Alon Lavie

11.1k citations

123 papers · 6.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

Artificial Intelligence top 0.1%
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Topic Modeling
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Text Readability and Simplification
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition top 0.5%
- Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Human Pose and Action Recognition
- Video Analysis and Summarization

Papers in

Artificial Intelligence 121
- Natural Language Processing Techniques 119
- Topic Modeling 88
- Speech and dialogue systems 52
- Text Readability and Simplification 18
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis 11
- Semantic Web and Ontologies 10
- Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation 6
Language and Linguistics 5

Co-authors: Satanjeev Banerjee Michael Denkowski Kenji Sagae Lori Levin Chris Dyer Kenneth Heafield Brian MacWhinney Jaime Carbonell
Journals: Machine Translation (6 papers)Language Resources and Evaluation (3 papers)Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1 paper)Heredity (1 paper)Applied Psycholinguistics (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Germany Portugal

In The Last Decade

Alon Lavie

116 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Meteor Universal: Language Specific Translation Evaluation for Any Target Language 2014 · 1.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Meteor Universal: Language Specific Translation Evaluation for Any Target Language
2007 Meteor
2005 Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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1	Findings of the WMT25 Shared Task on Automated Translation Evaluation Systems: Linguistic Diversity is Challenging and References Still Help Alon Lavie, Greg Hanneman, Sweta Agrawal, Diptesh Kanojia, Chi-kiu Lo, Vilém Zouhar, Frédéric Blain, Chrysoula Zerva, Eleftherios Avramidis, Sourabh Deoghare, Archchana Sindhujan, Jiayi Wang, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Brian J. Thompson, Tom Kocmi, Markus Freitag, Daniel Deutsch	2025	0
2	On the Benchmarking of LLMs for Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation John Mendonça, Alon Lavie, Isabel Trancoso	2024	0
3	Soda-Eval: Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation in the age of LLMs John Mendonça, Isabel Trancoso, Alon Lavie	2024	1
4	Improving Syntax-Augmented Machine Translation by Coarsening the Label Set North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ·Greg Hanneman, Alon Lavie	2013	13
5	Language Model Rest Costs and Space-Efficient Storage Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ·Kenneth Heafield, Philipp Koehn, Alon Lavie	2012	7
6	Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation Kenneth Heafield, Alon Lavie	2011	9
7	Meteor 1.3: Automatic Metric for Reliable Optimization and Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation ·Michael Denkowski, Alon Lavie	2011	236
8	A General-Purpose Rule Extractor for SCFG-Based Machine Translation Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ·Greg Hanneman, Michelle Burroughs, Alon Lavie	2011	7
9	CMU System Combination in WMT 2011 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation ·Kenneth Heafield, Alon Lavie	2011	6
10	Extending the METEOR Machine Translation Evaluation Metric to the Phrase Level North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ·Michael Denkowski, Alon Lavie	2010	35
11	Machine Translation between Hebrew and Arabic: Needs, Challenges and Preliminary Solutions Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas ·Reshef Shilon, Nizar Habash, Alon Lavie, Shuly Wintner	2010	8
12	Improved Features and Grammar Selection for Syntax-Based MT Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation ·Greg Hanneman, Jonathan H. Clark, Alon Lavie	2010	3
13	METEOR-NEXT and the METEOR Paraphrase Tables: Improved Evaluation Support for Five Target Languages Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation ·Michael Denkowski, Alon Lavie	2010	49
14	Improving Syntax-Driven Translation Models by Re-structuring Divergent and Nonisomorphic Parse Tree Structures. Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas ·Vamshi Ambati, Alon Lavie	2008	5
15	Parsing the CHILDES Database: Methodology and Lessons Learned. Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie, Brian MacWhinney	2001	5
16	Automatic Summarization of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains Heredity ·Klaus Zechner, Jaime Carbonell, Alon Lavie, Vibhu O. Mittal, Waasst wiast rutschst, wannst gehst, Wiast segn, wiast rutschst, wannst foahrst	2001	14
17	Janus: A System for Translation of Conversational Speech. Künstliche Intell. ·Alex Waibel, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin	1997	1
18	GLR: A Robust Grammar-Focused Parser For Spontaneously Spoken Language Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)* ·Alon Lavie, Masaru Tomita	1996	27
19	JANUS: multi-lingual translation of spontaneous speech in limited domain Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas ·Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Alex Waibel, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavaldà, Laura Mayfield	1996	2
20	Towards Spontaneous Speech Translation International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ·Monika Woszczyna, N. Aoki-Waibel, Finn Dag Buø, Noah Coccaro, Koki Horiguchi, Thomas Kemp, Alon Lavie, A. McNair, Thomas Polzin, Ivica Rogina, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Tanja Schultz, Bernhard Suhm, Masaru Tomita, Alex Waibel	1994	10

About Alon Lavie

Alon Lavie is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Software and Information Systems, having authored 123 papers that have together received 6.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (119 papers), Topic Modeling (88 papers), Speech and dialogue systems (52 papers), Text Readability and Simplification (18 papers), Speech Recognition and Synthesis (11 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (10 papers), Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (6 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Artificial Intelligence (4.9k citations), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2.3k citations), Health Informatics (38 citations), Language and Linguistics (207 citations) and Information Systems (399 citations). Alon Lavie has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Portugal. Frequent co-authors include Satanjeev Banerjee, Michael Denkowski, Kenji Sagae, Lori Levin, Chris Dyer, Kenneth Heafield, Brian MacWhinney, Jaime Carbonell, Donna Gates and Jonathan H. Clark. Their work appears in journals such as Machine Translation, Language Resources and Evaluation, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Heredity and Applied Psycholinguistics.

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