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# University of Zurich

University · UZH [Zurich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/zurich/), Switzerlandin the agglomeration of [Zurich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/zurich/)

- [Website](https://uzh.ch/de.html)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/02crff812)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I202697423)

[**44** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/works/) · [**32** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/#authors) · [**10,252** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/works/) · [**4,164** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/works/)

## People (32)

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

### Core (16)

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

- [Rico Sennrich](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rico-sennrich/) — current · 2010–2026 on 205 papers · education (ORCID) · employment (ORCID) · 23 papers here · 8,189 citations
- [Mathias Müller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mathias-muller/) — 2013–2024 on 7 papers · 4 papers here · 1,974 citations
- [Mark Fishel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-fishel/) — 2011–2015 on 15 papers · employment (ORCID) · 8 papers here · 2,498 citations
- [Annette Rios](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annette-rios/) — current · 2009–2025 on 49 papers · 4 papers here · 1,435 citations
- [Martin Volk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-volk/) — current · 1996–2024 on 65 papers · employment (ORCID) · 3 papers here · 988 citations
- [Samuel Läubli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-laubli/) — 2010–2023 on 10 papers · 2 papers here · 883 citations
- [Tanja Samardžić](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanja-samardzic/) — current · 2014–2026 on 50 papers · 4 papers here · 512 citations
- [Simon Clematide](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-clematide/) — current · 2001–2026 on 107 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 3 papers here · 300 citations
- [Don Tuggener](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/don-tuggener/) — 2010–2021 on 18 papers · 3 papers here · 184 citations
- [Chantal Amrhein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chantal-amrhein/) — 2017–2023 on 26 papers · 2 papers here · 168 citations
- [Manfred Klenner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manfred-klenner/) — 2004–2023 on 54 papers · 2 papers here · 132 citations
- [Juri Opitz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juri-opitz/) — current · 2024–2026 on 25 papers · 4 papers here · 273 citations
- [Fabio Rinaldi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabio-rinaldi/) — 2002–2025 on 131 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 3 papers here · 116 citations
- [Alireza Mohammadshahi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alireza-mohammadshahi/) — 2023–2024 on 5 papers · 3 papers here · 100 citations
- [Sina Ahmadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sina-ahmadi/) — current · 2026 on 6 papers · 2 papers here · 57 citations
- [Reto Gubelmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reto-gubelmann/) — current · 2017–2026 on 23 papers · 2 papers here · 59 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (16)**

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

- [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) — 2021–2022 on 3 papers · 45 papers here · 26,101 citations
- [Angela Fan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angela-fan/) — 2021–2022 on 2 papers · 15 papers here · 12,404 citations
- [Antonios Anastasopoulos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonios-anastasopoulos/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 10 papers here · 2,793 citations
- [Mrinmaya Sachan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinmaya-sachan/) — 2025–2026 on 2 papers · 7 papers here · 1,669 citations
- [Omnia Ibrahim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omnia-ibrahim/) — 2019–2020 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 23 citations
- [Andrew Zisserman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-zisserman/) — current · 2026 on 1 paper · 3 papers here · 76,302 citations
- [Alexandra Birch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexandra-birch/) — 2021–2024 on 3 papers · 14 papers here · 7,986 citations
- [Marco Marelli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-marelli/) — 2023 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 3,329 citations
- [Mario Giulianelli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mario-giulianelli/) — current · 2025 on 1 paper · 6 papers here · 2,147 citations
- [Nikola Ljubešić](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikola-ljubesic/) — 2018–2022 on 2 papers · 8 papers here · 1,602 citations
- [Karin Verspoor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karin-verspoor/) — 2013–2014 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 1,571 citations
- [Antonio Jimeno Yepes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonio-jimeno-yepes/) — 2013–2014 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 1,104 citations
- [Vilém Zouhar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vilem-zouhar/) — 2025–2026 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 931 citations
- [Tilman Beck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tilman-beck/) — current · 2025–2026 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 630 citations
- [Damián Blasi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damian-blasi/) — 2016–2022 on 24 papers · 2 papers here · 219 citations
- [Martijn Naaijer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martijn-naaijer/) — current · 2026 on 4 papers · 8 papers here · 23 citations

