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# University of Alberta

University [Edmonton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/edmonton/), [Canada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/canada/)in the agglomeration of [Edmonton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/edmonton/)

- [Website](https://www.ualberta.ca)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/0160cpw27)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I154425047)

[**16** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/#works) · [**30** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/#authors) · [**2,099** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/#works) · [**843** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/#works)

## People (30)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at University of Alberta: 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.

- [Dale Schuurmans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dale-schuurmans/) — current · 2004–2026 on 176 papers · 4 papers here · 14,959 citations
- [Colin Cherry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-cherry/) — 2003–2016 on 22 papers · 16 papers here · 8,784 citations
- [Nouha Dziri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouha-dziri/) — 2018–2023 on 11 papers · 8 papers here · 2,598 citations
- [Lili Mou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lili-mou/) — current · 2019–2026 on 55 papers · 3 papers here · 2,705 citations
- [Mohammad Salameh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-salameh/) — 2012–2023 on 13 papers · 2 papers here · 2,192 citations
- [Patrick Pantel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-pantel/) — 2000–2003 on 12 papers · 4 papers here · 2,105 citations
- [Davood Rafiei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/davood-rafiei/) — current · 2000–2026 on 112 papers · 2 papers here · 631 citations
- [Shane Bergsma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-bergsma/) — 2005–2010 on 18 papers · 2 papers here · 352 citations
- [Ehsan Kamalloo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsan-kamalloo/) — 2018–2023 on 12 papers · 2 papers here · 536 citations
- [Grzegorz Kondrak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/grzegorz-kondrak/) — current · 1994–2026 on 107 papers · 2 papers here · 341 citations
- [Antti Arppe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antti-arppe/) — current · 2013–2026 on 42 papers · 3 papers here · 98 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (19)**

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

- [Saif Mohammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saif-mohammad/) — 2015–2024 on 2 papers · 17 papers here · 11,307 citations
- [Dekang Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekang-lin/) — 1990–2013 on 26 papers · 4 papers here · 3,151 citations
- [Garrett Nicolai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/garrett-nicolai/) — 2013–2018 on 14 papers · 3 papers here · 342 citations
- [Yoshua Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshua-bengio/) — 2021 on 2 papers · 23 papers here · 99,938 citations
- [Yue Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-cao/) — 2021–2022 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 35,639 citations
- [Ryan Kiros](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-kiros/) — 2012–2014 on 8 papers · 3 papers here · 12,415 citations
- [Hao Tian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-tian/) — 2015–2022 on 41 papers · 5 papers here · 4,408 citations
- [Yao Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-lu/) — 2018–2019 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 2,612 citations
- [Joel Veness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-veness/) — 2011–2021 on 13 papers · 2 papers here · 1,677 citations
- [Yi Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-liu/) — 2019–2025 on 4 papers · 4 papers here · 1,599 citations
- [Hao Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-yu/) — 2019–2023 on 44 papers · 2 papers here · 1,433 citations
- [Yaojie Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yaojie-lu/) — 2014–2016 on 7 papers · 3 papers here · 907 citations
- [Yuan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuan-li/) — 1989–2011 on 26 papers · 2 papers here · 838 citations
- [Mehdi Rezagholizadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehdi-rezagholizadeh/) — 2021–2022 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 723 citations
- [Lihong Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lihong-li/) — 2003–2019 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 662 citations
- [Hui Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hui-wang/) — 2008–2022 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 466 citations
- [Ashraf Elnagar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashraf-elnagar/) — 1991–2003 on 7 papers · 3 papers here · 194 citations
- [Lenhart Schubert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lenhart-schubert/) — 1974–2018 on 19 papers · 2 papers here · 85 citations
- [John Prado](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-prado/) — current · 2026 on 1 paper · 2 papers here

