--- title: "Samson Tan — author profile and papers" description: "Samson Tan: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2023), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samson-tan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samson-tan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Samson Tan # Samson Tan Samson Tan has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2023, most of them on [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Arun Raja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arun-raja/), [Benoît Sagot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-sagot/), [Chenglei Si](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglei-si/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5103099741) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1019-8228) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5103099741) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103099741) · [1,003 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103099741&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samson-tan/#papers) · [🔗 226 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samson-tan/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3915](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3915) 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=Samson+Tan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Samson+Tan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Samson+Tan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Samson+Tan) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2022–2024 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 2020–2022 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🎓**Nanyang Technological University** Singapore · Singapore 2020–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanyang-technological-university/) · [🏢**Salesforce** San Francisco · United States 2020–2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/salesforce/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dhole-2023-nl-augmenter-framework-task-sensitive/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mielke-2021-between-words-characters-brief-history/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Between words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mielke-2021-between-words-characters-brief-history/)** *(2021 · 89 citations)* This is a survey paper by the BigScience Workshop tokenization working group. The authors examine which units of text NLP models should operate on: words, subwords, characters, bytes, or even pixels. The paper offers no new data and no method of its own. Instead, it connects research from the pre-neural and neural… 2. **[NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dhole-2023-nl-augmenter-framework-task-sensitive/)** *(2023 · 84 citations)* Data augmentation is used both to stress-test NLP models and to make their training data more diverse. Most existing perturbation tools offer a narrow, largely English set of edits that are rarely matched to a specific task. NL-Augmenter addresses this with an open, community-built Python library. It grew out of the… ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arun Raja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arun-raja/) - [Benoît Sagot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-sagot/) - [Chenglei Si](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglei-si/) - [Colin Raffel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-raffel/) - [Elizabeth Salesky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-salesky/) - [Jascha Sohl-Dickstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jascha-sohl-dickstein/) - [Manan Dey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manan-dey/) - [Saad Mahamood](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saad-mahamood/) - [Sabrina J. Mielke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sabrina-j-mielke/) - [Sebastian Gehrmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-gehrmann/) - [Simon Mille](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-mille/) - [Varun Gangal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/varun-gangal/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 226 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [29 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samson-tan/cited-by/).