--- title: "Stephan Gouws — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Stephan Gouws, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2018), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephan-gouws/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephan-gouws/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Stephan Gouws # Stephan Gouws Stephan Gouws has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2018, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Anna Goldie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-goldie/), [Ashish Vaswani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-vaswani/), [Brian Strope](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-strope/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5052500398) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5052500398) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052500398) · [6,520 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052500398&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephan-gouws/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 229 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephan-gouws/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3656](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/37/#star-3656) 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=Stephan+Gouws) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Stephan+Gouws) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Stephan+Gouws) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Stephan+Gouws) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** London · United Kingdom 2017–2020 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-united-kingdom/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2014–2018 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Stellenbosch University** Stellenbosch · South Africa 2010–2015 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stellenbosch-university/) 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper Stephan Gouws's papers of 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vaswani-2018-tensor2tensor-neural-machine-translation/) · [**2017** 1 paper Stephan Gouws's papers of 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shao-2017-generating-high-quality-informative-conversation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Generating High-Quality and Informative Conversation Responses with Sequence-to-Sequence Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shao-2017-generating-high-quality-informative-conversation/)** *(2017 · 242 citations)* Neural seq2seq conversation models tend to produce short, bland replies. When pushed to be longer, their output often becomes repetitive, incoherent or self-contradictory. Working in a single-turn setting, Shao, Gouws et al. (Google) make small changes to the standard model to get long, varied and sensible responses.… 2. **[Tensor2Tensor for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vaswani-2018-tensor2tensor-neural-machine-translation/)** *(2018 · 180 citations)* This paper presents Tensor2Tensor (T2T), an open-source TensorFlow library from Google. It aims to make deep learning research, especially neural machine translation, faster to run and easier to reproduce. The authors first trace NMT from recurrent sequence-to-sequence models with attention, through convolutional… ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anna Goldie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-goldie/) - [Ashish Vaswani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-vaswani/) - [Brian Strope](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-strope/) - [Denny Britz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-britz/) - [Eugene Brevdo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-brevdo/) - [Llion Jones](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/llion-jones/) - [Łukasz Kaiser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lukasz-kaiser/) - [Nal Kalchbrenner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nal-kalchbrenner/) - [Niki Parmar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niki-parmar/) - [Noam Shazeer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noam-shazeer/) - [Ray Kurzweil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ray-kurzweil/) - [Ryan Sepassi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-sepassi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/): [AMTA 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2018/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2017/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 229 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephan-gouws/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026