--- title: "Miaoran Zhang · Saarland University — author profile and papers" description: "Miaoran Zhang, Saarland University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miaoran-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miaoran-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Miaoran Zhang # Miaoran Zhang Miaoran Zhang has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/), [Cristina España-Bonet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cristina-espana-bonet/), [Dawei Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawei-zhu/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5045262403) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5045262403) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045262403) · [9 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045262403&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miaoran-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 19 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miaoran-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10063](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10063) 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=Miaoran+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Miaoran+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Miaoran+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Miaoran+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Saarland University** Saarbrücken · Germany 2022–2024 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miaoran-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miaoran-zhang/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miaoran-zhang/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alabi-2025-afridoc-mt-document-level-mt/)** *(2025 · 13 citations)* Most machine translation research for African languages has worked on isolated sentences, and there has been almost no benchmark for translating whole documents. 2. **[A Lightweight Method to Generate Unanswerable Questions in English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gautam-2023-lightweight-method-generate-unanswerable-questions/)** *(2023 · 6 citations)* Extractive QA systems tend to produce a plausible-looking span even when the passage does not contain the answer. 3. **[AfriMTEB and AfriE5: Benchmarking and Adapting Text Embedding Models for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uemura-2026-afrimteb-afrie5-benchmarking-adapting-text/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Existing text-embedding benchmarks such as MMTEB cover African languages poorly. Some task types have no African data at all, and others include only one to three languages, so it is unclear how well embedding models serve the region. ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) ×2 - [Cristina España-Bonet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cristina-espana-bonet/) - [Dawei Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawei-zhu/) - [Dietrich Klakow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dietrich-klakow/) - [Iffat Maab](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iffat-maab/) - [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) - [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/) - [Kosei Uemura](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kosei-uemura/) - [Rachel Bawden](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rachel-bawden/) - [Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/) - [Vagrant Gautam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vagrant-gautam/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 19 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miaoran-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026