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# University of Edinburgh

University [Edinburgh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/edinburgh/), [United Kingdom](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-kingdom/)in the agglomeration of [Edinburgh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/edinburgh/)

- [Website](https://www.ed.ac.uk)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/01nrxwf90)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I98677209)

[**202** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/works/) · [**209** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/authors/) · [**55,753** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/works/) · [**19,147** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/works/)

## People (209)

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

### Core (82)

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

- [Philipp Koehn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philipp-koehn/) — 2005–2019 on 94 papers · 42 papers here · 37,944 citations
- [Mirella Lapata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mirella-lapata/) — current · 2002–2026 on 328 papers · education (Wikidata) · employment (Wikidata) · 27 papers here · 14,560 citations
- [Barry Haddow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barry-haddow/) — current · 2007–2026 on 149 papers · 27 papers here · 10,025 citations
- [Alexandra Birch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexandra-birch/) — current · 2006–2026 on 112 papers · employment (ORCID) · 14 papers here · 7,986 citations
- [Hieu Hoang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-hoang/) — 2006–2018 on 18 papers · 5 papers here · 6,690 citations
- [Shashi Narayan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashi-narayan/) — 2015–2020 on 35 papers · 7 papers here · 6,501 citations
- [Rico Sennrich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rico-sennrich/) — 2014–2024 on 129 papers · 23 papers here · 8,189 citations
- [Kenneth Heafield](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenneth-heafield/) — 2012–2024 on 55 papers · employment (ORCID) · 10 papers here · 6,806 citations
- [Jean Carletta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jean-carletta/) — 1990–2014 on 48 papers · 3 papers here · 5,163 citations
- [Ivan Titov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-titov/) — current · 2017–2026 on 142 papers · 14 papers here · 6,932 citations
- [Biao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/biao-zhang/) — 2019–2024 on 27 papers · 6 papers here · 7,070 citations
- [Bonnie Webber](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-webber/) — current · 1988–2026 on 135 papers · employment (ORCID) · 26 papers here · 4,571 citations
- [Charles Sutton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-sutton/) — 2010–2023 on 56 papers · 2 papers here · 5,877 citations
- [Li Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-dong/) — 2016–2018 on 6 papers · 13 papers here · 8,704 citations
- [Mark Steedman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-steedman/) — current · 1985–2025 on 162 papers · 14 papers here · 3,771 citations
- [Matthias Huck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthias-huck/) — 2013–2020 on 14 papers · 6 papers here · 4,366 citations
- [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/) — 2014–2023 on 21 papers · 9 papers here · 7,887 citations
- [Theresa Wilson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/theresa-wilson/) — current · 2007–2021 on 9 papers · 6 papers here · 7,106 citations
- [Jianpeng Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianpeng-cheng/) — 2016–2019 on 10 papers · 2 papers here · 2,361 citations
- [Walid Magdy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-magdy/) — current · 2017–2026 on 91 papers · employment (ORCID) · 12 papers here · 2,726 citations
- [Trevor Cohn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/trevor-cohn/) — 2006–2010 on 13 papers · 9 papers here · 5,266 citations
- [Ivana Balažević](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivana-balazevic/) — 2018–2021 on 7 papers · 2 papers here · 2,034 citations
- [Nathan Schneider](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-schneider/) — 2015–2016 on 10 papers · 40 papers here · 5,367 citations
- [Sharon Goldwater](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharon-goldwater/) — current · 2007–2026 on 95 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 11 papers here · 2,368 citations
- [Miles Osborne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miles-osborne/) — current · 2000–2021 on 63 papers · 2 papers here · 1,702 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (127)**

