--- title: "Terry Ruas · University of Göttingen — author profile and papers" description: "Terry Ruas, University of Göttingen: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terry-ruas/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terry-ruas/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Terry Ruas # Terry Ruas Terry Ruas has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Bela Gipp](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bela-gipp/), [Jan Philip Wahle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-philip-wahle/), [Daniel Kurzawe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-kurzawe/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5081763922) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9440-780X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114734496) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5081763922) · [156 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081763922) · [831 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081763922&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terry-ruas/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 137 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terry-ruas/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12417](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/125/#star-12417) 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=Terry+Ruas) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Terry+Ruas) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Terry+Ruas) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Terry+Ruas) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Göttingen** Göttingen · Germany 2021–2026 · 57 papersEmployment since 2022 · Postodoctoral researcher, Informatik*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-gottingen/) · [🎓**University of Wuppertal** Wuppertal · Germany 2019–2023 · 25 papersEmployment 2019–2022 · Postdoctoral Researcher, Data & Knowledge Engineering Group](https://ror.org/00613ak93) · [🎓**University of Michigan–Dearborn** Dearborn · United States 2012–2020 · 10 papersEducation 2015–2019 · Ph.D. Computer and Information Science, CISEmployment 2015–2017 · Graduate Student Instructor, CISEmployment 2018–2019 · Graduate Student Instructor, CIS](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan-dearborn/) · [🏛️**National Research Council Canada** Ottawa · Canada 2022–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-research-council-canada/) · [🎓**Universidade Federal do ABC** Santo André · Brazil 2007–2014 · 4 papersEducation 2007–2010 · BS. Computer Science, CMCCEducation 2007–2010 · BS. Science and Technology, CMCCEducation 2012–2013 · MS. information Engineering, CECS](https://ror.org/028kg9j04) · [🎓**University of Michigan** Ann Arbor · United States 2016–2020 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan/) · [🔬**National Institute of Informatics** Tokyo · Japan 2018Employment 2018 · Ph.D. Research Internship, Aizawa's Laboratory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-informatics/) 🏛️**IBM Brasil** Sao Paulo · [Brazil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/brazil/) 2009–2015Employment 2009–2010 · Intern Support, Technology Support ServicesEmployment 2010–2012 · IT Specialist/Product Service, Technology Support ServicesEmployment 2012–2014 · Software Support Coordinator, Technology Support ServicesEmployment 2014–2015 · Product Manager, Cost Branding & Delivery Service Planner, Technology Support Services 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terry-ruas/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Who Watches the Watchmen? Humans Disagree With Translation Metrics on Unseen Domains](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmidt-2026-who-watches-watchmen-humans-disagree/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Most quality estimation (QE) metrics for machine translation are built and validated on WMT data, so it is unclear whether they remain reliable on new domains. 2. **[ALDEN: Reinforcement Learning for Active Navigation and Evidence Gathering in Long Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-alden-reinforcement-learning-active-navigation/)** *(2026)* Vision-language models (VLMs) read single text-rich pages well but struggle when an answer requires reasoning across long, multi-page documents. 3. **[Multi-Agent Reasoning Improves Compute Efficiency: Pareto-Optimal Test-Time Scaling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wunderlich-2026-multi-agent-reasoning-improves-compute/)** *(2026)* Inference-time techniques can raise LLM accuracy without retraining, but they are usually reported by accuracy alone, which hides large differences in compute use. ## All works 13 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Neural Media Bias Detection Using Distant Supervision With BABE - Bias Annotations By Experts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.101/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 · no summary yet**Timo Spinde et al.*2021 · 98 citations* 2. **[How Large Language Models are Transforming Machine-Paraphrase Plagiarism ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.62/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Jan Philip Wahle et al.*2022 · 55 citations* 3. **[Identifying Machine-Paraphrased Plagiarism ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96957-8_34) arXiv:2103.11909 · iConference 2022 · no summary yet**Jan Philip Wahle et al.*2021 · 51 citations* 4. **[Are Neural Language Models Good Plagiarists? A Benchmark for Neural Paraphrase Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/jcdl52503.2021.00065) arXiv:2103.12450 · JCDL 2021 · no summary yet**Jan Philip Wahle et al.*2021 · 37 citations* 5. **[Evaluating Document Representations for Content-based Legal Literature Recommendations ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13841) arXiv:2104.13841 · no summary yet**Malte Ostendorff et al.*2021 · 34 citations* 6. **[Paraphrase Types for Generation and Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.746/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Jan Philip Wahle, Bela Gipp, Terry Ruas*2023 · 25 citations* 7. **[Paraphrase Types Elicit Prompt Engineering Capabilities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.617/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Jan Philip Wahle et al.*2024 · 20 citations* 8. **[Why Machines Cannot Learn Mathematics, Yet ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08359) arXiv:1905.08359 (2019 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2414/paper14.pdf) · no summary yet**André Greiner-Petter et al.*2019 · 12 citations* 9. **[Paraphrase Detection: Human vs. Machine Content ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13989) arXiv:2303.13989 · no summary yet**Jonas Becker et al.*2023 · 11 citations* 10. **[Towards Human Understanding of Paraphrase Types in Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.421/) Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Dominik Meier et al.*2025 · 4 citations* 11. **[Who Watches the Watchmen? Humans Disagree With Translation Metrics on Unseen Domains](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schmidt-2026-who-watches-watchmen-humans-disagree/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Finn Schmidt, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 12. **[ALDEN: Reinforcement Learning for Active Navigation and Evidence Gathering in Long Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-alden-reinforcement-learning-active-navigation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Tianyu Yang, Terry Ruas, Yijun Tian, et al.*2026* 13. **[Multi-Agent Reasoning Improves Compute Efficiency: Pareto-Optimal Test-Time Scaling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wunderlich-2026-multi-agent-reasoning-improves-compute/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Florian Valentin Wunderlich, Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Jan Philip Wahle, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bela Gipp](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bela-gipp/) ×3 - [Jan Philip Wahle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-philip-wahle/) ×3 - [Daniel Kurzawe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-kurzawe/) - [Tianyu Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-yang/) - [Yijun Tian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yijun-tian/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ×3 - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2 - [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/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 - Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 137 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terry-ruas/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026