--- title: "Jianhuang Lai — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Jianhuang Lai, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2019), h-index 64 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianhuang-lai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianhuang-lai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jianhuang Lai # Jianhuang Lai Jianhuang Lai has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2019, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Lijun Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lijun-wu/), [Tao Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-qin/), [Tie-Yan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tie-yan-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5034685928) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3883-2024) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130961816) · [**h-index 64**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5034685928) · [522 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034685928) · [15,759 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034685928&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianhuang-lai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 142 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianhuang-lai/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4031](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4031) 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=Jianhuang+Lai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jianhuang+Lai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jianhuang+Lai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jianhuang+Lai) ## Affiliations [🎓**Sun Yat-sen University** Guangzhou · China 2004–2026 · 468 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/) · [🔬**Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology** Guangzhou · China 2006–2026 · 153 papers*current*](https://ror.org/03xyaz886) · [🏛️**Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China** Beijing · China 2017–2026 · 28 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01mv9t934) · [🎓**Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University** Guangzhou · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/02pcb5m77) · [🔬**National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou** Guangzhou · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/042999n30) · [🔬**Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province** Guangzhou · China 2008–2022 · 18 papers](https://ror.org/00swtqp09) · [🔬**SYSU-CMU International Joint Research Institute** Shunde · China 2014–2015 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/02w30ae27) · [🔬**Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Computational Science** Guangzhou · China 2016–2023 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/03rtxse59) · [🎓**Guangzhou Xinhua University** Guangzhou 2021–2023 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/0068n3903) · [🎓**Hong Kong Baptist University** Hong Kong · Hong Kong 2002–2004 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/0145fw131) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Jianhuang Lai's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2019-exploiting-monolingual-data-scale-neural/) · [**2018** 1 paper Jianhuang Lai's papers of 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2018-study-reinforcement-learning-neural-machine/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Study of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2018-study-reinforcement-learning-neural-machine/)** *(2018 · 234 citations)* Reinforcement learning can align NMT training with sequence-level metrics such as BLEU. In practice it is unstable, and most earlier evidence came from shallow RNN models. Lijun Wu and colleagues ran a systematic study of RL for deep Transformer models on large datasets: WMT14 English-German, WMT17 English-Chinese… 2. **[Exploiting Monolingual Data at Scale for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2019-exploiting-monolingual-data-scale-neural/)** *(2019 · 102 citations)* Back translation (BT) is a standard way to use target-language monolingual text in neural machine translation. ## 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 Study of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2018-study-reinforcement-learning-neural-machine/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Lijun Wu, Fei Tian, Tao Qin, et al.*2018 · 234 citations* 2. **[Exploiting Monolingual Data at Scale for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2019-exploiting-monolingual-data-scale-neural/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Lijun Wu, Yiren Wang, Yingce Xia, et al.*2019 · 102 citations* 3. **[Beyond Error Propagation in Neural Machine Translation: Characteristics of Language Also Matter ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1396/) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Lijun Wu et al.*2018 · 71 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Lijun Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lijun-wu/) ×2 - [Tao Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-qin/) ×2 - [Tie-Yan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tie-yan-liu/) ×2 - [Fei Tian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-tian/) - [Yingce Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingce-xia/) - [Yiren Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiren-wang/) ## 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/) ×3: [EMNLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2019/), [EMNLP 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 142 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianhuang-lai/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026