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

- [Mike Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mike-lewis/) — 2013–2014 on 7 papers · 21 papers here · 21,972 citations
- [Tom Kwiatkowski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-kwiatkowski/) — 2009–2017 on 5 papers · 11 papers here · 13,028 citations
- [Christian Federmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christian-federmann/) — 2014–2018 on 2 papers · 17 papers here · 8,839 citations
- [Nelson F. Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nelson-f-liu/) — 2020 on 2 papers · 7 papers here · 7,322 citations
- [Phil Blunsom](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phil-blunsom/) — 2008–2009 on 4 papers · 11 papers here · 12,162 citations
- [Tushar Khot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tushar-khot/) — 2022–2023 on 4 papers · 8 papers here · 5,409 citations
- [Ashish Sabharwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-sabharwal/) — 2022–2023 on 3 papers · 9 papers here · 5,510 citations
- [Jason Baldridge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-baldridge/) — 2000–2021 on 13 papers · education (Wikidata) · 8 papers here · 6,422 citations
- [Massimo Poesio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-poesio/) — 1994–2015 on 25 papers · 47 papers here · 6,424 citations
- [Mark Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/) — 2021–2023 on 3 papers · 14 papers here · 9,545 citations
- [Annie Louis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annie-louis/) — 2014–2020 on 12 papers · 5 papers here · 6,390 citations
- [Stephen Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-clark/) — 2003–2021 on 2 papers · 9 papers here · 3,079 citations
- [Sebastian Ruder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-ruder/) — current · 2026 on 1 paper · 19 papers here · 16,227 citations
- [Hao Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-peng/) — 2022–2024 on 3 papers · 11 papers here · 4,596 citations
- [Adina Williams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adina-williams/) — 2020–2021 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 10,394 citations
- [Ondřej Bojar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ondrej-bojar/) — 2021–2022 on 3 papers · 27 papers here · 13,549 citations
- [Nianwen Xue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nianwen-xue/) — 2016–2019 on 2 papers · 22 papers here · 5,725 citations
- [Jörg Tiedemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jorg-tiedemann/) — 2014–2025 on 2 papers · 15 papers here · 5,497 citations
- [Simone Teufel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-teufel/) — 1997–1999 on 4 papers · education (Wikidata) · 6 papers here · 2,511 citations
- [Preslav Nakov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 32 papers here · 13,932 citations
- [Amittai Axelrod](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amittai-axelrod/) — 2005–2006 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 1,318 citations
- [Johan Bos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johan-bos/) — 2001–2006 on 14 papers · 14 papers here · 2,420 citations
- [Rachel Bawden](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rachel-bawden/) — 2019–2022 on 12 papers · employment (ORCID) · 12 papers here · 2,785 citations
- [Katja Markert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katja-markert/) — 1999–2003 on 5 papers · 11 papers here · 2,609 citations
- [Alan W Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-w-black/) — 1986–2002 on 14 papers · education (Wikidata) · 9 papers here · 3,702 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 209 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/authors/)

