--- title: "Julen Etxaniz — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Julen Etxaniz, University of the Basque Country: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julen-etxaniz/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julen-etxaniz/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Julen Etxaniz # Julen Etxaniz Julen Etxaniz has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Oier Lopez de Lacalle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oier-lopez-de-lacalle/), [Aitor Soroa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-soroa/), [Eneko Agirre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eneko-agirre/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5016315389) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2099-7766) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5016315389) · [28 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016315389) · [249 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016315389&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julen-etxaniz/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 237 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julen-etxaniz/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4008) 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=Julen+Etxaniz) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Julen+Etxaniz) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Julen+Etxaniz) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Julen+Etxaniz) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of the Basque Country** Leioa · Spain 2021–2026 · 23 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/) · [🎓**Universidade de Santiago de Compostela** Santiago de Compostela · Spain 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-de-santiago-de-compostela/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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/) · [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 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper Julen Etxaniz's papers of 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/etxaniz-2024-do-multilingual-language-models-think/) · [**2023** 1 paper Julen Etxaniz's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sainz-2023-nlp-evaluation-trouble-need-measure/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[NLP Evaluation in trouble: On the Need to Measure LLM Data Contamination for each Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sainz-2023-nlp-evaluation-trouble-need-measure/)** *(2023 · 245 citations)* This position paper argues that benchmark-based NLP evaluation is unreliable when large language models have already seen the test data. 2. **[Do Multilingual Language Models Think Better in English?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/etxaniz-2024-do-multilingual-language-models-think/)** *(2024 · 98 citations)* Translate-test (machine-translating non-English inputs into English before querying a model) often helps multilingual language models. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Oier Lopez de Lacalle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oier-lopez-de-lacalle/) ×2 - [Aitor Soroa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-soroa/) - [Eneko Agirre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eneko-agirre/) - [Gorka Azkune](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gorka-azkune/) - [Iker García-Ferrero](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iker-garcia-ferrero/) - [Mikel Artetxe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mikel-artetxe/) - [Oscar Sainz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oscar-sainz/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 237 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julen-etxaniz/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026