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# University of Sheffield

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

- [Website](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/05krs5044)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I91136226)

[**67** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/works/) · [**65** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/authors/) · [**17,924** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/works/) · [**7,478** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/works/)

## People (65)

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

### Core (25)

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

- [Lucia Specia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucia-specia/) — 2012–2023 on 156 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 28 papers here · 10,762 citations
- [Andreas Vlachos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-vlachos/) — 2016–2019 on 25 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 10 papers here · 5,725 citations
- [Zeerak Waseem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeerak-waseem/) — 2020–2023 on 12 papers · 5 papers here · 4,149 citations
- [Carolina Scarton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolina-scarton/) — current · 2014–2026 on 144 papers · education (ORCID) · education (Wikidata) · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 11 papers here · 3,315 citations
- [James Thorne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-thorne/) — 2017–2021 on 7 papers · 6 papers here · 4,124 citations
- [Marco Turchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-turchi/) — 2014–2015 on 7 papers · 7 papers here · 4,842 citations
- [Varvara Logacheva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/varvara-logacheva/) — 2014–2018 on 11 papers · 6 papers here · 3,079 citations
- [Trevor Cohn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/trevor-cohn/) — 2010–2021 on 28 papers · 9 papers here · 5,266 citations
- [Kalina Bontcheva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kalina-bontcheva/) — current · 1997–2026 on 284 papers · education (Wikidata) · employment (Wikidata) · 4 papers here · 1,552 citations
- [Leon Derczynski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leon-derczynski/) — 2006–2018 on 65 papers · education (ORCID) · education (Wikidata) · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 6 papers here · 2,650 citations
- [Isabelle Augenstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/isabelle-augenstein/) — 2013–2017 on 16 papers · education (ORCID) · education (Wikidata) · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 10 papers here · 3,632 citations
- [Gustavo Paetzold](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gustavo-paetzold/) — 2014–2018 on 37 papers · 5 papers here · 1,293 citations
- [Frederic Blain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-blain/) — 2014–2022 on 22 papers · employment (ORCID) · 10 papers here · 1,418 citations
- [Marina Fomicheva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marina-fomicheva/) — 2016–2023 on 30 papers · 6 papers here · 895 citations
- [Horacio Saggion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-saggion/) — 2002–2011 on 54 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 3 papers here · 2,002 citations
- [Chenghua Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenghua-lin/) — 2018–2025 on 96 papers · 4 papers here · 697 citations
- [Robert Gaizauskas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-gaizauskas/) — current · 1994–2026 on 184 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 5 papers here · 401 citations
- [Aline Villavicencio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aline-villavicencio/) — current · 2018–2026 on 37 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 9 papers here · 610 citations
- [Nafise Sadat Moosavi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nafise-sadat-moosavi/) — current · 2022–2026 on 45 papers · 15 papers here · 800 citations
- [Kevin Humphreys](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-humphreys/) — 1995–2005 on 19 papers · 3 papers here · 241 citations
- [Saliha Azzam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saliha-azzam/) — 1996–1999 on 9 papers · 3 papers here · 241 citations
- [Harish Tayyar Madabushi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harish-tayyar-madabushi/) — 2021–2022 on 8 papers · 6 papers here · 239 citations
- [Maggie Mi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maggie-mi/) — current · 2025–2026 on 9 papers · 3 papers here · 52 citations
- [Atsuki Yamaguchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atsuki-yamaguchi/) — current · 2020–2026 on 12 papers · 2 papers here · 37 citations
- [Amit Meghanani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amit-meghanani/) — current · 2023–2026 on 7 papers · 2 papers here · 19 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (40)**