## Works in our library (202)

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

- [The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huddleston-2002-cambridge-grammar-english-language/) — Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum · 2002 · 4,249 citations
- [Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carletta-1996-assessing-agreement-classification-tasks-kappa/) — Jean Carletta · 1996 · 2,462 citations
- [Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voita-2019-analyzing-multi-head-self-attention/) — Elena Voita, David Talbot, Fedor Moiseev, et al. · 2019 · 1,511 citations
- [Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stolcke-2000-dialogue-act-modeling-automatic-tagging/) — Andreas Stolcke, Klaus Ries, Noah Coccaro, et al. · 2000 · 1,447 citations
- [Long Short-Term Memory-Networks for Machine Reading](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2016-long-short-term-memory-networks/) — Jianpeng Cheng, Li Dong, Mirella Lapata · 2016 · 1,300 citations
- [Encoding Sentences with Graph Convolutional Networks for Semantic Role Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcheggiani-2017-encoding-sentences-graph-convolutional-networks/) — Diego Marcheggiani, Ivan Titov · 2017 · 1,101 citations
- [Neural Summarization by Extracting Sentences and Words](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2016-neural-summarization-extracting-sentences-words/) — Jianpeng Cheng, Mirella Lapata · 2016 · 1,000 citations
- [Findings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2016-findings-2016-conference-machine-translation/) — Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, et al. · 2016 · 936 citations
- [Findings of the 2014 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2014-findings-2014-workshop-statistical-machine/) — Ondřej Bojar, Christian Buck, Christian Federmann, et al. · 2014 · 923 citations
- [Clause Restructuring for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/collins-2005-clause-restructuring-statistical-machine-translation/) — Michael Collins, Philipp Koehn, Ivona Kučerová · 2005 · 918 citations
- [Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-Based Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barzilay-2008-modeling-local-coherence-entity-based/) — Regina Barzilay, Mirella Lapata · 2008 · 912 citations
- [Dependency-Based Construction of Semantic Space Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pado-2007-dependency-based-construction-semantic-space/) — Sebastian Padó, Mirella Lapata · 2007 · 906 citations
- [Findings of the 2019 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2019-findings-2019-conference-machine-translation/) — Loïc Barrault, Ondřej Bojar, Marta R. Costa-jussà, et al. · 2019 · 839 citations
- [Recognizing Contextual Polarity: An Exploration of Features for Phrase-Level Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wilson-2009-recognizing-contextual-polarity-exploration-features/) — Theresa Wilson, Janyce Wiebe, Paul Hoffmann · 2009 · 824 citations
- [Paraphrasing with Bilingual Parallel Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bannard-2005-paraphrasing-bilingual-parallel-corpora/) — Colin Bannard, Chris Callison-Burch · 2005 · 821 citations
- [TuckER: Tensor Factorization for Knowledge Graph Completion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/balazevic-2019-tucker-tensor-factorization-knowledge-graph/) — Ivana Balažević, Carl Allen, Timothy M. Hospedales · 2019 · 792 citations
- [Summarizing Scientific Articles: Experiments with Relevance and Rhetorical Status](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/teufel-2002-summarizing-scientific-articles-experiments-relevance/) — Simone Teufel, Marc Moens · 2002 · 775 citations
- [Findings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2018-findings-2018-conference-machine-translation/) — Ondřej Bojar, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, et al. · 2018 · 747 citations
- [Findings of the 2017 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT17)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2017-findings-2017-conference-machine-translation/) — Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, et al. · 2017 · 685 citations
- [Learning multiple visual domains with residual adapters](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rebuffi-2017-learning-multiple-visual-domains-residual/) — Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi, Hakan Bilen, Andrea Vedaldi · 2017 · 670 citations
- [CCGbank: A Corpus of CCG Derivations and Dependency Structures Extracted from the Penn Treebank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hockenmaier-2007-ccgbank-corpus-ccg-derivations-dependency/) — Julia Hockenmaier, Mark Steedman · 2007 · 611 citations
- [The WebNLG Challenge: Generating Text from RDF Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gardent-2017-webnlg-challenge-generating-text-rdf/) — Claire Gardent, Anastasia Shimorina, Shashi Narayan, et al. · 2017 · 579 citations
- [Sentence Simplification with Deep Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2017-sentence-simplification-deep-reinforcement-learning/) — Xingxing Zhang, Mirella Lapata · 2017 · 567 citations
- [Edinburgh System Description for the 2005 IWSLT Speech Translation Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2005-edinburgh-system-description-2005-iwslt/) — Philipp Koehn, Amittai Axelrod, Alexandra Birch Mayne, et al. · 2005 · 545 citations
- [Creating Training Corpora for NLG Micro-Planners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gardent-2017-creating-training-corpora-nlg-micro/) — Claire Gardent, Anastasia Shimorina, Shashi Narayan, et al. · 2017 · 526 citations

[See all 202 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/works/)

## Topics

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

[Machine translation (56)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (32)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Discourse analysis (29)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Coreference resolution (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Semitic languages (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Semantic role labeling (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [Treebanks (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Summarization (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Speech & spoken language (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Reasoning (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/)

**23 more topics**

[Word sense disambiguation (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Dialogue systems (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Morphology (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Question answering (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Text generation (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Low-resource languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Speech act theory (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Implicature (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) · [Vision & language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Dependency parsing (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Universal Dependencies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Ancient Greek (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/ancient-greek/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Efficient models & compression (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/)

## Fields

[Linguistics & languages (116)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Natural language processing (81)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Machine translation (56)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [AI & machine learning (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/ai/) · [Mathematics & statistics (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Computing & GPUs (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/)

## Collaborates with

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

[University of Amsterdam 26](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) [Johns Hopkins University 18](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) [University of Zurich 18](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/) [Charles University 14](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) [University of Pennsylvania 13](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) [Microsoft 11](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence 9](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/german-research-centre-for-artificial-intelligence/) [University of Sheffield 8](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) [Stanford University 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [University of Washington 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) [Carnegie Mellon University 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [University of Cambridge 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/)

## Parent and units

**Units** British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science Centre for Inflammation Research Institute of Genetics and Cancer International Centre for Mathematical Sciences MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine MRC Centre for Reproductive Health MRC Human Genetics Unit Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences Roslin Institute The Queen's Medical Research Institute Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute

**Related** Edinburgh Royal Infirmary St John's Hospital Western General 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 Edinburgh; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.
