--- title: "Thomas Hofmann — author profile and papers" description: "Thomas Hofmann, ETH Zurich: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1999–2017), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-hofmann/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-hofmann/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Thomas Hofmann # Thomas Hofmann Thomas Hofmann has 2 papers in our library, in 1999–2017, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Jason Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-lee/), [Kyunghyun Cho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyunghyun-cho/). 2 papers in our library · 1999–2017 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102981763) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1270-7053) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102981763) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102981763) · [21 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102981763&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-hofmann/#papers) · [🔗 279 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-hofmann/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #940](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/10/#star-940) 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=Thomas+Hofmann) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Thomas+Hofmann) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Thomas+Hofmann) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Thomas+Hofmann) ## Affiliations [🎓**ETH Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2014–2026 · 93 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 1999–2007 · 36 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🔬**Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics** Tübingen · Germany 2003–2012 · 12 papers](https://ror.org/026nmvv73) · [🎓**University of Bonn** Bonn · Germany 1993–2002 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bonn/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 1999–2017 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🔬**Max Planck Society** Munich · Germany 2003–2007 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-society/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1997–2002 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**International Computer Science Institute** Berkeley · United States 1999–2017 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/international-computer-science-institute/) · [🏢**Google** Zurich · Switzerland 2007–2011 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-switzerland/) · [🎓**Technische Universität Darmstadt** Darmstadt · Germany 2005–2008 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 11 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2017-fully-character-level-neural-machine/) ### 1990s [**1999** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hofmann-1999-probabilistic-latent-semantic-analysis/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hofmann-1999-probabilistic-latent-semantic-analysis/)** *(1999 · 2,145 citations)* Hofmann revisits Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), which compresses term-document count tables with a truncated SVD. 2. **[Fully Character-Level Neural Machine Translation without Explicit Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2017-fully-character-level-neural-machine/)** *(2017 · 545 citations)* Word- and subword-level NMT systems rely on a separate segmentation step and handle rare or unseen word forms poorly. ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jason Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-lee/) - [Kyunghyun Cho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyunghyun-cho/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 279 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [22 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-hofmann/cited-by/).