/)**Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft*1998 · 1,869 citations* 2. **[Large Scale Parallel Document Mining for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uszkoreit-2010-large-scale-parallel-document-mining/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Jakob Uszkoreit, Jay Ponte, Ashok Popat, et al.*2010 · 217 citations* 3. **[A Systematic Comparison of Phrase-Based, Hierarchical and Syntax-Augmented Statistical MT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C08-1144/) Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008) · no summary yet**Andreas Zollmann et al.*2008 · 133 citations* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ashok Popat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashok-popat/) - [Jakob Uszkoreit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakob-uszkoreit/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/) ×2: [COLING 2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2010/) - [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/): [SIGIR 1998](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/1998/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 237 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jay-ponte/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026