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# IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Research institute [Yorktown Heights](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/new-york-city/), United Statesin the agglomeration of [New York](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/new-york-city/)

- [Website](http://research.ibm.com/labs/watson/index.shtml)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/0265w5591)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I4210114115)

[**28** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/works/) · [**53** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/authors/) · [**43,880** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/works/) · [**13,447** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/works/)

## People (53)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (21)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Salim Roukos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salim-roukos/) — 1989–2014 on 56 papers · 4 papers here · 34,142 citations
- [Stephen A. Della Pietra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-a-della-pietra/) — 1990–1994 on 9 papers · 3 papers here · 12,053 citations
- [Vincent J. Della Pietra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vincent-j-della-pietra/) — 1990–1994 on 8 papers · 3 papers here · 12,053 citations
- [Robert L. Mercer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-l-mercer/) — 1977–1994 on 19 papers · 3 papers here · 9,416 citations
- [Peter F. Brown](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-f-brown/) — 1987–2003 on 19 papers · 3 papers here · 9,077 citations
- [Abe Ittycheriah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abe-ittycheriah/) — 2003–2016 on 5 papers · 2 papers here · 7,323 citations
- [John D. Lafferty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-d-lafferty/) — 1990–1994 on 13 papers · 2 papers here · 4,823 citations
- [Bowen Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-zhou/) — 2002–2018 on 51 papers · 7 papers here · 7,476 citations
- [Bing Xiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-xiang/) — 2002–2017 on 20 papers · 6 papers here · 4,822 citations
- [Zhiguo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiguo-wang/) — 2016–2019 on 9 papers · 6 papers here · 2,398 citations
- [Radu Florian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radu-florian/) — 2003–2020 on 26 papers · 5 papers here · 2,499 citations
- [Christoph Tillmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christoph-tillmann/) — 2003–2014 on 15 papers · 3 papers here · 2,621 citations
- [Jeffrey Sorensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-sorensen/) — 1999–2010 on 15 papers · 5 papers here · 2,140 citations
- [Adwait Ratnaparkhi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adwait-ratnaparkhi/) — 1994–2002 on 5 papers · 4 papers here · 2,523 citations
- [Mo Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mo-yu/) — 2016–2021 on 14 papers · 5 papers here · 3,292 citations
- [Hongyan Jing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyan-jing/) — 2003–2006 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 1,897 citations
- [Xiaoqiang Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoqiang-luo/) — 2001–2012 on 14 papers · 5 papers here · 1,631 citations
- [Wael Hamza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wael-hamza/) — 2003–2018 on 7 papers · 2 papers here · 1,050 citations
- [Haitao Mi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitao-mi/) — 2013–2016 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 1,466 citations
- [Imed Zitouni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imed-zitouni/) — 2005–2014 on 26 papers · 2 papers here · 415 citations
- [Michael McCord](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-mccord/) — 1985–2012 on 21 papers · 2 papers here · 232 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (32)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Yu Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-cheng/) — 2014–2019 on 20 papers · 5 papers here · 6,213 citations
- [Tong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-zhang/) — 1999–2006 on 55 papers · 5 papers here · 3,158 citations
- [Georgiana Dinu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georgiana-dinu/) — 2016–2017 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 3,015 citations
- [Miguel Ballesteros](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miguel-ballesteros/) — 2016–2018 on 8 papers · 8 papers here · 3,161 citations
- [Shalom Lappin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shalom-lappin/) — 1990–1992 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 1,217 citations
- [Yuval Marton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuval-marton/) — 2011 on 4 papers · 5 papers here · 980 citations
- [Philip S. Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philip-s-yu/) — 1980–2014 on 455 papers · 4 papers here · 16,422 citations
- [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/) — 2008–2012 on 5 papers · 11 papers here · 11,023 citations
- [Martin Wattenberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-wattenberg/) — 2007–2008 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 10,512 citations
- [Fernanda Viegas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fernanda-viegas/) — 2007–2008 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 10,264 citations
- [Kenneth W. Church](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenneth-w-church/) — 2012–2013 on 5 papers · 3 papers here · 7,911 citations
- [Sara Rosenthal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-rosenthal/) — 2018–2025 on 5 papers · 8 papers here · 5,999 citations
- [Andrew Senior](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-senior/) — 1995–2011 on 50 papers · 2 papers here · 5,674 citations
- [Ashish Sabharwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-sabharwal/) — 2011–2014 on 29 papers · 9 papers here · 5,510 citations
- [Ramesh Nallapati](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramesh-nallapati/) — 2013–2015 on 4 papers · 4 papers here · 3,309 citations
- [Martin Chodorow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-chodorow/) — 1985–1991 on 4 papers · 6 papers here · 1,797 citations
- [Abhishek Kumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhishek-kumar/) — 2015–2018 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 1,693 citations
- [Stanley F. Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stanley-f-chen/) — 2001–2015 on 18 papers · 2 papers here · 1,508 citations
- [Daniel M. Bikel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-m-bikel/) — 2007–2008 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 1,226 citations
- [Meng Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-jiang/) — 2019–2021 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 1,069 citations
- [Mark Gerstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-gerstein/) — 2002–2007 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 1,030 citations
- [Hongxia Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongxia-yang/) — 2011–2014 on 7 papers · 2 papers here · 966 citations
- [Pin-Yu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pin-yu-chen/) — current · 2017–2026 on 141 papers · 2 papers here · 912 citations
- [Inkit Padhi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/inkit-padhi/) — 2018–2025 on 10 papers · 2 papers here · 872 citations
- [Songfang Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/songfang-huang/) — 2009–2011 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 858 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 53 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/authors/)

