--- title: "Nicholas Micallef — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Nicholas Micallef, Swansea University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-micallef/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-micallef/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nicholas Micallef # Nicholas Micallef Nicholas Micallef has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Julian Hough](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039997297) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2683-8042) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039997297) · [68 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039997297) · [546 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039997297&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-micallef/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 12 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-micallef/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9717](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/98/#star-9717) 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=Nicholas+Micallef) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nicholas+Micallef) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nicholas+Micallef) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nicholas+Micallef) ## Affiliations [🎓**Swansea University** Swansea · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 34 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/swansea-university/) · [🎓**New York University Abu Dhabi** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2020–2022 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university-abu-dhabi/) · [🎓**Glasgow Caledonian University** Glasgow · United Kingdom 2011–2015 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/03dvm1235) · [🎓**UNSW Canberra** Canberra 2017–2018 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/0125wpx05) · [🎓**Australian Defence Force Academy** Canberra · Australia 2018–2019 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02j5s7g39) 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. ## 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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Word sense disambiguation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-micallef/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-micallef/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Can LLMs assist with Ambiguity? A Quantitative Evaluation of various Large Language Models on Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sumanathilaka-2024-llms-assist-ambiguity-quantitative-evaluation/)** *(2024 · 11 citations)* Large language models are tested here on Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), especially for highly polysemous English words with many noun and verb senses, where classic supervised systems struggle because labelled data is scarce. 2. **[SwanNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 5: An LLM-based Framework for Plausibility Scoring in Narrative Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sumanathilaka-2026-swannlp-semeval-2026-task-5/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* This paper describes the SwanNLP system for SemEval-2026 Task 5. The task asks systems to predict how plausible humans find a given sense of a homonym inside a short story, on a 1–5 scale. The data come from the AmbiStory dataset. Each instance has a multi-sentence precontext, an ambiguous sentence and sometimes an… ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Julian Hough](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-hough/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-micallef/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026