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# University of Geneva

University · UNIGE [Geneva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/geneva/), Switzerlandin the agglomeration of [Geneva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/geneva/)

- [Website](https://www.unige.ch/)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/01swzsf04)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I114457229)

[**20** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/#works) · [**26** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/#authors) · [**2,453** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/#works) · [**940** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/#works)

## People (26)

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

### Core (17)

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

- [Andrea Gesmundo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-gesmundo/) — 2009–2012 on 7 papers · 2 papers here · 1,131 citations
- [Kristina Gulordava](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristina-gulordava/) — 2015–2020 on 8 papers · 2 papers here · 1,075 citations
- [Paola Merlo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paola-merlo/) — current · 1992–2026 on 85 papers · 4 papers here · 663 citations
- [Yves Scherrer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yves-scherrer/) — 2007–2017 on 22 papers · education (ORCID) · education (Wikidata) · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 4 papers here · 1,177 citations
- [Alexander Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-clark/) — 2001–2005 on 6 papers · 2 papers here · 349 citations
- [James Henderson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-henderson/) — 2000–2019 on 31 papers · 6 papers here · 1,064 citations
- [Lonneke van der Plas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/) — 2003–2011 on 10 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 6 papers here · 619 citations
- [Tanja Samardžić](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanja-samardzic/) — 2010–2014 on 6 papers · 4 papers here · 512 citations
- [Pierrette Bouillon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierrette-bouillon/) — current · 1994–2026 on 138 papers · 5 papers here · 226 citations
- [Sharid Loáiciga](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharid-loaiciga/) — 2012–2017 on 9 papers · 4 papers here · 222 citations
- [Bruno Cartoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bruno-cartoni/) — current · 2004–2020 on 27 papers · 2 papers here · 110 citations
- [Sandrine Zufferey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandrine-zufferey/) — current · 2003–2019 on 36 papers · 4 papers here · 160 citations
- [Adriana Belletti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adriana-belletti/) — 1988–2023 on 25 papers · 2 papers here · 40 citations
- [Luigi Rizzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luigi-rizzi/) — 1988–2022 on 37 papers · 2 papers here · 40 citations
- [Jonathan Mutal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-mutal/) — current · 2019–2026 on 21 papers · 3 papers here · 13 citations
- [Giuseppe Samo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-samo/) — 2023 on 7 papers · 2 papers here · 13 citations
- [Lise Volkart](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lise-volkart/) — current · 2019–2026 on 6 papers · 2 papers here · 2 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.

- [Raphael Rubino](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-rubino/) — 2024–2025 on 5 papers · 3 papers here · 2,057 citations
- [Simon Hengchen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-hengchen/) — current · 2024–2026 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 498 citations
- [Eugene Charniak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-charniak/) — 1977 on 3 papers · 12 papers here · 7,659 citations
- [Ivan Titov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-titov/) — 2005–2007 on 8 papers · 14 papers here · 6,932 citations
- [Dekai Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dekai-wu/) — 1997–1999 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 2,377 citations
- [Théo Desbordes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/theo-desbordes/) — current · 2026 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 1,890 citations
- [David Traum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-traum/) — 1996–2002 on 6 papers · 5 papers here · 597 citations
- [Thomas Meyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-meyer/) — current · on 1 paper · 6 papers here · 379 citations
- [Perla Al Almaoui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/perla-al-almaoui/) — current · 2026 on 1 paper · 2 papers here · 2 citations

