--- title: "Pranava Madhyastha — author profile and papers" description: "Pranava Madhyastha, University of London: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2019), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranava-madhyastha/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranava-madhyastha/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Pranava Madhyastha # Pranava Madhyastha Pranava Madhyastha has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2019, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Loïc Barrault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/loic-barrault/), [Lucia Specia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucia-specia/), [Xavier Carreras](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xavier-carreras/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5055155740) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-8161) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5055155740) · [107 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055155740) · [760 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055155740&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranava-madhyastha/#papers) · [🔗 89 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranava-madhyastha/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3784](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/38/#star-3784) 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=Pranava+Madhyastha) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Pranava+Madhyastha) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Pranava+Madhyastha) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Pranava+Madhyastha) ## Affiliations [🎓**City, University of London** London · United Kingdom 2021–2026 · 22 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04489at23) · [🔬**The Alan Turing Institute** London · United Kingdom 2025–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/the-alan-turing-institute/) · [🎓**City St George's, University of London** London · United Kingdom 2023–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://ror.org/047ybhc09) · [🎓**University of London** London · United Kingdom 2022–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-london/) · [🎓**St George's, University of London** London · United Kingdom 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/040f08y74) · [🎓**Imperial College London** London · United Kingdom 2019–2023 · 28 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) · [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 2017–2021 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🎓**Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya** Barcelona · Spain 2014–2016 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya/) 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. ## Topics [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/caglayan-2019-probing-need-visual-context-multimodal/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/madhyastha-2017-prepositional-phrase-attachment-over-word/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Probing the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/caglayan-2019-probing-need-visual-context-multimodal/)** *(2019 · 214 citations)* Earlier multimodal machine translation (MMT) studies found that images add little or nothing. Many attributed this to weak image features or poor fusion methods. The authors propose another cause: the Multi30K captions are short, simple and repetitive, so the English source already holds enough context and the image… 2. **[Prepositional Phrase Attachment over Word Embedding Products](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/madhyastha-2017-prepositional-phrase-attachment-over-word/)** *(2017 · 1 citation)* The paper scores a PP attachment with a tensor product of the word vectors of the verb, the noun, the preposition and the object, with a low-rank constraint on the tensor. ## 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 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Loïc Barrault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/loic-barrault/) - [Lucia Specia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucia-specia/) - [Xavier Carreras](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xavier-carreras/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 89 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranava-madhyastha/cited-by/).