--- title: "Mingbo Ma — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Mingbo Ma, Meta: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2019), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingbo-ma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingbo-ma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mingbo Ma # Mingbo Ma Mingbo Ma has 3 papers in our library, in 2018–2019, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Liang Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-huang/), [Baigong Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/baigong-zheng/), [Renjie Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/renjie-zheng/). 3 papers in our library · 2018–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009311991) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009311991) · [44 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009311991) · [1,132 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009311991&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingbo-ma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 265 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingbo-ma/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/31/#star-3006) 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=Mingbo+Ma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mingbo+Ma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mingbo+Ma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mingbo+Ma) ## Affiliations [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🏢**Baidu** Beijing · China 2018–2021 · 20 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/baidu/) · [🎓**Oregon State University** Corvallis · United States 2017–2019 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/oregon-state-university/) · [🎓**The Graduate Center, CUNY** New York · United States 2014–2015 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-graduate-center-cuny/) · [🎓**City University of New York** New York · United States 2014–2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/city-university-of-new-york/) · [🎓**Queens College, CUNY** New York · United States 2015 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03v8adn41) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 2 papers Mingbo Ma's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingbo-ma/year/2019/) · [**2018** 1 paper Breaking the Beam Search Curse: A Study of (Re-)Scoring Methods and Stopping Criteria for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2018-breaking-beam-search-curse-study/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[STACL: Simultaneous Translation with Implicit Anticipation and Controllable Latency using Prefix-to-Prefix Framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2019-stacl-simultaneous-translation-implicit-anticipation/)** *(2019 · 349 citations)* Simultaneous machine translation must produce output while the speaker is still talking. Word-order mismatches make this hard: when translating an SOV language such as German into an SVO language such as English, the system may need to wait for a verb at the end of the sentence. Earlier systems, such as the… 2. **[Breaking the Beam Search Curse: A Study of (Re-)Scoring Methods and Stopping Criteria for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2018-breaking-beam-search-curse-study/)** *(2018 · 156 citations)* In neural machine translation, widening the beam beyond about 5 usually makes BLEU worse. This is the "beam search curse." Yang, Huang and Ma trace it to output length. A wider beam reaches \ earlier, and the model's scores favor short candidates. Translations therefore shrink, and the brevity penalty lowers… 3. **[Simpler and Faster Learning of Adaptive Policies for Simultaneous Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2019-simpler-faster-learning-adaptive-policies/)** *(2019 · 112 citations)* Simultaneous MT must decide, word by word, whether to wait for more source input (READ) or emit output (WRITE). ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Liang Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-huang/) ×3 - [Baigong Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/baigong-zheng/) ×2 - [Renjie Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/renjie-zheng/) ×2 - [Haifeng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haifeng-wang/) - [Hua Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hua-wu/) - [Zhongjun He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhongjun-he/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2019/), [EMNLP 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2018/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 265 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingbo-ma/cited-by/). 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