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

- [Fethi Bougares](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fethi-bougares/) — 2015–2020 on 4 papers · 8 papers here · 27,756 citations
- [Mirella Lapata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mirella-lapata/) — 2003–2005 on 8 papers · 27 papers here · 14,560 citations
- [Ion Androutsopoulos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ion-androutsopoulos/) — 2019–2021 on 4 papers · 12 papers here · 9,606 citations
- [Eneko Agirre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eneko-agirre/) — 2010–2015 on 6 papers · 18 papers here · 11,403 citations
- [Steven Bethard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steven-bethard/) — 2015–2016 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 10,667 citations
- [Loïc Barrault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/loic-barrault/) — 2016–2023 on 18 papers · employment (ORCID) · 12 papers here · 7,873 citations
- [Marcos Zampieri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcos-zampieri/) — 2015–2016 on 2 papers · 15 papers here · 7,896 citations
- [Ilias Chalkidis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ilias-chalkidis/) — 2019–2021 on 2 papers · 8 papers here · 4,076 citations
- [Wei He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-he/) — current · 2023–2025 on 7 papers · 6 papers here · 4,665 citations
- [Alexandra Birch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexandra-birch/) — 2017–2018 on 2 papers · 14 papers here · 7,986 citations
- [Marilyn Walker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marilyn-walker/) — 2003–2008 on 23 papers · 11 papers here · 2,626 citations
- [Bertie Vidgen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bertie-vidgen/) — 2021 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 2,121 citations
- [José G. C. de Souza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jose-g-c-de-souza/) — 2013 on 3 papers · 9 papers here · 2,266 citations
- [Shuo Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuo-sun/) — 2020–2022 on 4 papers · 3 papers here · 888 citations
- [James Pustejovsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-pustejovsky/) — 2015–2016 on 2 papers · 15 papers here · 1,621 citations
- [Nigel Collier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nigel-collier/) — 2024–2025 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 2,079 citations
- [Chris Hokamp](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-hokamp/) — 2015–2016 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 1,319 citations
- [Marcos Garcia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcos-garcia/) — 2021 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 342 citations
- [Yang Feng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-feng/) — 2012–2019 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 828 citations
- [Peiyi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peiyi-wang/) — 2000–2004 on 3 papers · 6 papers here · 8,210 citations
- [Jamie Hall](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jamie-hall/) — 2020–2025 on 13 papers · 2 papers here · 5,744 citations
- [Zheng Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheng-yuan/) — current · 2025–2026 on 9 papers · 4 papers here · 4,087 citations
- [Julia Hirschberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-hirschberg/) — 2004–2015 on 2 papers · 10 papers here · 3,302 citations
- [Miguel Ballesteros](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miguel-ballesteros/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 8 papers here · 3,161 citations
- [Siqi Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siqi-sun/) — current · 2026 on 4 papers · 3 papers here · 2,326 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 65 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/authors/)

