--- title: "Kishore Papineni · Google — author profile and papers" description: "Kishore Papineni, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2002–2003), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kishore-papineni/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kishore-papineni/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kishore Papineni # Kishore Papineni Kishore Papineni has 2 papers in our library, in 2002–2003, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Salim Roukos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salim-roukos/), [Hany Hassan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hany-hassan/), [Ossama Emam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ossama-emam/). 2 papers in our library · 2002–2003 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5078910140) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5078910140) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078910140) · [22,190 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078910140&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kishore-papineni/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 11,128 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kishore-papineni/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #56](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/#star-56) 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=Kishore+Papineni) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kishore+Papineni) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kishore+Papineni) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kishore+Papineni) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2013–2024 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 1999–2006 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2001–2006 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🏢**Yahoo** Sunnyvale · United States 2008–2011 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo/) 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 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) 💡 Concepts 3 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[BLEU score · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/bleu/) · [chrF · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/chrf/) · [Natural language processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/natural-language-processing/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2003** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kishore-papineni/year/2003/) · [**2002** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kishore-papineni/year/2002/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papineni-2002-bleu-method-automatic-evaluation-machine/)** *(2002 · 32,275 citations)* The paper proposes BLEU, a cheap automatic score for MT that is meant to stand in for human judges during development. 2. **[Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2003-language-model-based-arabic-word/)** *(2003 · 181 citations)* The paper tackles splitting Arabic words into their meaningful pieces. Arabic packs prepositions, articles, pronouns and agreement markers into a single orthographic word. The authors model every word as zero or more prefixes, one stem, and zero or more suffixes. A trigram language model over morphemes then picks the… ## All works 4 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. [**Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation**Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, et al.*Machine translation · 32,275 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papineni-2002-bleu-method-automatic-evaluation-machine/) 2. **[Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2003-language-model-based-arabic-word/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Young-Suk Lee, Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, et al.*2003 · 181 citations* 3. **[Text Segmentation by Cross Segment Attention ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.380/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Michal Lukasik et al.*2020 · 113 citations* 4. **[Machine Translation Evaluation: N-grams to the Rescue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L02-1347/) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02) · no summary yet**Papineni, Kishore*2002 · 7 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Salim Roukos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salim-roukos/) ×2 - [Hany Hassan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hany-hassan/) - [Ossama Emam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ossama-emam/) - [Young-Suk Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/young-suk-lee/) ## 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 2003](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2003/), [ACL 2002](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2002/) - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 11,128 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1,221 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kishore-papineni/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026