## Works in our library (16)

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

- [Dependency Treelet Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/quirk-2005-dependency-treelet-translation-syntactically-informed/) — Chris Quirk, Arul Menezes, Colin Cherry · 2005 · 549 citations
- [A Systematic Comparison of Smoothing Techniques for Sentence-Level BLEU](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2014-systematic-comparison-smoothing-techniques-sentence/) — Boxing Chen, Colin Cherry · 2014 · 281 citations
- [Applying Many-to-Many Alignments and Hidden Markov Models to Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiampojamarn-2007-applying-many-many-alignments-hidden/) — Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Grzegorz Kondrak, Tarek Sherif · 2007 · 274 citations
- [Evaluating Open-Domain Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kamalloo-2023-evaluating-open-domain-question-answering/) — Ehsan Kamalloo, Nouha Dziri, Charles Clarke, et al. · 2023 · 233 citations
- [On the Origin of Hallucinations in Conversational Models: Is it the Datasets or the Models?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dziri-2022-origin-hallucinations-conversational-models-is/) — Nouha Dziri, Sivan Milton, Mo Yu, et al. · 2022 · 205 citations
- [Bootstrapping Path-Based Pronoun Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bergsma-2006-bootstrapping-path-based-pronoun-resolution/) — Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin · 2006 · 193 citations
- [SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chu-2025-sft-memorizes-rl-generalizes-comparative/) — Tianzhe Chu, Yuexiang Zhai, Jihan Yang, et al. · 2025 · 151 citations
- [An Unsupervised Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment using Contextually Similar Words](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pantel-2000-unsupervised-approach-prepositional-phrase-attachment/) — Patrick Pantel, Dekang Lin · 2000 · 103 citations
- [An Expectation Maximization Approach to Pronoun Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cherry-2005-expectation-maximization-approach-pronoun-resolution/) — Colin Cherry, Shane Bergsma · 2005 · 49 citations
- [BabyFST - Towards a Finite-State Based Computational Model of Ancient Babylonian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sahala-2020-babyfst-finite-state-based-computational/) — Aleksi Sahala, Miikka Silfverberg, Antti Arppe, et al. · 2020 · 23 citations
- [Evaluating Emotion Arcs Across Languages: Bridging the Global Divide in Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teodorescu-2023-evaluating-emotion-arcs-across-languages/) — Daniela Teodorescu, Saif Mohammad · 2023 · 20 citations
- [Automated Phonological Transcription of Akkadian Cuneiform Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sahala-2020-automated-phonological-transcription-akkadian-cuneiform/) — Aleksi Sahala, Miikka Silfverberg, Antti Arppe, et al. · 2020 · 10 citations
- [Automatic Generation of English Respellings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hauer-2013-automatic-generation-english-respellings/) — Bradley Hauer, Grzegorz Kondrak · 2013 · 6 citations
- [Theorizing in the Absence of a Theory:The Case of the Aramaic Targums to the Pentateuch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lasair-2009-theorizing-absence-theory-case-aramaic/) — Simon Lasair · 2009 · 2 citations
- [Completing and Validating the Re-Aligned Switchboard Dialog Act Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2026-completing-validating-re-aligned-switchboard/) — Run Chen, Zihao Tao, John Prado, et al. · 2026
- [Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tao-2026-disentangling-annotator-skill-verifier-strictness/) — Zihao Tao, John A. Prado, Ignazio Steven LaManna, et al. · 2026

## Topics

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

[Dialogue systems (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Akkadian and cuneiform NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/akkadian-cuneiform-nlp/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/)

## Fields

[Linguistics & languages (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Natural language processing (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [AI & machine learning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/ai/)

## Collaborates with

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

[Google 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Columbia University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) [National Research Council Canada 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-research-council-canada/) [University of Helsinki 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-helsinki/) [University of California, Berkeley 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) [Microsoft 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [New York University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) [Google DeepMind 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) [Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) [Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) [University of British Columbia 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) [University of Waterloo 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/)

## Parent and units

**Units** National Institute for Nanotechnology

**Related** Cross Cancer Institute University of Alberta Hospital

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