--- title: "Ke Tran · University of Amsterdam — author profile and papers" description: "Ke Tran, University of Amsterdam: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-tran/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-tran/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ke Tran # Ke Tran Ke Tran has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Bill Byrne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-byrne/), [Dawei Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawei-zhu/), [Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-f-r-ribeiro/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5108264882) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5108264882) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108264882) · [473 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108264882&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-tran/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 170 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-tran/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7727](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7727) 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=Ke+Tran) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ke+Tran) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ke+Tran) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ke+Tran) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2014–2024 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🏢**Amazon** Berlin · Germany 2020–2022 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon-germany/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2020–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions 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 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 [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-tran/year/2026/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-tran/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[From English To Foreign Languages: Transferring Pre-trained Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2020-english-foreign-languages-transferring-pre/)** *(2020 · 53 citations)* The paper asks whether an English pretrained encoder can be reused for other languages on a small compute budget, instead of training a multilingual model from scratch. 2. **[What Does LLM Refinement Actually Improve? A Systematic Study on Document-Level Literary Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2026-what-does-llm-refinement-actually/)** *(2026)* Iterative self-refinement means an LLM repeatedly revises its own draft translation. Earlier studies mostly applied it to sentences or paragraphs and reported only overall quality, so its behaviour on full documents was poorly understood. The authors ran a controlled study on WMT24-Literary across nine LLMs (Qwen2.5… ## All works 7 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. **[The Importance of Being Recurrent for Modeling Hierarchical Structure ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03585) arXiv:1803.03585 · no summary yet**Ke Tran, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz*2018 · 228 citations* 2. **[Recurrent Memory Networks for Language Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1036/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Ke Tran, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz*2016 · 107 citations* 3. **[Unsupervised Neural Hidden Markov Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-5907/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP · no summary yet**Ke M. Tran et al.*2016 · 81 citations* 4. [**From English To Foreign Languages: Transferring Pre-trained Language Models arXiv:2002.07306**Ke Tran*2020 · 53 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2020-english-foreign-languages-transferring-pre/) 5. **[Inducing Grammars with and for Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-2704/) Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation · no summary yet**Yonatan Bisk, Ke Tran*2018 · 25 citations* 6. **[The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.336/) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**David Stap et al.*2024 · 22 citations* 7. **[What Does LLM Refinement Actually Improve? A Systematic Study on Document-Level Literary Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2026-what-does-llm-refinement-actually/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Shaomu Tan, Dawei Zhu, Ke Tran, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bill Byrne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-byrne/) - [Dawei Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawei-zhu/) - [Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-f-r-ribeiro/) - [Michael Denkowski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-denkowski/) - [Shaomu Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaomu-tan/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation - Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 170 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [28 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-tran/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026