## Works in our library (44)

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

- [ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gilardi-2023-chatgpt-outperforms-crowd-workers-text/) — Fabrizio Gilardi, Meysam Alizadeh, Maël Kubli · 2023 · 1,532 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
- [Adapted Large Language Models Can Outperform Medical Experts in Clinical Text Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/veen-2023-adapted-large-language-models-outperform/) — Dave Van Veen, Cara Van Uden, Louis Blankemeier, et al. · 2023 · 925 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
- [Improving Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation and Zero-Shot Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2020-improving-massively-multilingual-neural-machine/) — Biao Zhang, Philip Williams, Ivan Titov, et al. · 2020 · 472 citations
- [Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kreutzer-2021-quality-glance-audit-web-crawled/) — Julia Kreutzer, Isaac Caswell, Lisa Wang, et al. · 2021 · 447 citations
- [Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation Learns Anaphora Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voita-2018-context-aware-neural-machine-translation/) — Elena Voita, Pavel Serdyukov, Rico Sennrich, et al. · 2018 · 446 citations
- [Has Machine Translation Achieved Human Parity? A Case for Document-level Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/laubli-2018-has-machine-translation-achieved-human/) — Samuel Läubli, Rico Sennrich, Martin Volk · 2018 · 443 citations
- [When a Good Translation is Wrong in Context: Context-Aware Machine Translation Improves on Deixis, Ellipsis, and Lexical Cohesion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voita-2019-when-good-translation-is-wrong/) — Elena Voita, Rico Sennrich, Ivan Titov · 2019 · 321 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
- [Evaluating Discourse Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bawden-2017-evaluating-discourse-phenomena-neural-machine/) — Rachel Bawden, Rico Sennrich, Alexandra Birch, et al. · 2017 · 252 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
- [The Bottom-up Evolution of Representations in the Transformer: A Study with Machine Translation and Language Modeling Objectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voita-2019-bottom-up-evolution-representations-transformer/) — Elena Voita, Rico Sennrich, Ivan Titov · 2019 · 222 citations
- [On Exposure Bias, Hallucination and Domain Shift in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-exposure-bias-hallucination-domain-shift/) — Chaojun Wang, Rico Sennrich · 2020 · 204 citations
- [Nematus: a Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sennrich-2017-nematus-toolkit-neural-machine-translation/) — Rico Sennrich, Orhan Firat, Kyunghyun Cho, et al. · 2017 · 202 citations
- [Improving Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation with Sense Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gonzales-2017-improving-word-sense-disambiguation-neural/) — Annette Rios Gonzales, Laura Mascarell, Rico Sennrich · 2017 · 185 citations
- [Language Identification and Morphosyntactic Tagging: The Second VarDial Evaluation Campaign](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zampieri-2018-language-identification-morphosyntactic-tagging-second/) — Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Preslav Nakov, et al. · 2018 · 169 citations
- [Dirt Cheap Web-Scale Parallel Text from the Common Crawl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2013-dirt-cheap-web-scale-parallel/) — Jason R. Smith, Herve Saint-Amand, Magdalena Plamada, et al. · 2013 · 165 citations
- [AmericasNLI: Evaluating Zero-shot Natural Language Understanding of Pretrained Multilingual Models in Truly Low-resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ebrahimi-2022-americasnli-evaluating-zero-shot-natural/) — Abteen Ebrahimi, Manuel Mager, Arturo Oncevay, et al. · 2022 · 163 citations
- [CLIMATE-FEVER: A Dataset for Verification of Real-World Climate Claims](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/diggelmann-2020-climate-fever-dataset-verification-real/) — Thomas Diggelmann, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Jannis Bulian, et al. · 2020 · 157 citations
- [Domain Robustness in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muller-2020-domain-robustness-neural-machine-translation/) — Mathias Müller, Annette Rios, Rico Sennrich · 2020 · 135 citations
- [A Large-Scale Test Set for the Evaluation of Context-Aware Pronoun Translation in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muller-2018-large-scale-test-set-evaluation/) — Mathias Müller, Annette Rios, Elena Voita, et al. · 2018 · 123 citations
- [LEXTREME: A Multi-Lingual and Multi-Task Benchmark for the Legal Domain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niklaus-2023-lextreme-multi-lingual-multi-task/) — Joel Niklaus, Veton Matoshi, Pooja Rani, et al. · 2023 · 122 citations
- [Findings of the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation for Indigenous Languages of the Americas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mager-2021-findings-americasnlp-2021-shared-task/) — Manuel Mager, Arturo Oncevay, Abteen Ebrahimi, et al. · 2021 · 118 citations
- [LEDGAR: A Large-Scale Multi-label Corpus for Text Classification of Legal Provisions in Contracts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tuggener-2020-ledgar-large-scale-multi-label/) — Don Tuggener, Pius von Däniken, Thomas Peetz, et al. · 2020 · 107 citations

[See all 44 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/works/)

## Topics

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

[Machine translation 22](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 13](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Coreference resolution 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Low-resource languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Legal AI 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Discourse analysis 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [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/) · [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Summarization 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Morphology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/)

**3 more topics**

[Reasoning 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semitic languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Tokenization & segmentation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

Fields: [Linguistics & languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) (28) · [Natural language processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) (17) · [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) (16) · [Law](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/law/) (2) · [AI & machine learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/ai/) (1) · [Computing & GPUs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/) (1) · [Mathematics & statistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) (1)

## Collaborates with

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

[University of Edinburgh 18](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) [University of Amsterdam 8](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) [Microsoft 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [New York University 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) [Harvard University 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) [Yandex 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yandex/) [Stanford University 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [Carnegie Mellon University 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [Johns Hopkins University 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) [ETH Zurich 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) [Google 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [University of Colorado Boulder 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/)

## Parent and units

**Units** Institute for Biomedical Engineering Institute of Neuroinformatics

**Related** University Children's Hospital Zurich University Hospital Zurich Universitätsklinik Balgrist Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering Zentralbibliothek Zürich

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