--- title: "Julian Salazar — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Julian Salazar: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2020), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-salazar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-salazar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Julian Salazar # Julian Salazar Julian Salazar has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2020, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Toan Q. Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/toan-q-nguyen/), [Davis Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/davis-liang/), [Katrin Kirchhoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katrin-kirchhoff/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5037283647) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0943-7594) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90260706) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5037283647) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037283647) · [603 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037283647&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-salazar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 536 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-salazar/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3692](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/37/#star-3692) 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=Julian+Salazar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Julian+Salazar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Julian+Salazar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Julian+Salazar) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2019–2022 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Universidad Politécnica de Madrid** Madrid · Spain 2009 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03n6nwv02) 🏛️**Amazon Web Services** [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) Employment 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 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.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-salazar/year/2020/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-salazar/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Masked Language Model Scoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salazar-2020-masked-language-model-scoring/)** *(2020 · 447 citations)* Masked language models such as BERT are usually finetuned before use, and they lack an obvious way to assign probabilities to whole sentences. 2. **[Transformers without Tears: Improving the Normalization of Self-Attention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nguyen-2019-transformers-tears-improving-normalization-self/)** *(2019 · 189 citations)* The paper examines how normalization choices affect Transformer training for neural machine translation, especially when parallel data is scarce. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Toan Q. Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/toan-q-nguyen/) ×2 - [Davis Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/davis-liang/) - [Katrin Kirchhoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katrin-kirchhoff/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) - [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 536 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [152 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-salazar/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026