--- title: "Instituto Superior Técnico — research, people and papers" description: "Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal): 24 works on the Elamur Research site, 15 people with a page, 3,772 citations; its topics, units and the…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/instituto-superior-tecnico/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/instituto-superior-tecnico/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [institutions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/orgs/) / [universities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/) / Instituto Superior Técnico # Instituto Superior Técnico University · IST [Lisbon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/lisbon/), [Portugal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/portugal/)in the agglomeration of [Lisbon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/lisbon/) - [Website](https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt) - [ROR](https://ror.org/03db2by73) - [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I4387152517) - [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1636837) [**24** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/instituto-superior-tecnico/#works) · [**24** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/instituto-superior-tecnico/#authors) · [**3,772** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/instituto-superior-tecnico/#works) · [**2,880** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/instituto-superior-tecnico/#works) ## People (24) Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Instituto Superior Técnico: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations. ### Core (15) Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work. - [Fernando Pereira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fernando-pereira/) — 1990–2024 on 251 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 10 papers here · 10,442 citations - [André F. T. Martins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andre-f-t-martins/) — current · 2006–2026 on 84 papers · education (Wikidata) · employment (ORCID) · 31 papers here · 6,914 citations - [Ricardo Rei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ricardo-rei/) — 2021–2025 on 28 papers · education (ORCID) · employment (ORCID) · 17 papers here · 5,097 citations - [Nuno M. Guerreiro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nuno-m-guerreiro/) — 2019–2023 on 6 papers · 8 papers here · 1,901 citations - [Chrysoula Zerva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chrysoula-zerva/) — current · 2021–2026 on 24 papers · employment (ORCID) · 8 papers here · 1,665 citations - [Luisa Coheur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luisa-coheur/) — current · 2008–2026 on 84 papers · 4 papers here · 1,266 citations - [Duarte Alves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/duarte-alves/) — current · 2022–2026 on 5 papers · 3 papers here · 868 citations - [Taisiya Glushkova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taisiya-glushkova/) — current · 2021–2023 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 919 citations - [Patrick Fernandes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-fernandes/) — current · 2021–2026 on 27 papers · 7 papers here · 920 citations - [Marcos Treviso](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcos-treviso/) — current · 2021–2026 on 9 papers · 3 papers here · 962 citations - [Isabel Trancoso](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/isabel-trancoso/) — current · 1988–2026 on 114 papers · education (Wikidata) · employment (Wikidata) · 4 papers here · 892 citations - [Duarte M. Alves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/duarte-m-alves/) — current · 2022–2026 on 9 papers · 3 papers here · 740 citations - [Silvio Amir](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/silvio-amir/) — 2015–2017 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 650 citations - [António Farinhas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonio-farinhas/) — 2021–2024 on 12 papers · 2 papers here · 262 citations - [Ben Peters](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-peters/) — 2021–2025 on 5 papers · 2 papers here · 227 citations **Also published with this affiliation (9)** Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work. - [Alan W Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-w-black/) — 2011–2015 on 3 papers · 9 papers here · 3,702 citations - [Alexander Kirillov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-kirillov/) — current · 2003–2026 on 297 papers · 2 papers here · 19,847 citations - [Marco Tagliasacchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-tagliasacchi/) — 2007 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 4,037 citations - [Desmond Elliott](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/desmond-elliott/) — 2023–2024 on 3 papers · 5 papers here · 1,565 citations - [Pedro Domingos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pedro-domingos/) — 1998–1999 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 617 citations - [Jose Pombal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jose-pombal/) — current · 2024–2026 on 3 papers · 3 papers here · 571 citations - [Pedro Henrique Martins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pedro-henrique-martins/) — 2020–2021 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 263 citations - [Nelson Filipe Costa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nelson-filipe-costa/) — 2009–2021 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 14 citations - [Helena Moniz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/helena-moniz/) — 2020–2024 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 8 citations ## Works in our library (24) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). - [COMET-22: Unbabel-IST 2022 Submission for the Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2022-comet-22-unbabel-ist-2022/) — Ricardo Rei, José G. C. de Souza, Duarte Alves, et al. · 2022 · 433 citations - [Modelling Context with User Embeddings for Sarcasm Detection in Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/amir-2016-modelling-context-user-embeddings-sarcasm/) — Silvio Amir, Byron C. Wallace, Hao Lyu, et al. · 2016 · 349 citations - [xCOMET: Transparent Machine Translation Evaluation through Fine-grained Error Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guerreiro-2024-xcomet-transparent-machine-translation-evaluation/) — Nuno M. Guerreiro, Ricardo Rei, Daan van Stigt, et al. · 2024 · 333 citations - [CometKiwi: IST-Unbabel 2022 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2022-cometkiwi-ist-unbabel-2022-submission/) — Ricardo Rei, Marcos Treviso, Nuno M. Guerreiro, et al. · 2022 · 325 citations - [Hallucinations in Large Multilingual Translation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guerreiro-2023-hallucinations-large-multilingual-translation-models/) — Nuno