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# RWTH Aachen University

University · RWTH [Aachen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/aachen/), [Germany](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/germany/)in the agglomeration of [Heerlen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/aachen/)

- [Website](https://www.rwth-aachen.de/)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/04xfq0f34)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I887968799)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273263)

[**15** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rwth-aachen-university/#works) · [**34** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rwth-aachen-university/#authors) · [**4,501** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rwth-aachen-university/#works) · [**1,542** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rwth-aachen-university/#works)

## People (34)

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

### Core (11)

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

- [Hermann Ney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hermann-ney/) — current · 1994–2026 on 763 papers · 13 papers here · 13,687 citations
- [Franz Josef Och](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franz-josef-och/) — 1999–2003 on 18 papers · 11 papers here · 23,468 citations
- [Christoph Tillmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christoph-tillmann/) — 1996–2003 on 11 papers · 3 papers here · 2,621 citations
- [Maja Popović](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maja-popovic/) — 2004–2011 on 15 papers · education (ORCID) · 7 papers here · 4,207 citations
- [Stephan Vogel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephan-vogel/) — 1996–2001 on 9 papers · 8 papers here · 3,083 citations
- [Jan-Thorsten Peter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-thorsten-peter/) — 2008–2018 on 18 papers · 2 papers here · 1,155 citations
- [Gregor Leusch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregor-leusch/) — 2000–2011 on 15 papers · 3 papers here · 911 citations
- [Sonja Nießen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sonja-niessen/) — 1998–2004 on 8 papers · 2 papers here · 582 citations
- [David Vilar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-vilar/) — 2004–2014 on 20 papers · 3 papers here · 1,063 citations
- [Saab Mansour](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saab-mansour/) — 2009–2017 on 16 papers · 3 papers here · 437 citations
- [Elma Kerz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elma-kerz/) — 2009–2024 on 49 papers · education (Wikidata) · employment (Wikidata) · 3 papers here · 84 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (23)**

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

- [Matthias Huck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthias-huck/) — 2010–2014 on 15 papers · 6 papers here · 4,366 citations
- [Yu Qiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-qiao/) — 2018–2022 on 8 papers · 9 papers here · 5,206 citations
- [Lukasz Kaiser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lukasz-kaiser/) — 2005–2012 on 16 papers · education (Wikidata) · 8 papers here · 51,679 citations
- [Max Welling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/max-welling/) — 2016 on 8 papers · 2 papers here · 23,800 citations
- [Patrick von Platen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-von-platen/) — 2019–2020 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 16,847 citations
- [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) — 2016 on 2 papers · 11 papers here · 6,882 citations
- [Markus Freitag](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-freitag/) — 2010–2015 on 11 papers · 24 papers here · 6,541 citations
- [Wolfgang Macherey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-macherey/) — 1999–2006 on 13 papers · 8 papers here · 5,906 citations
- [Yifeng Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifeng-lu/) — 2016 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 5,386 citations
- [Xiang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-li/) — 2007–2019 on 3 papers · 7 papers here · 4,487 citations
- [Yao Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-lu/) — 2021 on 3 papers · 3 papers here · 2,612 citations
- [Jingjing Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingjing-xu/) — 2021–2025 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 2,251 citations
- [Juri Ganitkevitch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juri-ganitkevitch/) — 2008–2010 on 4 papers · 3 papers here · 2,140 citations
- [Lucas Beyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-beyer/) — 2013–2018 on 10 papers · education (Wikidata) · 3 papers here · 1,986 citations
- [Christian Buck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christian-buck/) — 2008–2009 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 1,716 citations
- [Ilia Kulikov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ilia-kulikov/) — 2017 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 1,348 citations
- [Gerhard Weikum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gerhard-weikum/) — 2008 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 1,327 citations
- [Chuan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuan-wang/) — 2008–2013 on 21 papers · 4 papers here · 868 citations
- [Arkaitz Zubiaga](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arkaitz-zubiaga/) — 1997 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 742 citations
- [Keno K. Bressem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keno-k-bressem/) — 2023–2024 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 292 citations
- [Daniel Wiechmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-wiechmann/) — 2011–2013 on 4 papers · 3 papers here · 84 citations
- [Wolfgang Nejdl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-nejdl/) — 1993–2013 on 11 papers · 5 papers here · 17 citations
- [Nick Rossenbach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nick-rossenbach/) — current · 2017–2026 on 14 papers · 2 papers here · 5 citations

