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Machine Translation
H-index 9

Machine Translation

0922-6567

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10590

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 623 18 24 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 18
Documents by Best Scientists*: 24
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 36
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.345
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Machine Translation?

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Computational linguistics, Artificial intelligence, Natural language processing, Machine translation and Rule-based machine translation. Computational linguistics research presented in Machine Translation encompasses a variety of subjects, including Applied linguistics, Translation (geometry), Language translation and Natural language. The Artificial intelligence study featured in it draws connections with the study of Machine learning.

While it focused on Natural language processing, it was also able to explore topics like Speech recognition and Grammar. The Machine translation study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Context (language use). Machine Translation explores research in Example-based machine translation and the adjacent study of Dynamic and formal equivalence.

  • Computational linguistics (81.08%)
  • Artificial intelligence (69.76%)
  • Natural language processing (62.15%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Meteor metric for automatic evaluation of machine translation (231 citations)
  • Providing machine tractable dictionary tools (211 citations)
  • Review Article: Example-based Machine Translation (205 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Machine Translation:

The journal publications mainly deal with areas of study such as Artificial intelligence, Computational linguistics, Natural language processing, Machine translation and Rule-based machine translation. The published papers explore topics in Artificial intelligence which can be helpful for research in disciplines like NIST and Software engineering. The journal articles address concerns in Natural language processing which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Speech recognition, Word (computer architecture) and Set (abstract data type).

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Programming language
  • Natural language processing

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The aim of the journal is to expand the discussion of research in Computational linguistics, Artificial intelligence, Machine translation, Natural language processing and Sign language. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Computational linguistics, it also covered topics in Animation, American Sign Language, Human–computer interaction, Translation (geometry) and Software. The studies in Artificial intelligence featured incorporate elements of Tamil, Contrast (statistics) and Scripting language.

Topics in Machine translation explored in Machine Translation were investigated in conjunction with research in Programming language, Modular design, DUAL (cognitive architecture), Benchmark (computing) and Phrase. In addition to Natural language processing research, Machine Translation aims to explore topics under Word (computer architecture), Context (language use) and Deep learning. The tackled Sign language research is interrelated with Avatar which concerns subjects like Legibility, Expression (mathematics) and Variety (linguistics).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A review of the state-of-the-art in automatic post-editing (5 citations)
  • ThamizhiMorph: A morphological parser for the Tamil language (2 citations)
  • An in-depth analysis of the individual impact of controlled language rules on machine translation output: a mixed-methods approach (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Machine Translation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Andy Way (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Sergei Nirenburg (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bonnie J. Dorr (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lucia Specia (9 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Marcello Federico (8 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Machine Translation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Dublin City University (50 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Carnegie Mellon University (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Manchester (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Maryland, College Park (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Edinburgh (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 8.70% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.81% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.81% of all publications and 52.38% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Opportunities in Computational Linguistics

Aside from research and academia, computational linguistics also opens up a vast field of exciting careers. This includes becoming an English teacher where you can intersect the discipline with traditional language education. If that piques your interest, then you can learn how to be an English teacher in Wisconsin. In the realm of technology, computational linguistics professionals can become machine learning engineers or data scientists. Their responsibilities often involve developing and refining algorithms that can understand and interpret human language. Therefore, a background in machine translation and natural language processing can be particularly beneficial. Additionally, many computational linguists can also delve into the exciting world of artificial intelligence. They can work on cutting-edge technologies such as AI-driven chatbots, virtual assistants like Siri or Alexa, or even advanced machine translation systems. This clearly underlines the immense potential and wide applications of computational linguistics in shaping future technology trends. Overall, the vast subjects covered in computational linguistics not only cater to an intellectual curioisty but also bring a plethora of career prospects in both academia and industry.

Top Publications

  • Multimodal machine translation through visuals and speech

    Umut Sulubacak;Ozan Caglayan;Stig-Arne Grönroos;Aku Rouhe

    (2020)
    58 Citations
  • Neural machine translation with a polysynthetic low resource language

    John E. Ortega;Richard Castro Mamani;Kyunghyun Cho

    (2020)
    48 Citations
  • A review of the state-of-the-art in automatic post-editing.

    Félix do Carmo;Félix do Carmo;Dimitar Shterionov;Dimitar Shterionov;Joss Moorkens;Joachim Wagner

    (2021)
    38 Citations
  • Optimizing segmentation granularity for neural machine translation

    Elizabeth Salesky;Andrew Runge;Alex Coda;Jan Niehues

    (2020)
    36 Citations
  • Extremely low-resource neural machine translation for Asian languages

    Raphael Rubino;Benjamin Marie;Raj Dabre;Atsushi Fujita

    (2020)
    29 Citations
  • Experience of neural machine translation between Indian languages

    Shubham Dewangan;Shreya Alva;Nitish Joshi;Pushpak Bhattacharyya

    (2021)
    20 Citations
  • Analysing terminology translation errors in statistical and neural machine translation

    Rejwanul Haque;Mohammed Hasanuzzaman;Andy Way

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • A roadmap to neural automatic post-editing: an empirical approach

    Dimitar Sht. Shterionov;Félix do Carmo;Joss Moorkens;Murhaf Hossari

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Simple measures of bridging lexical divergence help unsupervised neural machine translation for low-resource languages

    (2022)
    10 Citations
  • Recent advances of low-resource neural machine translation

    Rejwanul Haque;Chao-Hong Liu;Andy Way

    (2021)
    8 Citations

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