Alexandra Birch

22.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
89 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Alexandra Birch is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandra Birch has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alexandra Birch's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (74 papers), Topic Modeling (61 papers) and Text Readability and Simplification (21 papers). Alexandra Birch is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (74 papers), Topic Modeling (61 papers) and Text Readability and Simplification (21 papers). Alexandra Birch collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Alexandra Birch's co-authors include Miles Osborne, Philipp Koehn, Chris Callison-Burch, Ondřej Bojar, Hieu Hoang, Chris Dyer, Wade Shen, Evan Herbst, Brooke Cowan and Marcello Federico and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Computational Linguistics and Language Resources and Evaluation.

In The Last Decade

Alexandra Birch

81 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Moses 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2007 2011 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Moses
    2007 3.2k citations Philipp Koehn, Alexandra Birch et al. profile →
  2. Moses: Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation
    2007 1.1k citations Philipp Koehn, Alexandra Birch et al. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) profile →
  3. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
    2011 902 citations Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne profile →

Peers

Alexandra Birch
Slav Petrov United States
Daniel Marcu United States
Daniel Gildea United States
Eneko Agirre Spain
Bonnie J. Dorr United States
Joakim Nivre Sweden
Marcello Federico Italy
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe United States
Alon Lavie United States
Mona Diab United States
Slav Petrov United States
Alexandra Birch
Citations per year, relative to Alexandra Birch Alexandra Birch (= 1×) peers Slav Petrov

Countries citing papers authored by Alexandra Birch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexandra Birch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandra Birch

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexandra Birch. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexandra Birch based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexandra Birch. Alexandra Birch is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Weixuan, Minghao Wu, Barry Haddow, & Alexandra Birch. (2025). Bridging the Language Gaps in Large Language Models with Inference-Time Cross-Lingual Intervention. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 5418–5433.
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Birch, Alexandra, et al.. (2024). Cache & Distil: Optimising API Calls to Large Language Models. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 11838–11853.
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Iyer, Vivek, et al.. (2024). Exploring Very Low-Resource Translation with LLMs: The University of Edinburgh’s Submission to AmericasNLP 2024 Translation Task. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 209–220. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Wenhao, et al.. (2024). Question Translation Training for Better Multilingual Reasoning. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 8411–8423. 2 indexed citations
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Birch, Alexandra, et al.. (2024). Document-Level Machine Translation with Large-Scale Public Parallel Corpora. 13185–13197. 1 indexed citations
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Steedman, Mark, et al.. (2023). Extrinsic Evaluation of Machine Translation Metrics. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 13060–13078. 9 indexed citations
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Dong, Hang, et al.. (2021). CoPHE: A Count-Preserving Hierarchical Evaluation Metric in Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 907–912. 5 indexed citations
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Nădejde, Maria, Siva Reddy, Rico Sennrich, et al.. (2017). Syntax-aware Neural Machine Translation Using CCG.. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations
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Nădejde, Maria, Alexandra Birch, & Philipp Koehn. (2016). Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation, Volume 1: Research Papers. 5 indexed citations
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Bell, Peter, et al.. (2015). A system for automatic broadcast news summarisation, geolocation and translation. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 730–731. 2 indexed citations
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Birch, Alexandra, et al.. (2014). Automated Production of True-Cased Punctuated Subtitles for Weather and News Broadcasts. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 2146–2147. 7 indexed citations
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Birch, Alexandra, Barry Haddow, Ulrich Germann, et al.. (2013). The Feasibility of HMEANT as a Human MT Evaluation Metric. Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. 52–61. 9 indexed citations
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Birch, Alexandra & Miles Osborne. (2010). LRscore for Evaluating Lexical and Reordering Quality in MT. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 327–332. 32 indexed citations
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Birch, Alexandra & Miles Osborne. (2010). Proceedings of the Joint 5th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR. 8 indexed citations
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Birch, Alexandra, Miles Osborne, & Philipp Koehn. (2008). 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2008, Proceedings of the Conference, 25-27 October 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL. 3 indexed citations
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Birch, Alexandra, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne, & Philipp Koehn. (2006). Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. 17 indexed citations
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Birch, Alexandra, Chris Callison-Burch, & Miles Osborne. (2006). Constraining the Phrase-Based, Joint Probability Statistical Translation Model.. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 10–18. 7 indexed citations

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