## Works in our library (67)

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

- [FEVER: a Large-scale Dataset for Fact Extraction and VERification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thorne-2018-fever-large-scale-dataset-fact/) — James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos, Christos Christodoulopoulos, et al. · 2018 · 2,205 citations
- [LEGAL-BERT: The Muppets straight out of Law School](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chalkidis-2020-legal-bert-muppets-straight-out/) — Ilias Chalkidis, Manos Fergadiotis, Prodromos Malakasiotis, et al. · 2020 · 1,490 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
- [SemEval-2015 Task 2: Semantic Textual Similarity, English, Spanish and Pilot on Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agirre-2015-semeval-2015-task-2-semantic/) — Eneko Agirre, Carmen Banea, Claire Cardie, et al. · 2015 · 758 citations
- [Neural Legal Judgment Prediction in English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chalkidis-2019-neural-legal-judgment-prediction-english/) — Ilias Chalkidis, Ion Androutsopoulos, Nikolaos Aletras · 2019 · 558 citations
- [Results of the WNUT2017 Shared Task on Novel and Emerging Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/derczynski-2017-results-wnut2017-shared-task-novel/) — Leon Derczynski, Eric Nichols, Marieke van Erp, et al. · 2017 · 534 citations
- [Stance Detection with Bidirectional Conditional Encoding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/augenstein-2016-stance-detection-bidirectional-conditional-encoding/) — Isabelle Augenstein, Tim Rocktäschel, Andreas Vlachos, et al. · 2016 · 519 citations
- [Findings of the 2015 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2015-findings-2015-workshop-statistical-machine/) — Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, et al. · 2015 · 461 citations
- [Emergent: a novel data-set for stance classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ferreira-2016-emergent-novel-data-set-stance/) — William Ferreira, Andreas Vlachos · 2016 · 456 citations
- [Findings of the 2013 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bojar-2013-findings-2013-workshop-statistical-machine/) — Ondřej Bojar, Christian Buck, Chris Callison-Burch, et al. · 2013 · 441 citations
- [Who cares about Sarcastic Tweets? Investigating the Impact of Sarcasm on Sentiment Analysis.](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maynard-2014-who-cares-about-sarcastic-tweets/) — Diana Maynard, Mark Greenwood · 2014 · 434 citations
- [SemEval-2017 Task 8: RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/derczynski-2017-semeval-2017-task-8-rumoureval/) — Leon Derczynski, Kalina Bontcheva, Maria Liakata, et al. · 2017 · 427 citations
- [Findings of the 2020 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2020-findings-2020-conference-machine-translation/) — Loïc Barrault, Magdalena Biesialska, Ondřej Bojar, et al. · 2020 · 401 citations
- [MEAD - A Platform for Multidocument Multilingual Text Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/radev-2004-mead-platform-multidocument-multilingual-text/) — Dragomir Radev, Timothy Allison, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, et al. · 2004 · 400 citations
- [Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lapata-2003-probabilistic-text-structuring-experiments-sentence/) — Mirella Lapata · 2003 · 354 citations
- [A Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation and Crosslingual Image Description](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2016-shared-task-multimodal-machine-translation/) — Lucia Specia, Stella Frank, Khalil Sima'an, et al. · 2016 · 351 citations
- [The Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thorne-2018-fact-extraction-verification-fever-shared/) — James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos, Oana Cocarascu, et al. · 2018 · 322 citations
- [Learning from the Worst: Dynamically Generated Datasets to Improve Online Hate Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vidgen-2021-learning-worst-dynamically-generated-datasets/) — Bertie Vidgen, Tristan Thrush, Zeerak Waseem, et al. · 2021 · 320 citations
- [Twitter Part-of-Speech Tagging for All: Overcoming Sparse and Noisy Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/derczynski-2013-twitter-part-speech-tagging-all/) — Leon Derczynski, Alan Ritter, Sam Clark, et al. · 2013 · 316 citations
- [Automated Fact Checking: Task Formulations, Methods and Future Directions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thorne-2018-automated-fact-checking-task-formulations/) — James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos · 2018 · 303 citations
- [SemEval-2019 Task 7: RumourEval, Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gorrell-2019-semeval-2019-task-7-rumoureval/) — Genevieve Gorrell, Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata, et al. · 2019 · 290 citations
- [Challenges and Strategies in Cross-Cultural NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hershcovich-2022-challenges-strategies-cross-cultural-nlp/) — Daniel Hershcovich, Stella Frank, Heather Lent, et al. · 2022 · 290 citations
- [QuEst - A translation quality estimation framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2013-quest-translation-quality-estimation-framework/) — Lucia Specia, Kashif Shah, Jose G.C. de Souza, et al. · 2013 · 281 citations
- [SemEval-2016 Task 12: Clinical TempEval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bethard-2016-semeval-2016-task-12-clinical/) — Steven Bethard, Guergana Savova, Wei-Te Chen, et al. · 2016 · 263 citations
- [LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chalkidis-2021-lexglue-benchmark-dataset-legal-language/) — Ilias Chalkidis; Abhik Jana; Dirk Hartung; Michael Bommarito; Ion Androutsopoulos; Daniel Martin Katz;, Nikolaos Aletras · 2021 · 256 citations

[See all 67 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/works/)

## Topics

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

[Machine translation (18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (16)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Coreference resolution (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Language models & pretraining (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Legal AI (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [Vision & language (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Summarization (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Interpretability (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [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/) · [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/)

**8 more topics**

[Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [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 (33)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Natural language processing (32)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Machine translation (24)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [Law (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/law/) · [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.

[Imperial College London 12](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) [University of Edinburgh 8](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) [Johns Hopkins University 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) [University of Amsterdam 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) [University of Wolverhampton 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) [Meta 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) [Microsoft 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [University of Copenhagen 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) [Meta (United Kingdom) 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta-united-kingdom/) [Instituto de Telecomunicações 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-telecomunicacoes/) [University of Cambridge 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) [University of Pennsylvania 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/)

## Parent and units

**Related** Northern General Hospital Royal Hallamshire Hospital Sheffield Children's 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 Sheffield; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.