--- title: "Kurt Abela — author profile and papers" description: "Kurt Abela: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kurt Abela # Kurt Abela 2 papers on this site · 2023–2026 Kurt Abela has 2 papers on this site, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Claudia Borg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/), [Ahnaf Mozib Samin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahnaf-mozib-samin/), [Andrea DeMarco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-demarco/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5092596153) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5092596153) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092596153) · [24 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092596153&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/#papers) · [22 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/cited-by/) · 3 more works in our library 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=Kurt+Abela) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kurt+Abela) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kurt+Abela) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kurt+Abela) ## Affiliations - [University of Malta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-malta/) · Msida, Malta —2012–2024 on 3 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Machine translation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Speech & spoken language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Low-resource languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Semitic languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abela-2026-balancing-fluency-adherence-hybrid-fallback/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/williams-2023-um-dfki-maltese-speech-translation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[UM-DFKI Maltese Speech Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/williams-2023-um-dfki-maltese-speech-translation/)** *(2023 · 11 citations)* The paper describes the University of Malta and DFKI submission to the first IWSLT Maltese→English speech translation task, which is a low-resource setting. 2. **[Balancing Fluency and Adherence: Hybrid Fallback Term Injection in Low-Resource Terminology Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abela-2026-balancing-fluency-adherence-hybrid-fallback/)** *(2026)* The paper asks how to make machine translation use required domain terminology when the target language has little data and rich morphology, and dictionaries are available but in-domain parallel text is scarce. ## Also in our library 3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Claudia Borg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/) ×2 - [Ahnaf Mozib Samin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahnaf-mozib-samin/) - [Andrea DeMarco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-demarco/) - [Lonneke van der Plas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/) - [Marc Tanti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-tanti/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 22 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/cited-by/).