## Works in our library (28)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papineni-2002-bleu-method-automatic-evaluation-machine/) — Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, et al. · 2002 · 32,065 citations
- [Self-critical Sequence Training for Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rennie-2016-self-critical-sequence-training-image/) — Steven J. Rennie, Etienne Marcheret, Youssef Mroueh, et al. · 2016 · 2,367 citations
- [Dependency Tree Kernels for Relation Extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/culotta-2004-dependency-tree-kernels-relation-extraction/) — Aron Culotta, Jeffrey Sorensen · 2004 · 998 citations
- [Bilateral Multi-Perspective Matching for Natural Language Sentences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2017-bilateral-multi-perspective-matching-natural/) — Zhiguo Wang, Wael Hamza, Radu Florian · 2017 · 923 citations
- [On Coreference Resolution Performance Metrics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2005-coreference-resolution-performance-metrics/) — Xiaoqiang Luo · 2005 · 855 citations
- [Aligning Sentences in Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1991-aligning-sentences-parallel-corpora/) — Peter F. Brown, Jennifer C. Lai, Robert L. Mercer · 1991 · 657 citations
- [Classifying Relations by Ranking with Convolutional Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/santos-2015-classifying-relations-ranking-convolutional-neural/) — Cícero dos Santos, Bing Xiang, Bowen Zhou · 2015 · 613 citations
- [Named Entity Recognition through Classifier Combination](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/florian-2003-named-entity-recognition-through-classifier/) — Radu Florian, Abe Ittycheriah, Hongyan Jing, et al. · 2003 · 484 citations
- [Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1991-word-sense-disambiguation-statistical-methods/) — Peter F. Brown, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, et al. · 1991 · 464 citations
- [Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2003-discourse-segmentation-multi-party-conversation/) — Michel Galley, Kathleen R. McKeown, Eric Fosler-Lussier, et al. · 2003 · 455 citations
- [A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tillmann-2004-unigram-orientation-model-statistical-machine/) — Christoph Tillmann · 2004 · 430 citations
- [An Estimate of an Upper Bound for the Entropy of English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1992-estimate-upper-bound-entropy-english/) — Peter F. Brown, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, et al. · 1992 · 411 citations
- [Beam Search Strategies for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2017-beam-search-strategies-neural-machine/) — Markus Freitag, Yaser Al-Onaizan · 2017 · 386 citations
- [Zero-Resource Translation with Multi-Lingual Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/firat-2016-zero-resource-translation-multi-lingual/) — Orhan Firat, Baskaran Sankaran, Yaser Al-onaizan, et al. · 2016 · 350 citations
- [A Statistical Approach to Language Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brown-1988-statistical-approach-language-translation/) — P. Brown, J. Cocke, S. Della Pietra, et al. · 1988 · 339 citations
- [A Graph-to-Sequence Model for AMR-to-Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2018-graph-sequence-model-amr-text/) — Linfeng Song, Yue Zhang, Zhiguo Wang, et al. · 2018 · 329 citations
- [emrQA: A Large Corpus for Question Answering on Electronic Medical Records](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pampari-2018-emrqa-large-corpus-question-answering/) — Anusri Pampari, Preethi Raghavan, Jennifer Liang, et al. · 2018 · 285 citations
- [A Maximum Entropy Model for Prepositional Phrase Attachment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ratnaparkhi-1994-maximum-entropy-model-prepositional-phrase/) — Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Jeff Reynar, Salim Roukos · 1994 · 276 citations
- [Fighting Offensive Language on Social Media with Unsupervised Text Style Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/santos-2018-fighting-offensive-language-social-media/) — Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Igor Melnyk, Inkit Padhi · 2018 · 209 citations
- [Maximum Entropy Based Restoration of Arabic Diacritics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zitouni-2006-maximum-entropy-based-restoration-arabic/) — Imed Zitouni, Jeffrey S. Sorensen, Ruhi Sarikaya · 2006 · 196 citations
