--- title: "Kurt Micallef — author profile and papers" description: "Kurt Micallef: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-micallef/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-micallef/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kurt Micallef # Kurt Micallef Kurt Micallef has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Claudia Borg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/), [Aiden Williams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aiden-williams/), [Kurt Abela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051863994) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051863994) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051863994) · [20 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051863994&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-micallef/#papers) · [🔗 60 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-micallef/cited-by/) · [9 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4752](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/48/#star-4752) 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+Micallef) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kurt+Micallef) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kurt+Micallef) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kurt+Micallef) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Malta** Msida · Malta 2022–2025 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-malta/) · [🎓**New York University Abu Dhabi** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university-abu-dhabi/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Semitic languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Speech & spoken language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-micallef/year/2024/) · [**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. **[UM IWSLT 2024 Low-Resource Speech Translation: Combining Maltese and North Levantine Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nabhani-2024-um-iwslt-2024-low-resource/)** *(2024 · 2 citations)* The paper describes the University of Malta's submission to the IWSLT 2024 low-resource track. The task was speech translation into English from Maltese and from North Levantine Arabic (APC), two Semitic languages with related histories. The team used an unconstrained cascade. For speech recognition, a Wav2Vec 2.0… 3. **[Tokenisation in Machine Translation Does Matter: The impact of different tokenisation approaches for Maltese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abela-2024-tokenisation-machine-translation-does-matter/)** *(2024 · 1 citation)* The paper asks how much tokenisation choices affect English–Maltese machine translation. Maltese is a morphologically rich language with Semitic roots, and generic English-oriented tools often handle its hyphenated articles badly. The authors found that the Maltese side of OPUS-100 contains irregular, non-systematic… ## Also in our library 9 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Claudia Borg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/) ×3 - [Aiden Williams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aiden-williams/) ×2 - [Kurt Abela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/) ×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/) - [Melanie Galea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melanie-galea/) - [Sara Nabhani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-nabhani/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 60 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-micallef/cited-by/).