--- title: "Spyros Matsoukas — author profile and papers" description: "Spyros Matsoukas: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2007–2012), h-index 27 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/spyros-matsoukas/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/spyros-matsoukas/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Spyros Matsoukas # Spyros Matsoukas Spyros Matsoukas has 4 papers in our library, in 2007–2012, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Antti-Veikko Rosti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antti-veikko-rosti/), [Richard Schwartz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-schwartz/), [Bing Xiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-xiang/). 4 papers in our library · 2007–2012 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5034173999) · [**h-index 27**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5034173999) · [126 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034173999) · [2,501 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034173999&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/spyros-matsoukas/#papers) · [🔗 357 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/spyros-matsoukas/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2361](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/24/#star-2361) 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=Spyros+Matsoukas) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Spyros+Matsoukas) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Spyros+Matsoukas) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Spyros+Matsoukas) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2014–2022 · 22 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🏢**GTE** Stamford 2002–2007 · 12 papers](https://ror.org/03ek3rf92) · [🏢**RTX** Arlington · United States 2004–2013 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/rtx/) · [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 1997–2002 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2[Machine translation · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zbib-2012-machine-translation-arabic-dialects/) ### 2000s [**2009** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matsoukas-2009-discriminative-corpus-weight-estimation-machine/) · [**2007** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/spyros-matsoukas/year/2007/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zbib-2012-machine-translation-arabic-dialects/)** *(2012 · 286 citations)* The paper addresses the shortage of parallel data for translating Arabic dialects, which dominate informal online writing but differ sharply from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). 2. **[Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rosti-2007-combining-outputs-multiple-machine-translation/)** *(2007 · 240 citations)* The paper asks whether translations from several machine translation systems built on different paradigms can be merged into output that beats any single one of them. 3. **[Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matsoukas-2009-discriminative-corpus-weight-estimation-machine/)** *(2009 · 192 citations)* Parallel corpora for SMT mix collections that differ in quality and in how well they match the target domain. 4. **[Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rosti-2007-improved-word-level-system-combination/)** *(2007 · 191 citations)* This paper tackles the problem of merging the outputs of several machine translation systems into one better translation. ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zbib-2012-machine-translation-arabic-dialects/)**Rabih Zbib, Erika Malchiodi, Jacob Devlin, et al.*[Conference of the North American Chapter of the…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) · 286 citations* 2. **[Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rosti-2007-combining-outputs-multiple-machine-translation/)**Antti-Veikko Rosti, Necip Fazil Ayan, Bing Xiang, et al.*[Conference of the North American Chapter of the…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) · 240 citations* 3. **[Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matsoukas-2009-discriminative-corpus-weight-estimation-machine/)**Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhang*[Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) · 192 citations* 4. **[Improved Word-Level System Combination for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rosti-2007-improved-word-level-system-combination/)**Antti-Veikko Rosti, Spyros Matsoukas, Richard Schwartz*[Annual Meeting of the Association for…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) · 191 citations* 5. **[Expected BLEU Training for Graphs: BBN System Description for WMT11 System Combination Task](https://aclanthology.org/W11-2119/) (original ↗)**Antti-Veikko Rosti et al.*2011 · Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on… · 30 citations · no summary yet* 6. **[Decision Trees for Lexical Smoothing in Statistical Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/W10-1763/) (original ↗)**Rabih Zbib et al.*2010 · Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on… · 12 citations · no summary yet* 7. **[Statistical Machine Translation with a Factorized Grammar](https://aclanthology.org/D10-1060/) (original ↗)**Libin Shen et al.*2010 · Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical… · 5 citations · no summary yet* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Antti-Veikko Rosti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antti-veikko-rosti/) ×3 - [Richard Schwartz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-schwartz/) ×3 - [Bing Xiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-xiang/) - [Bonnie Dorr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-dorr/) - [Chris Callison-Burch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-callison-burch/) - [David Stallard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-stallard/) - [Jacob Devlin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-devlin/) - [John Makhoul](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-makhoul/) - [Omar F. Zaidan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-f-zaidan/) - [Rabih Zbib](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rabih-zbib/) ## 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…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [2009](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2009/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) ×2: [2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2012/), [2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2007/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2007/) - Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical… - Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 357 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [44 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/spyros-matsoukas/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026