- [Semantic Neural Machine Translation Using AMR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2019-semantic-neural-machine-translation-amr/) — Linfeng Song, Daniel Gildea, Yue Zhang, et al. · 2019 · 159 citations
- [Computation of the Probability of Initial Substring Generation by Stochastic Context-Free Grammars](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jelinek-1991-computation-probability-initial-substring-generation/) — Frederick Jelinek, John D. Lafferty · 1991 · 150 citations
- [Disambiguating Prepositional Phrase Attachments by Using On-Line Dictionary Definitions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jensen-1987-disambiguating-prepositional-phrase-attachments-line/) — Karen Jensen, Jean-Louis Binot · 1987 · 116 citations
- [Anaphora Resolution in Slot Grammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lappin-1990-anaphora-resolution-slot-grammar/) — Shalom Lappin, Michael McCord · 1990 · 114 citations
- [AMR-to-text Generation with Synchronous Node Replacement Grammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2017-amr-text-generation-synchronous-node/) — Linfeng Song, Xiaochang Peng, Yue Zhang, et al. · 2017 · 108 citations

[See all 28 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/works/)

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Machine translation 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Coreference resolution 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Text generation 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Named entity recognition 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Discourse analysis 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Word sense disambiguation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Dependency parsing 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Question answering 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Information extraction 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Sentiment & emotion 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Morphology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/)

**1 more topics**

[Vision & language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

Fields: [Natural language processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) (21) · [Linguistics & languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) (10) · [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) (10)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[IBM 19](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) [University of Rochester 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-rochester/) [Columbia University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) [Singapore University of Technology and Design 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/singapore-university-of-technology-and-design/) [New York University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) [University of Massachusetts Amherst 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) [Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) [Westlake University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/westlake-university/) [Xiamen University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xiamen-university/) [Middle East Technical University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/middle-east-technical-university/)

## Parent and units

**Part of** [IBM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/)

**Units** [IBM Research - Almaden](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-almaden/) [IBM Research - Australia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-australia/) [IBM Research - Ireland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-ireland/) [IBM Research - India](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-india/) [IBM Research - Haifa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-haifa/) [IBM Research - Brazil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-brazil/) IBM Research - Africa IBM Research - Austin IBM Research - Tokyo IBM Research - United Kingdom IBM Research - Zurich

From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked.

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.