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# Idiap Research Institute

Research institute · Institut de recherche Idiap Martigny-Combe, [Switzerland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/switzerland/)

- [Website](https://www.idiap.ch/)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/05932h694)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I7495430)

[**17** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/#works) · [**23** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/#authors) · [**1,669** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/#works) · [**698** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/#works)

## People (23)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Idiap Research Institute: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (8)

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

- [James Henderson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-henderson/) — current · 2017–2025 on 59 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 6 papers here · 1,064 citations
- [André Freitas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andre-freitas/) — current · 2020–2026 on 83 papers · employment (ORCID) · 2 papers here · 638 citations
- [Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rabeeh-karimi-mahabadi/) — 2019–2024 on 9 papers · 2 papers here · 559 citations
- [Thomas Meyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-meyer/) — current · 2011–2014 on 19 papers · 6 papers here · 379 citations
- [Nikolaos Pappas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolaos-pappas/) — 2012–2020 on 32 papers · 2 papers here · 596 citations
- [Lonneke van der Plas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/) — current · 2021–2026 on 14 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 6 papers here · 619 citations
- [Lesly Miculicich Werlen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lesly-miculicich-werlen/) — current · 2017–2018 on 5 papers · 2 papers here · 110 citations
- [Alireza Mohammadshahi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alireza-mohammadshahi/) — 2019–2023 on 8 papers · 3 papers here · 100 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (15)**

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

- [Claudia Borg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/) — 2018–2020 on 2 papers · 8 papers here · 295 citations
- [David Grangier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-grangier/) — 2005–2008 on 10 papers · 16 papers here · 14,710 citations
- [Ondřej Bojar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ondrej-bojar/) — 2019 on 2 papers · 27 papers here · 13,549 citations
- [Marcello Federico](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcello-federico/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 12 papers here · 8,161 citations
- [Ronan Collobert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronan-collobert/) — 2000–2019 on 36 papers · 3 papers here · 7,268 citations
- [Samy Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samy-bengio/) — 1999–2007 on 112 papers · 4 papers here · 3,811 citations
- [Brian Thompson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-thompson/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 8 papers here · 1,551 citations
- [Adrià de Gispert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adria-de-gispert/) — 2023–2025 on 4 papers · 3 papers here · 834 citations
- [Aishwarya Agrawal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-agrawal/) — 2022 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 799 citations
- [Paola Merlo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paola-merlo/) — current · 2019–2026 on 9 papers · 4 papers here · 663 citations
- [Dong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-zhang/) — 2005–2007 on 5 papers · 2 papers here · 587 citations
- [Steve Renals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-renals/) — 2007–2008 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 305 citations
- [Sandrine Zufferey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandrine-zufferey/) — current · on 1 paper · 4 papers here · 160 citations
- [Christophe Cerisara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christophe-cerisara/) — current · 2025–2026 on 3 papers · 3 papers here · 123 citations
- [Giuseppe Samo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-samo/) — current · 2024–2026 on 18 papers · 2 papers here · 13 citations

## Works in our library (17)

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

- [Document-Level Neural Machine Translation with Hierarchical Attention Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miculicich-2018-document-level-neural-machine-translation/) — Lesly Miculicich, Dhananjay Ram, Nikolaos Pappas, et al. · 2018 · 411 citations
- [Parameter-efficient Multi-task Fine-tuning for Transformers via Shared Hypernetworks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahabadi-2021-parameter-efficient-multi-task-fine/) — Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi, Sebastian Ruder, Mostafa Dehghani, et al. · 2021 · 248 citations
- [Towards an ISO Standard for Dialogue Act Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bunt-2010-iso-standard-dialogue-act-annotation/) — Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jean Carletta, et al. · 2010 · 210 citations
- [ISO 24617-2: A semantically-based standard for dialogue annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bunt-2012-iso-24617-2-semantically-based/) — Harry Bunt, Jan Alexandersson, Jae-Woong Choe, et al. · 2012 · 182 citations
- [End-to-End Bias Mitigation by Modelling Biases in Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahabadi-2020-end-end-bias-mitigation-modelling/) — Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi, Yonatan Belinkov, James Henderson · 2020 · 107 citations
- [Using Sense-labeled Discourse Connectives for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meyer-2012-sense-labeled-discourse-connectives-statistical/) — Thomas Meyer, Andrei Popescu-Belis · 2012 · 93 citations
- [Validation of an Automatic Metric for the Accuracy of Pronoun Translation (APT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/werlen-2017-validation-automatic-metric-accuracy-pronoun/) — Lesly Miculicich Werlen, Andrei Popescu-Belis · 2017 · 86 citations
- [Implicitation of Discourse Connectives in (Machine) Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meyer-2013-implicitation-discourse-connectives-machine-translation/) — Thomas Meyer, Bonnie Webber · 2013 · 80 citations
- [Annotating the meaning of discourse connectives by looking at their translation: The translation-spotting technique](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cartoni-2013-annotating-meaning-discourse-connectives-looking/) — Bruno Cartoni, Sandrine Zufferey, Thomas Meyer · 2013 · 69 citations
- [Machine Translation of Labeled Discourse Connectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meyer-2012-machine-translation-labeled-discourse-connectives/) — Thomas Meyer, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Najeh Hajlaoui, et al. · 2012 · 55 citations
- [Recursive Non-Autoregressive Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Dependency Parsing with Iterative Refinement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammadshahi-2021-recursive-non-autoregressive-graph-graph/) — Alireza Mohammadshahi, James Henderson · 2021 · 26 citations
- [Machine Translation with Many Manually Labeled Discourse Connectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meyer-2013-machine-translation-many-manually-labeled/) — Thomas Meyer, Lucie Poláková · 2013 · 24 citations
- [Using Coreference Links to Improve Spanish-to-English Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/werlen-2017-coreference-links-improve-spanish-english/) — Lesly Miculicich Werlen, Andrei Popescu-Belis · 2017 · 24 citations
- [Graph-to-Graph Transformer for Transition-based Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammadshahi-2020-graph-graph-transformer-transition-based/) — Alireza Mohammadshahi, James Henderson · 2020 · 23 citations
- [MASRI-HEADSET: A Maltese Corpus for Speech Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mena-2020-masri-headset-maltese-corpus-speech/) — Carlos Daniel Hernandez Mena, Albert Gatt, Andrea DeMarco, et al. · 2020 · 16 citations
- [UM-DFKI Maltese Speech Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/williams-2023-um-dfki-maltese-speech-translation/) — Aiden Williams, Kurt Abela, Rishu Kumar, et al. · 2023 · 11 citations
- [The DCU-EPFL Enhanced Dependency Parser at the IWPT 2021 Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barry-2021-dcu-epfl-enhanced-dependency-parser/) — James Barry, Alireza Mohammadshahi, Joachim Wagner, et al. · 2021 · 4 citations

## 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/) · [Discourse analysis (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Dependency parsing (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Dialogue systems (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech & spoken language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Universal Dependencies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/)

## Fields

[Linguistics & languages (13)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Machine translation (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [Natural language processing (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/)

## Collaborates with

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

[École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) [German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/german-research-centre-for-artificial-intelligence/) [Tilburg University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tilburg-university/) [University of Geneva 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/) [National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-advanced-industrial-science-and-technology/) [University of Malta 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-malta/) [Google 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Carnegie Mellon University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) [Harvard University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) [Charles University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) [Dublin City University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dublin-city-university/)

## Parent and units

**Related** [École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) [University of Geneva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/)

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 Idiap Research Institute; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.