--- title: "Semih Yavuz — author profile and papers" description: "Semih Yavuz, Salesforce (United States): 3 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2023), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/semih-yavuz/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/semih-yavuz/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Semih Yavuz # Semih Yavuz 3 papers on this site · 2019–2023 current affiliation [Salesforce (United States)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/salesforce/), San Francisco, United States Semih Yavuz has 3 papers on this site, in 2019–2023, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Alexander Fabbri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-fabbri/), [Arvind Neelakantan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arvind-neelakantan/), [Ben Goodrich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-goodrich/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5048500970) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5048500970) · [91 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048500970) · [1 452 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048500970&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/semih-yavuz/#papers) · [343 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/semih-yavuz/cited-by/) · 5 more works in our library 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=Semih+Yavuz) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Semih+Yavuz) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Semih+Yavuz) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Semih+Yavuz) ## Affiliations - [Salesforce (United States)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/salesforce/) · San Francisco, United States —current · 2020–2026 on 42 papers - [The University of Texas at Austin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · Austin, United States —2022–2025 on 3 papers - [Google (United States)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · Mountain View, United States —2018–2023 on 5 papers - [Carnegie Mellon University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · Pittsburgh, United States —2019–2023 on 2 papers - [University of California, Santa Barbara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/) · Santa Barbara, United States —2016–2020 on 13 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Machine translation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Summarization 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Dialogue systems 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tang-2023-understanding-factual-errors-summarization-errors/) ### 2010s [**2019** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/semih-yavuz/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Monotonic Infinite Lookback Attention for Simultaneous Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arivazhagan-2019-monotonic-infinite-lookback-attention-simultaneous/)** *(2019 · 259 citations)* Simultaneous machine translation starts producing output before the speaker finishes a sentence. It must decide when to read more source tokens and when to write target tokens, trading quality against delay. Earlier systems either learned an adaptive schedule on top of an NMT model trained only on full sentences, or… 2. **[Taskmaster-1: Toward a Realistic and Diverse Dialog Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/byrne-2019-taskmaster-1-realistic-diverse-dialog/)** *(2019 · 244 citations)* Data-driven dialog systems have been held back by a shortage of high-quality, goal-oriented conversational data. 3. **[Understanding Factual Errors in Summarization: Errors, Summarizers, Datasets, Error Detectors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tang-2023-understanding-factual-errors-summarization-errors/)** *(2023 · 126 citations)* Metrics for detecting factual errors in abstractive summaries are hard to compare. Systems, metrics and annotated benchmarks keep changing, and many test summaries come from outdated models. The authors build AggreFact, a meta-benchmark that merges nine existing human-annotated factuality datasets on CNN/DM and XSum… ## Also in our library 5 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 18 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alexander Fabbri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-fabbri/) - [Arvind Neelakantan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arvind-neelakantan/) - [Ben Goodrich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-goodrich/) - [Bill Byrne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-byrne/) - [Chung-Cheng Chiu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chung-cheng-chiu/) - [Colin Cherry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-cherry/) - [Colin Raffel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-raffel/) - [Daniel Duckworth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-duckworth/) - [Greg Durrett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/greg-durrett/) - [Jiacheng Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiacheng-xu/) - [Liyan Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liyan-tang/) - [Naveen Arivazhagan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naveen-arivazhagan/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 343 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/semih-yavuz/cited-by/).