--- title: "Vlad Niculae — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Vlad Niculae, University of Amsterdam: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2019), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-niculae/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-niculae/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Vlad Niculae # Vlad Niculae Vlad Niculae has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2019; often with [André F. T. Martins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andre-f-t-martins/), [Claire Cardie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-cardie/), [Joonsuk Park](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joonsuk-park/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5064085103) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5064085103) · [70 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064085103) · [3,292 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064085103&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-niculae/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 140 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-niculae/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3631](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/37/#star-3631) 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=Vlad+Niculae) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Vlad+Niculae) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Vlad+Niculae) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Vlad+Niculae) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2016–2026 · 40 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 2015–2018 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🔬**Instituto de Telecomunicações** Lisbon · Portugal 2018–2024 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-telecomunicacoes/) · [🎓**University of Bucharest** Bucharest · Romania 2011–2013 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bucharest/) · [🎓**Saarland University** Saarbrücken · Germany 2014–2019 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/) · [🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 2013 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Williams College** Williamstown · United States 2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/williams-college/) · [🔬**Max Planck Institute for Software Systems** Saarbrücken · Germany 2014 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-institute-for-software-systems/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Philosophy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/philosophy/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Adaptively Sparse Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/correia-2019-adaptively-sparse-transformers/) · [**2017** 1 paper Argument Mining with Structured SVMs and RNNs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niculae-2017-argument-mining-structured-svms-rnns/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Adaptively Sparse Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/correia-2019-adaptively-sparse-transformers/)** *(2019 · 271 citations)* Standard Transformers normalize every attention head with softmax, so each head spreads at least some weight over all context tokens. 2. **[Argument Mining with Structured SVMs and RNNs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niculae-2017-argument-mining-structured-svms-rnns/)** *(2017 · 160 citations)* The paper addresses argument mining when support relations between argumentative units do not have to form trees. ## All works 6 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. **[Adaptively Sparse Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/correia-2019-adaptively-sparse-transformers/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Gonçalo M. Correia, Vlad Niculae, André F. T. Martins*2019 · 271 citations* 2. **[Argument Mining with Structured SVMs and RNNs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niculae-2017-argument-mining-structured-svms-rnns/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Vlad Niculae, Joonsuk Park, Claire Cardie*2017 · 160 citations* 3. **[Context-Aware or Context-Insensitive? Assessing LLMs' Performance in Document-Level Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2025.mtsummit-1.10/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XX: Volume 1 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Wafaa Mohammed, Vlad Niculae*2025 · 4 citations* 4. **[Unlocking Latent Discourse Translation in LLMs Through Quality-Aware Decoding](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.220/) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Wafaa Mohammed, Vlad Niculae, Chrysoula Zerva*2026 · 1 citation* 5. **[How Far Can Machine Translation Quality Take You? Extrinsic Discourse Evaluation in Goal-Oriented Setups](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16596) arXiv:2606.16596 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Wafaa Mohammed, Kata Naszadi, Vlad Niculae*2026* 6. **[Representation Collapse in Machine Translation Through the Lens of Angular Dispersion](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.126/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Evgeniia Tokarchuk et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [André F. T. Martins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andre-f-t-martins/) - [Claire Cardie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-cardie/) - [Joonsuk Park](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joonsuk-park/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2017/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2019/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026 - Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XX: Volume 1 - Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 140 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-niculae/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026