--- title: "Masao Utiyama — author profile and papers" description: "Masao Utiyama, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2007–2025), h-index 32 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masao-utiyama/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masao-utiyama/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Masao Utiyama # Masao Utiyama Masao Utiyama has 3 papers in our library, in 2007–2025, most of them on [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/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Hitoshi Isahara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitoshi-isahara/), [Ahmed Elshabrawy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-elshabrawy/), [Alham Fikri Aji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alham-fikri-aji/). 3 papers in our library · 2007–2025 current affiliation [National Institute of Information and Communications Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-information-and-communications-technology/), Tokyo, Japan [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5021667085) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1111-9245) · [**h-index 32**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5021667085) · [296 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021667085) · [4 069 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021667085&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masao-utiyama/#papers) · [480 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masao-utiyama/cited-by/) · 17 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2930](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2930) 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=Masao+Utiyama) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Masao+Utiyama) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Masao+Utiyama) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Masao+Utiyama) ## Affiliations - [National Institute of Information and Communications Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-information-and-communications-technology/) · Tokyo, Japan —current · 2004–2026 on 203 papers - [National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-advanced-industrial-science-and-technology/) · Tsukuba, Japan —2020–2021 on 3 papers - [National Institute for Environmental Studies](https://ror.org/02hw5fp67) · Tsukuba, Japan —1997–2007 on 5 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Machine translation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elshabrawy-2025-alignment-hurts-decoupling-representational-spaces/) ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakazawa-2016-aspec-asian-scientific-paper-excerpt/) ### 2000s [**2007** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/utiyama-2007-comparison-pivot-methods-phrase-based/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/utiyama-2007-comparison-pivot-methods-phrase-based/)** *(2007 · 263 citations)* The paper tackles translation between language pairs that lack a direct parallel corpus, apart from a few hundred sentences used for tuning, by routing through English as a pivot. 2. **[ASPEC: Asian Scientific Paper Excerpt Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakazawa-2016-aspec-asian-scientific-paper-excerpt/)** *(2016 · 245 citations)* Before ASPEC, no sizeable parallel corpus spanned many scientific disciplines. Earlier automatic extractions from portals such as MEDLINE or Elsevier were small and limited to narrow subject areas, which hampered machine translation of research literature written in languages other than English. The authors describe… 3. **[When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elshabrawy-2025-alignment-hurts-decoupling-representational-spaces/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* The paper questions a common belief: that a low-resource variety always gains when a model aligns it tightly with a related high-resource standard. ## Also in our library 17 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hitoshi Isahara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hitoshi-isahara/) ×2 - [Ahmed Elshabrawy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-elshabrawy/) - [Alham Fikri Aji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alham-fikri-aji/) - [Eiichiro Sumita](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eiichiro-sumita/) - [Haiyue Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haiyue-song/) - [Raj Dabre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raj-dabre/) - [Sadao Kurohashi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sadao-kurohashi/) - [Toshiaki Nakazawa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/toshiaki-nakazawa/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 480 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masao-utiyama/cited-by/).