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# Manny Rayner

Manny Rayner has 2 papers in our library, in 1991–2007, 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/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Beth Ann Hockey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beth-ann-hockey/), [Bjorn Gamback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-gamback/), [David Carter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-carter/).

2 papers in our library · 1991–2007

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5076385236) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6002-2434) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5076385236) · [286 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076385236) · [1,604 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076385236&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manny-rayner/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 60 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manny-rayner/cited-by/) · [16 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7569](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/76/#star-7569)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 2003–2022 · 65 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/) · [🔬**SRI International** Menlo Park · United States 1991–2003 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/) · [🔬**Ames Research Center** Mountain View · United States 2000–2008 · 13 papers](https://ror.org/02acart68) · [🎓**University of South Australia** Adelaide · Australia 2022–2024 · 10 papers](https://ror.org/01p93h210) · [🔬**Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science** Mountain View · United States 2000–2005 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/022qmyy53) · [🤝**Swedish Institute of Computer Science** Kista · Sweden 1988–1991 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/swedish-institute-of-computer-science/) · [🎓**Flinders University** Adelaide · Australia 2022–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01kpzv902) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1992–2002 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/)

## Works by year

### 2000s

[**2007** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manny-rayner/year/2007/)

### 1990s

[**1991** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manny-rayner/year/1991/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Translation by Quasi Logical Form Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshawi-1991-translation-quasi-logical-form-transfer/)** *(1991 · 54 citations)* The paper applies a general natural language system, the Core Language Engine, to interactive translation between English and Swedish in a car hire domain.
2. **[Adapting a Medical speech to speech translation system (MedSLT) to Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bouillon-2007-adapting-medical-speech-speech-translation/)** *(2007 · 5 citations)* The paper extends MedSLT, a grammar-based medical speech translation system for doctor–patient diagnosis dialogues, to Arabic.

## All works

18 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. [**Translation by Quasi Logical Form Transfer**Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter, Manny Rayner, et al.*Machine translation · 54 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshawi-1991-translation-quasi-logical-form-transfer/)
2. **[Evaluating Task Performance for a Unidirectional Controlled Language Medical Speech Translation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-3702/) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Medical Speech Translation · no summary yet**Nikos Chatzichrisafis et al.*2006 · 26 citations*
3. **[A Bidirectional Grammar-Based Medical Speech Translator ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W07-1806/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing · no summary yet**Pierrette Bouillon et al.*2007 · 24 citations*
4. **[Une grammaire partagée multitâche pour le traitement de la parole : application aux langues romanes A multitask shared grammar for speech processing: application to romance languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.tal-3.7/) Traitement Automatique des Langues, Volume 47, Numéro 3 : Varia [Varia] · no summary yet**Pierrette Bouillon et al.*2006 · 20 citations*
5. **[Les ellipses dans un système de traduction automatique de la parole ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2007.jeptalnrecital-poster.5/) Actes de la 14ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters · no summary yet**Pierrette Bouillon et al.*2007 · 12 citations*
6. **[Representational and architectural issues in a limited-domain medical speech translator ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2005.jeptalnrecital-long.17/) Actes de la 12ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs · no summary yet**Manny Rayner et al.*2005 · 12 citations*
7. **[Using LARA to create image-based and phonetically annotated multimodal texts for endangered languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.computel-1.9/) Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages · no summary yet**Branislav Bédi et al.*2022 · 10 citations*
8. **[Using a Serious Game to Collect a Child Learner Speech Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L14-1611/) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) · no summary yet**Claudia Baur, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis*2014 · 9 citations*
9. **[Une grammaire multilingue partagée pour la traduction automatique de la parole ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.jeptalnrecital-long.6/) Actes de la 13ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs · no summary yet**Pierrette Bouillon et al.*2006 · 9 citations*
10. **[Using Artificially Generated Data to Evaluate Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-2607/) Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2009) · no summary yet**Manny Rayner et al.*2009 · 7 citations*
11. **[Translation Methodology in the Spoken Language Translator: An Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W97-0411/) Spoken Language Translation · no summary yet**David Carter et al.*1997 · 6 citations*
12. **[Adapting a Medical speech to speech translation system (MedSLT) to Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bouillon-2007-adapting-medical-speech-speech-translation/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Manny Rayner, et al.*2007 · 5 citations*
13. **[Using corpora to develop limited-domain speech translation systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1995.tc-1.11/) Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 17 · no summary yet**Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, David Carter*1995 · 5 citations*
14. **[Two Approaches to Correcting Homophone Confusions in a Hybrid Machine Translation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W13-2816/) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation · no summary yet**Pierrette Bouillon et al.*2013 · 2 citations*
15. **[A Bootstrapped Interlingua-Based SMT Architecture ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2010.eamt-1.39/) Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation · no summary yet**Manny Rayner, Paula Estrella, Pierrette Bouillon*2010 · 2 citations*
16. **[Using Paraphrases of Deep Semantic Representions to Support Regression Testing in Spoken Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-1503/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing (SETQA-NLP 2009) · no summary yet**Beth Ann Hockey, Manny Rayner*2009 · 1 citation*
17. **[T is for Treu, but how do you pronounce that? Using C-LARA to create phonetic texts for Kanak languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.computel-1.4/) Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages · no summary yet**Pauline Welby, Fabrice Wacalie, Manny Rayner*2024*
18. **[A comparison of the XTAG and CLE Grammars for English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W00-2026/) Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+5) · no summary yet**Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Frankie James*2000*

## Co-authors here

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

- [Beth Ann Hockey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beth-ann-hockey/)
- [Bjorn Gamback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-gamback/)
- [David Carter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-carter/)
- [Hiyan Alshawi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiyan-alshawi/)
- [Pierrette Bouillon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierrette-bouillon/)

## Venues

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

- Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages ×2
- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 1991](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1991/)
- [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/): [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources 2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/2007/)
- Actes de la 12ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs
- Actes de la 13ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Articles longs
- Actes de la 14ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters
- Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 17
- Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
- Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2009)
- Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+5)
- Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Medical Speech Translation
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 60 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manny-rayner/cited-by/).

Updated 31 October 2026