--- title: "Melanie Galea — author profile and papers" description: "Melanie Galea, University of Malta: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melanie-galea/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melanie-galea/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Melanie Galea # Melanie Galea Melanie Galea has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Aiden Williams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aiden-williams/), [Claudia Borg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/), [Kurt Abela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109221298) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109221298) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109221298) · [33 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109221298&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melanie-galea/#papers) · 🔗 2 citations in our library · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4986](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4986) 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=Melanie+Galea) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Melanie+Galea) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Melanie+Galea) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Melanie+Galea) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Malta** Msida · Malta 2024–2025 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-malta/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2005–2006 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Speech & spoken language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melanie-galea/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[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… 2. **[UOM-Constrained IWSLT 2024 Shared Task Submission - Maltese Speech Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abela-2024-uom-constrained-iwslt-2024-shared/)** *(2024 · 2 citations)* This paper describes the University of Malta's entry to the constrained low-resource track of IWSLT 2024. The task was Maltese-to-English speech translation using only a small, fixed amount of training data. The team built a three-stage cascade: ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aiden Williams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aiden-williams/) ×2 - [Claudia Borg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/) ×2 - [Kurt Abela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/) - [Kurt Micallef](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-micallef/) - [Sara Nabhani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-nabhani/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read).