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# Kashif Shah

Kashif Shah has 3 papers in our library, in 2013–2021, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Ahmet Aker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmet-aker/), [José G. C. de Souza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jose-g-c-de-souza/), [Lucia Specia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucia-specia/).

3 papers in our library · 2013–2021

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5113272498) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9646-6953) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5113272498) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113272498) · [600 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113272498&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kashif-shah/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 247 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kashif-shah/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3696](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/37/#star-3696)

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=Kashif+Shah) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kashif+Shah) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kashif+Shah) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kashif+Shah)

## Affiliations

[🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2021–2022 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**University of Illinois System** Urbana · United States 2022 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-system/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2022 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 2012–2016 · 20 papersEmployment since 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🎓**Le Mans Université** Le Mans · France 2010–2016 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/le-mans-universite/) · [🏢**eBay** San Jose · United States 2018 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05cnabr44)

🏛️**University of Maine** Le Mans · [France](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/france/) 2008–2012Education 2008–2012 · PhD, Department of Computer Science

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

## Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2021** 1 paper Quantifying Social Biases in NLP: A Generalization and Empirical Comparison of Extrinsic Fairness Metrics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/czarnowska-2021-quantifying-social-biases-nlp-generalization/)

### 2010s

[**2016** 1 paper Creation of comparable corpora for English-Urdu, Arabic, Persian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abouammoh-2016-creation-comparable-corpora-english-urdu/) · [**2013** 1 paper QuEst - A translation quality estimation framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2013-quest-translation-quality-estimation-framework/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[QuEst - A translation quality estimation framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2013-quest-translation-quality-estimation-framework/)** *(2013 · 281 citations)* The paper presents QuEst, an open-source toolkit for machine translation quality estimation (QE), meaning predicting how good a translated segment is when no human reference is available.
2. **[Quantifying Social Biases in NLP: A Generalization and Empirical Comparison of Extrinsic Fairness Metrics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/czarnowska-2021-quantifying-social-biases-nlp-generalization/)** *(2021 · 131 citations)* Many metrics have been proposed to measure social bias in NLP models, but it has been unclear how they relate and whether they capture the same thing.
3. **[Creation of comparable corpora for English-Urdu, Arabic, Persian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abouammoh-2016-creation-comparable-corpora-english-urdu/)** *(2016)* Statistical MT needs parallel text, which is scarce for many language pairs and domains. Most earlier work on comparable corpora targeted European languages, so this paper builds news-based comparable corpora pairing English with Arabic, Persian and Urdu. Articles were collected from hand-picked RSS feeds every 15…

## All works

13 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[QuEst - A translation quality estimation framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2013-quest-translation-quality-estimation-framework/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Lucia Specia, Kashif Shah, Jose G.C. de Souza, et al.*2013 · 281 citations*
2. **[Quantifying Social Biases in NLP: A Generalization and Empirical Comparison of Extrinsic Fairness Metrics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/czarnowska-2021-quantifying-social-biases-nlp-generalization/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Paula Czarnowska, Yogarshi Vyas, Kashif Shah*2021 · 131 citations*
3. **[An Investigation on the Effectiveness of Features for Translation Quality Estimation](https://aclanthology.org/2013.mtsummit-papers.21/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV: Papers · original ↗ · no summary yet**Kashif Shah, Trevor Conn, Lucia Specia*2013 · 67 citations*
4. **[SHEF-Lite: When Less is More for Translation Quality Estimation](https://aclanthology.org/W13-2241/) Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · original ↗ · no summary yet**Daniel Beck et al.*2013 · 30 citations*
5. **[SHEF-NN: Translation Quality Estimation with Neural Networks](https://aclanthology.org/W15-3041/) Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · original ↗ · no summary yet**Kashif Shah et al.*2015 · 27 citations*
6. **[Quality estimation for translation selection](https://aclanthology.org/2014.eamt-1.22/) Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation · original ↗ · no summary yet**Kahif Shah, Lucia Specia*2014 · 21 citations*
7. **[Investigating Continuous Space Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Estimation](https://aclanthology.org/D15-1125/) Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · original ↗ · no summary yet**Kashif Shah et al.*2015 · 16 citations*
8. **[SHEF-Lite 2.0: Sparse Multi-task Gaussian Processes for Translation Quality Estimation](https://aclanthology.org/W14-3338/) Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · original ↗ · no summary yet**Daniel Beck, Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia*2014 · 16 citations*
9. **[Large-scale Multitask Learning for Machine Translation Quality Estimation](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1069/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · original ↗ · no summary yet**Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia*2016 · 13 citations*
10. **[An efficient and user-friendly tool for machine translation quality estimation](https://aclanthology.org/L14-1726/) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Kashif Shah, Marco Turchi, Lucia Specia*2014 · 11 citations*
11. **[Predicting human translation quality](https://aclanthology.org/2014.amta-researchers.22/) Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track · original ↗ · no summary yet**Lucia Specia, Kashif Shah*2014 · 5 citations*
12. **[Creation of comparable corpora for English-Urdu, Arabic, Persian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abouammoh-2016-creation-comparable-corpora-english-urdu/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Murad Abouammoh, Kashif Shah, Ahmet Aker*2016*
13. **[QuEst: A framework for translation quality estimation](https://aclanthology.org/2014.amta-wptp.12/) Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas · original ↗ · no summary yet**Lucia Specia, Kashif Shah*2014*

## Co-authors here

5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Ahmet Aker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmet-aker/)
- [José G. C. de Souza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jose-g-c-de-souza/)
- [Lucia Specia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucia-specia/)
- [Trevor Cohn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/trevor-cohn/)
- [Yogarshi Vyas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yogarshi-vyas/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation ×3
- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2013/)
- [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2016/)
- [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/)
- Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV: Papers
- Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
- Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track
- Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
- Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 247 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/kashif-shah/cited-by/).

Updated 24 October 2026