## Works in our library (15)

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

- [Improved Statistical Alignment Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-2000-improved-statistical-alignment-models/) — Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney · 2000 · 1,467 citations
- [An Evaluation Tool for Machine Translation: Fast Evaluation for MT Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niessen-2000-evaluation-tool-machine-translation-fast/) — Sonja Nießen, Franz Josef Och, Gregor Leusch, et al. · 2000 · 366 citations
- [Statistical Approaches to Computer-Assisted Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrachina-2009-statistical-approaches-computer-assisted-translation/) — Sergio Barrachina, Oliver Bender, Francisco Casacuberta, et al. · 2008 · 313 citations
- [A Comparison of Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-2000-comparison-alignment-models-statistical-machine/) — Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney · 2000 · 300 citations
- [An Efficient Method for Determining Bilingual Word Classes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/och-1999-efficient-method-determining-bilingual-word/) — Franz Josef Och · 1999 · 288 citations
- [Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zens-2004-improvements-phrase-based-statistical-machine/) — Richard Zens, Hermann Ney · 2004 · 284 citations
- [A Statistical Parser for Czech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-1999-statistical-parser-czech/) — Michael Collins, Jan Hajic, Lance Ramshaw, et al. · 1999 · 280 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
- [CharacTer: Translation Edit Rate on Character Level](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2016-character-translation-edit-rate-character/) — Weiyue Wang, Jan-Thorsten Peter, Hendrik Rosendahl, et al. · 2016 · 214 citations
- [Statistical Machine Translation with Scarce Resources Using Morpho-syntactic Information](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niessen-2004-statistical-machine-translation-scarce-resources/) — Sonja Nießen, Hermann Ney · 2004 · 197 citations
- [CDER: Efficient MT Evaluation Using Block Movements](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leusch-2006-cder-efficient-mt-evaluation-block/) — Gregor Leusch, Nicola Ueffing, Hermann Ney · 2006 · 171 citations
- [Joshua: An Open Source Toolkit for Parsing-Based Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2009-joshua-open-source-toolkit-parsing/) — Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, et al. · 2009 · 163 citations
- [Evaluating Machine Translation Output with Automatic Sentence Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/matusov-2005-evaluating-machine-translation-output-automatic/) — Evgeny Matusov, Gregor Leusch, Oliver Bender, et al. · 2005 · 147 citations
- [Morpho-syntactic Information for Automatic Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/popovic-2006-morpho-syntactic-information-automatic-error/) — Maja Popović, Adrià de Gispert, Deepa Gupta, et al. · 2006 · 49 citations
- [Becoming Linguistically Mature: Modeling English and German Children's Writing Development Across School Grades](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kerz-2020-becoming-linguistically-mature-modeling-english/) — Elma Kerz, Yu Qiao, Daniel Wiechmann, et al. · 2020 · 27 citations

## Topics

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

[Machine translation (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

## Fields

[Machine translation (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [Natural language processing (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Linguistics & languages (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Mathematics & statistics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Education (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/education/)

## Collaborates with

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

[Johns Hopkins University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) [University of Amsterdam 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) [University of Maryland, College Park 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) [Charles University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) [Universitat Politècnica de València 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-politecnica-de-valencia/) [University of Minnesota 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) [Google 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Stanford University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [University of California, Berkeley 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) [University of Washington 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) [University of Oxford 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) [Carnegie Mellon University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/)

## Parent and units

**Related** Bonn Aachen International Center for Information Technology Ernst Ruska Centre Jülich Aachen Research Alliance Universitätsklinikum Aachen

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