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# Markus Saers

Markus Saers has 2 papers in our library, in 2007–2016, most of them on [Semantic role labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Beáta Megyesi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beata-megyesi/), [Dekai Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekai-wu/), [Gülşen Eryiǧit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gulsen-eryigit/).

2 papers in our library · 2007–2016

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5003905893) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-5075) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5003905893) · [44 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003905893) · [308 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003905893&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-saers/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 176 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-saers/cited-by/) · [16 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7335](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/74/#star-7335)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · China 2011–2018 · 21 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Uppsala University** Uppsala · Sweden 2005–2010 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/)

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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/)

🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Semantic role labeling · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-saers/year/2016/)

### 2000s

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

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Single Malt or Blended? A Study in Multilingual Parser Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hall-2007-single-malt-or-blended-study/)** *(2007 · 65 citations)* This paper describes how the Växjö/Uppsala team adapted MaltParser to the ten languages of the CoNLL 2007 multilingual dependency parsing shared task: Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, Greek, Hungarian, Italian and Turkish. The work proceeded in two stages.
2. **[Improving word alignment for low resource languages using English monolingual SRL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/beloucif-2016-improving-word-alignment-low-resource/)** *(2016 · 5 citations)* The paper addresses weak word alignment in statistical MT when little parallel data exists. Standard aligners such as GIZA++ (IBM/HMM models) and plain ITG learners depend largely on memorizing frequent patterns, which fails when data is sparse. The authors bias bracketing ITG (BITG) induction with semantic role…

## 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. **[Learning Stochastic Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars with a Cubic Time Biparsing Algorithm ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-3804/) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09) · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu*2009 · 70 citations*
2. **[Single Malt or Blended? A Study in Multilingual Parser Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hall-2007-single-malt-or-blended-study/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Johan Hall, Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre, et al.*2007 · 65 citations*
3. **[Word Alignment with Stochastic Bracketing Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N10-1050/) Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu*2010 · 47 citations*
4. **[Improving Phrase-Based Translation via Word Alignments from Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-2304/) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3) at NAACL HLT 2009 · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2009 · 47 citations*
5. **[XMEANT: Better semantic MT evaluation without reference translations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P14-2124/) Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo et al.*2014 · 44 citations*
6. **[Improving machine translation by training against an automatic semantic frame based evaluation metric ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P13-2067/) Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Chi-kiu Lo et al.*2013 · 40 citations*
7. **[LTG vs. ITG Coverage of Cross-Lingual Verb Frame Alternations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2012.eamt-1.64/) Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation · no summary yet**Karteek Addanki et al.*2012 · 19 citations*
8. **[Bayesian Induction of Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/I13-1165/) Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2013 · 6 citations*
9. **[A Systematic Comparison between Inversion Transduction Grammar and Linear Transduction Grammar for Word Alignment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W10-3802/) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu*2010 · 6 citations*
10. [**Improving word alignment for low resource languages using English monolingual SRL Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra6)**Meriem Beloucif, Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2016 · 5 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/beloucif-2016-improving-word-alignment-low-resource/)
11. **[Better Semantic Frame Based MT Evaluation via Inversion Transduction Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4003/) Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Dekai Wu et al.*2014 · 3 citations*
12. **[Segmenting vs. Chunking Rules: Unsupervised ITG Induction via Minimum Conditional Description Length ↗](https://aclanthology.org/R13-1077/) Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing RANLP 2013 · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Karteek Addanki, Dekai Wu*2013 · 1 citation*
13. **[Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar Alignments as a Second Translation Path ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W10-1724/) Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Joakim Nivre, Dekai Wu*2010 · 1 citation*
14. **[Learning Translations for Tagged Words: Extending the Translation Lexicon of an ITG for Low Resource Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-1207/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual and Cross-lingual Methods in NLP · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2016*
15. **[Improving semantic SMT via soft semantic role label constraints on ITG alignmens ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2015.mtsummit-papers.26/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XV: Papers · no summary yet**Meriem Beloucif, Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2015*
16. **[Ternary Segmentation for Improving Search in Top-down Induction of Segmental ITGs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4010/) Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2014*
17. **[Lexical Access Preference and Constraint Strategies for Improving Multiword Expression Association within Semantic MT Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4719/) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex) · no summary yet**Dekai Wu, Chi-kiu Lo, Markus Saers*2014*
18. **[Unsupervised Learning of Bilingual Categories in Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W13-5703/) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2013) · no summary yet**Markus Saers, Dekai Wu*2013*

## Co-authors here

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

- [Beáta Megyesi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beata-megyesi/)
- [Dekai Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekai-wu/)
- [Gülşen Eryiǧit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gulsen-eryigit/)
- [Jens Nilsson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jens-nilsson/)
- [Joakim Nivre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joakim-nivre/)
- [Johan Hall](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johan-hall/)
- [Meriem Beloucif](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meriem-beloucif/)

## Venues

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

- Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation ×2
- Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09) ×2
- Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) ×2
- [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2007/)
- Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XV: Papers
- Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
- Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex)
- Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation
- Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing RANLP 2013
- Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR
- Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 176 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-saers/cited-by/).

Updated 30 October 2026