M. Guerreiro, Duarte M. Alves, Jonas Waldendorf, et al. · 2023 · 244 citations - [Humanity's Last Exam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2025-humanity-s-last-exam/) — Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han, et al. · 2025 · 235 citations - [Tower: An Open Multilingual Large Language Model for Translation-Related Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alves-2024-tower-open-multilingual-large-language/) — Duarte M. Alves, Jose Pombal, Nuno M. Guerreiro, et al. · 2024 · 226 citations - [Global MMLU: Understanding and Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Biases in Multilingual Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2025-global-mmlu-understanding-addressing-cultural/) — Shivalika Singh, Angelika Romanou, Clémentine Fourrier, et al. · 2025 · 179 citations - [The Devil Is in the Errors: Leveraging Large Language Models for Fine-grained Machine Translation Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fernandes-2023-devil-is-errors-leveraging-large/) — Patrick Fernandes, Daniel Deutsch, Mara Finkelstein, et al. · 2023 · 156 citations - [Results of WMT23 Metrics Shared Task: Metrics Might Be Guilty but References Are Not Innocent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2023-results-wmt23-metrics-shared-task/) — Markus Freitag, Nitika Mathur, Chi-kiu Lo, et al. · 2023 · 155 citations - [Looking for a Needle in a Haystack: A Comprehensive Study of Hallucinations in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guerreiro-2023-looking-needle-haystack-comprehensive-study/) — Nuno M. Guerreiro, Elena Voita, André Martins · 2023 · 147 citations - [Quality-Aware Decoding for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fernandes-2022-quality-aware-decoding-neural-machine/) — Patrick Fernandes, António Farinhas, Ricardo Rei, et al. · 2022 · 143 citations - [Scaling up CometKiwi: Unbabel-IST 2023 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2023-scaling-up-cometkiwi-unbabel-ist/) — Ricardo Rei, Nuno M. Guerreiro, José Pombal, et al. · 2023 · 135 citations - [EuroLLM: Multilingual Language Models for Europe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martins-2024-eurollm-multilingual-language-models-europe/) — Pedro Henrique Martins, Patrick Fernandes, Joao Alves, et al. · 2024 · 131 citations - [Findings of the WMT 2023 Shared Task on Quality Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blain-2023-findings-wmt-2023-shared-task/) — Frederic Blain, Chrysoula Zerva, Ricardo Rei, et al. · 2023 · 129 citations - [Are LLMs Breaking MT Metrics? Results of the WMT24 Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2024-are-llms-breaking-mt-metrics/) — Markus Freitag, Nitika Mathur, Daniel Deutsch, et al. · 2024 · 106 citations - [Findings of the WMT 2022 Shared Task on Quality Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zerva-2022-findings-wmt-2022-shared-task/) — Chrysoula Zerva, Frédéric Blain, Ricardo Rei, et al. · 2022 · 91 citations - [Are References Really Needed? Unbabel-IST 2021 Submission for the Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2021-are-references-really-needed-unbabel/) — Ricardo Rei, Ana C Farinha, Chrysoula Zerva, et al. · 2021 · 85 citations - [Bridging the Gap: A Survey on Integrating (Human) Feedback for Natural Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fernandes-2023-bridging-gap-survey-integrating-human/) — Patrick Fernandes, Aman Madaan, Emmy Liu, et al. · 2023 · 84 citations - [Transferring Coreference Resolvers with Posterior Regularization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martins-2015-transferring-coreference-resolvers-posterior-regularization/) — André F. T. Martins · 2015 · 35 citations - [Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Chat Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/farajian-2020-findings-wmt-2020-shared-task/) — M. Amin Farajian, António V. Lopes, André F. T. Martins, et al. · 2020 · 29 citations - [Assessing the Role of Context in Chat Translation Evaluation: Is Context Helpful and Under What Conditions?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agrawal-2024-assessing-role-context-chat-translation/) — Sweta Agrawal, Amin Farajian, Patrick Fernandes, et al. · 2024 · 8 citations - [OpenLogos Semantico-Syntactic Knowledge-Rich Bilingual Dictionaries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barreiro-2014-openlogos-semantico-syntactic-knowledge-rich/) — Anabela Barreiro, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, et al. · 2014 · 7 citations - [Fine-Grained Reward Optimization for Machine Translation using Error Severity Mappings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramos-2026-fine-grained-reward-optimization-machine/) — Miguel Moura Ramos, Tomás Almeida, Daniel Vareta, et al. · 2026 · 7 citations ## Topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Machine translation (15)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Fields [Machine translation (13)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [Linguistics & languages (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Natural language processing (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [AI & machine learning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/ai/) · [Mathematics & statistics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) ## Collaborates with Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share. [Instituto de Telecomunicações 20](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-telecomunicacoes/) [University of Lisbon 12](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-lisbon/) [Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento 11](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-engenharia-de-sistemas-e-computadores-investigacao-e/) [Carnegie Mellon University 8](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [Université Paris-Saclay 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-saclay/) [CentraleSupélec 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centralesupelec/) [University of Edinburgh 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) [Google 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Amazon 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) [McGill University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) [German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/german-research-centre-for-artificial-intelligence/) [Tilburg University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tilburg-university/) ## Parent and units **Part of** [University of Lisbon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-lisbon/) **Related** [Instituto de Telecomunicações](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-telecomunicacoes/) 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 Instituto Superior Técnico; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.