--- title: "Samuel Thomas — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Samuel Thomas, IBM: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2019), h-index 30 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-thomas/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-thomas/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Samuel Thomas # Samuel Thomas Samuel Thomas has 3 papers in our library, in 2017–2019, most of them on [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Bhuvana Ramabhadran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bhuvana-ramabhadran/), [Gakuto Kurata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gakuto-kurata/), [George Saon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-saon/). 3 papers in our library · 2017–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101787514) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7573-0620) · [**h-index 30**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101787514) · [129 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101787514) · [3,750 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101787514&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-thomas/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 41 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-thomas/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3485](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/35/#star-3485) 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=Samuel+Thomas) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Samuel+Thomas) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Samuel+Thomas) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Samuel+Thomas) ## Affiliations [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2014–2026 · 60 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2009–2013 · 28 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 2014–2023 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🔬**Idiap Research Institute** Martigny-Combe · Switzerland 2008–2009 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/) · [🎓**École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne** Lausanne · Switzerland 2008–2009 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Speech & spoken language · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Samuel Thomas's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thomas-2019-english-broadcast-news-speech-recognition/) · [**2018** 1 paper Samuel Thomas's papers of 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2018-joint-modeling-accents-acoustics-multi/) · [**2017** 1 paper Samuel Thomas's papers of 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saon-2017-english-conversational-telephone-speech-recognition/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition by Humans and Machines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saon-2017-english-conversational-telephone-speech-recognition/)** *(2017 · 382 citations)* The paper tests the claim that machines reached human-level accuracy on conversational telephone speech. It also reports a stronger IBM recognizer. The authors hired the transcription vendor Appen to run their own human benchmark on the Switchboard (SWB) and CallHome (CH) subsets of the NIST Hub5 2000 test set. Three… 2. **[Joint Modeling of Accents and Acoustics for Multi-Accent Speech Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2018-joint-modeling-accents-acoustics-multi/)** *(2018 · 73 citations)* Speech recognizers lose accuracy when test speakers have an accent that differs from the training data. Earlier multi-accent acoustic models relied on accent information only indirectly, for example through separate phone sets per accent. Yang et al. instead train an accent identification (AID) network together with… 3. **[English Broadcast News Speech Recognition by Humans and Machines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thomas-2019-english-broadcast-news-speech-recognition/)** *(2019 · 12 citations)* The paper asks whether deep-learning recipes that brought conversational telephone speech (CTS) recognition near human level also work for English broadcast news (BN). ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bhuvana Ramabhadran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bhuvana-ramabhadran/) ×2 - [Gakuto Kurata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gakuto-kurata/) ×2 - [George Saon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-saon/) ×2 - [Kartik Audhkhasi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kartik-audhkhasi/) ×2 - [Michael Picheny](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-picheny/) ×2 - [Andrew Rosenberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-rosenberg/) - [Brian Kingsbury](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-kingsbury/) - [Mark Hasegawa-Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-hasegawa-johnson/) - [Tom Sercu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-sercu/) - [Zoltan Tuske](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zoltan-tuske/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-acoustics-speech-and-signal-processing/) ×2: [IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-acoustics-speech-and-signal-processing/2019/), [IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-acoustics-speech-and-signal-processing/2018/) - [Interspeech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/): [Interspeech 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/interspeech-usb/2017/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 41 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-thomas/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026