## Works in our library (20)

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

- [Colorless Green Recurrent Networks Dream Hierarchically](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gulordava-2018-colorless-green-recurrent-networks-dream/) — Kristina Gulordava, Piotr Bojanowski, Edouard Grave, et al. · 2018 · 759 citations
- [Identifying Word Translations in Non-Parallel Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rapp-1995-identifying-word-translations-non-parallel/) — Reinhard Rapp · 1995 · 394 citations
- [Combining Distributional and Morphological Information for Part of Speech Induction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/clark-2003-combining-distributional-morphological-information-part/) — Alexander Clark · 2003 · 295 citations
- [Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zampieri-2017-findings-vardial-evaluation-campaign/) — Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Nikola Ljubešić, et al. · 2017 · 261 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
- [Using Test Suites in Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/king-1990-test-suites-evaluation-machine-translation/) — Margaret King, Kirsten Falkedal · 1990 · 95 citations
- [The Notion of Argument in Prepositional Phrase Attachment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/merlo-2006-notion-argument-prepositional-phrase-attachment/) — Paola Merlo, Eva Esteve Ferrer · 2006 · 75 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
- [Multi-level Dialogue Act Tags](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/clark-2004-multi-level-dialogue-act-tags/) — Alexander Clark, Andrei Popescu-Belis · 2004 · 54 citations
- [Lemmatisation as a Tagging Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gesmundo-2012-lemmatisation-as-tagging-task/) — Andrea Gesmundo, Tanja Samardžić · 2012 · 47 citations
- [Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/merlo-2009-abstraction-generalisation-semantic-role-labels/) — Paola Merlo, Lonneke van der Plas · 2009 · 45 citations
- [No case for Case in locality: Case does not help interpretation when intervention blocks A-bar chains](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/friedmann-2017-no-case-case-locality-case/) — Naama Friedmann, Luigi Rizzi, Adriana Belletti · 2017 · 37 citations
- [Annotating tense, mood and voice for English, French and German](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramm-2017-annotating-tense-mood-voice-english/) — Anita Ramm, Sharid Loáiciga, Annemarie Friedrich, et al. · 2017 · 25 citations
- [The head the construct: Construct state nominals as a novel window to syntactic movement difficulties in hearing impairment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/friedmann-2018-head-construct-construct-state-nominals/) — Naama Friedmann, Ronit Szterman, Adriana Belletti, et al. · 2018 · 3 citations
- [Normalizing without Modernizing: Keeping Historical Wordforms of Middle French while Reducing Spelling Variants](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rubino-2024-normalizing-without-modernizing-keeping-historical/) — Raphael Rubino, Johanna Gerlach, Jonathan Mutal, et al. · 2024 · 2 citations
- [Interpreting past epistemic modals in English, Dutch, and French](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dieuleveut-2025-interpreting-past-epistemic-modals-english/) — Anouk Dieuleveut, Annemarie van Dooren · 2025 · 1 citation
- [Weakly Supervised Named Entity Recognition for Historical Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sorbi-2026-weakly-supervised-named-entity-recognition/) — Marco Sorbi, Laurent Moccozet, Stephane Marchand-Maillet · 2026 · 1 citation
- [Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mutal-2026-aladdin-fti-amiya-three-wishes/) — Jonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen, et al. · 2026
- [Lexical and Syntactic Diversity: Still Lost in Machine Translation?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/volkart-2026-lexical-syntactic-diversity-still-lost/) — Lise Volkart, Pierrette Bouillon · 2026

## Topics

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

[Machine translation 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Discourse analysis 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Morphology 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Named entity recognition 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Speech act theory 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Semantic role labeling 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Part-of-speech tagging 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Dialogue systems 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Semitic languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/)

Fields: [Linguistics & languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) (14) · [Natural language processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) (8) · [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) (4) · [Computing & GPUs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/) (1) · [Mathematics & statistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) (1) · [History & humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/history/) (1)

## Collaborates with

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

[Tel Aviv University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) [Johns Hopkins University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) [Harvard University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) [University of Zurich 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/) [University of Groningen 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/) [Idiap Research Institute 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/) [Utrecht University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/utrecht-university/) [University of Siena 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-siena/) [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/) [Meta 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/)

## Parent and units

**Units** Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva NCCR Chemical Biology - Visualisation and Control of Biological Processes Using Chemistry

**Related** [Idiap Research Institute](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/) MAGIC Telescopes University Hospital 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 University of Geneva; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.