--- title: "Raphaël Merx — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Raphaël Merx, Australian National University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-merx/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-merx/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Raphaël Merx # Raphaël Merx Raphaël Merx has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/), [Hebrew & Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/); often with [Aso Mahmudi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aso-mahmudi/), [Ekaterina Vylomova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekaterina-vylomova/), [Jey Han Lau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jey-han-lau/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5095762190) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3242-2311) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5095762190) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5095762190) · [21 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5095762190&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-merx/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 18 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-merx/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8592](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8592) 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=Rapha%C3%ABl+Merx) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rapha%C3%ABl+Merx) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rapha%C3%ABl+Merx) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rapha%C3%ABl+Merx) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 2024–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) · [🎓**Australian National University** Canberra · Australia 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/australian-national-university/) · [🎓**University of Turku** Turku · Finland 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-turku/) 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 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 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Low-resource languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Machine translation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Biblical Hebrew · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/biblical-hebrew/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-merx/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-merx/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Low-Resource Machine Translation through Retrieval-Augmented LLM Prompting: A Study on the Mambai Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/merx-2024-low-resource-machine-translation-through/)** *(2024 · 27 citations)* Mambai, an Austronesian language of Timor-Leste with about 200,000 native speakers, has almost no digital NLP resources. 2. **[Context Volume Drives Performance: Tackling Domain Shift in Extremely Low-Resource Translation via RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/setiawan-2026-context-volume-drives-performance-tackling/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The authors translate Dhao, an Indonesian language with a New Testament but no digital footprint beyond it, into the Old Testament, which is a domain shift. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aso Mahmudi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aso-mahmudi/) - [Ekaterina Vylomova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekaterina-vylomova/) - [Jey Han Lau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jey-han-lau/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/): [LoResMT 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/2026/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 18 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-merx/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026