--- title: "Seth Aycock · University of Turku — author profile and papers" description: "Seth Aycock, University of Turku: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seth-aycock/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seth-aycock/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Seth Aycock # Seth Aycock Seth Aycock has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Christof Monz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christof-monz/), [Di Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/di-wu/), [Gianluca Vico](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gianluca-vico/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5020572311) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5020572311) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020572311) · [28 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020572311&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seth-aycock/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 43 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seth-aycock/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9639](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/97/#star-9639) 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=Seth+Aycock) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Seth+Aycock) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Seth+Aycock) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Seth+Aycock) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2024–2026 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🎓**University of Turku** Turku · Finland 2026 · 3 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seth-aycock/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seth-aycock/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Please Translate Again: Two Simple Experiments on Whether Human-Like Reasoning Helps Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2025-please-translate-again-two-simple/)** *(2025 · 12 citations)* The paper asks whether LLM translation actually benefits from human-style reasoning. In that approach, the model first analyses the source text (idioms, meanings and similar aspects), then drafts a translation, then refines it. The authors re-implement the four-step Step-by-step prompt of Briakou et al. (2024), a… 2. **[How Important is ‘Perfect' English for Machine Translation Prompts?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmidtova-2026-how-important-is-perfect-english/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* LLMs now lead machine translation benchmarks, but they are tuned on carefully written standard English prompts. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Can LLMs Really Learn to Translate a Low-Resource Language from One Grammar Book? ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19151) ICLR 2025 (arXiv:2409.19151) · no summary yet**Seth Aycock et al.*2025 · 31 citations* 2. **[Please Translate Again: Two Simple Experiments on Whether Human-Like Reasoning Helps Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2025-please-translate-again-two-simple/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Di Wu, Seth Aycock, Christof Monz*2025 · 12 citations* 3. **[How Important is ‘Perfect' English for Machine Translation Prompts?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmidtova-2026-how-important-is-perfect-english/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Patrícia Schmidtová, Niyati Bafna, Seth Aycock, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 4. **[Last Translation Benchmark ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04173) arXiv:2609.04173 · no summary yet**Vilem Zouhar et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Christof Monz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christof-monz/) - [Di Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/di-wu/) - [Gianluca Vico](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gianluca-vico/) - [Niyati Bafna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niyati-bafna/) - [Patrícia Schmidtová](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patricia-schmidtova/) - [Vilém Zouhar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vilem-zouhar/) - [Wiktor Kamzela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wiktor-kamzela/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - ICLR 2025 (arXiv:2409.19151) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 43 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seth-aycock/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026