--- title: "John Cocke — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "John Cocke, IBM: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1988–1990), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-cocke/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-cocke/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / John Cocke # John Cocke John Cocke has 2 papers in our library, in 1988–1990, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [French](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/); often with [Paul S. Roossin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-s-roossin/), [John Lafferty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-lafferty/), [Peter F. Brown](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-f-brown/). 2 papers in our library · 1988–1990 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5076159111) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5076159111) · [79 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076159111) · [9,782 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076159111&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-cocke/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 485 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-cocke/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1274](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/13/#star-1274) 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=John+Cocke) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=John+Cocke) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=John+Cocke) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=John+Cocke) ## Affiliations [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 1959–2023 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 1964–2004 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) 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 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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [French · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Natural language processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/natural-language-processing/) ## Works by year ### 1990s [**1990** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-cocke/year/1990/) ### 1980s [**1988** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-cocke/year/1988/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1990-statistical-approach-machine-translation/)** *(1990 · 2,074 citations)* The authors from IBM return to an old idea of Warren Weaver: machine translation can be done statistically rather than with hand-written rules. 2. **[A Statistical Approach to Language Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1988-statistical-approach-language-translation/)** *(1988 · 341 citations)* The paper proposes treating French-to-English machine translation as a statistical learning problem rather than one solved by hand-written grammars or an interlingua. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Paul S. Roossin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-s-roossin/) ×2 - [John Lafferty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-lafferty/) - [Peter F. Brown](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-f-brown/) - [Robert L. Mercer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-l-mercer/) - [Stephen A. Della Pietra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-a-della-pietra/) - [Vincent J. Della Pietra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vincent-j-della-pietra/) ## 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 1990](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1990/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 1988](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/1988/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 485 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [65 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-cocke/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026