2026 Holger Schwenk: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	50	5452	5298	2484	2399	151	42889

Overview

Holger Schwenk is affiliated with Facebook in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in computer science, particularly focusing on artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Their body of work encompasses a range of subfields, including computer vision and pattern recognition, information systems, and speech and dialogue systems.

The scientist has published 71 works in computer science, with 53 focused specifically on artificial intelligence. Other notable subfields include computer vision and pattern recognition with 17 contributions, and information systems represented in their research as well. Their research spans several main topics:

Natural Language Processing Techniques
Topic Modeling
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Speech and dialogue systems
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

Some of Holger Schwenk's recent publications illustrate the scope and evolution of their research interests. Notable papers include:

Beyond English-Centric Multilingual Machine Translation (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation on Real Data (2022), presented at the Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Scaling neural machine translation to 200 languages (2024), published in Nature

Holger Schwenk frequently collaborates with several coauthors who have contributed significantly to their joint research projects. These include:

Paul-Ambroise Duquenne (13 publications)
Kevin S. Heffernan (10 publications)
Changhan Wang (9 publications)
Juan Pino (9 publications)
Marta R. Costa-jussà (9 publications)

The scientist's work is often published in notable venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), where 20 of their papers have appeared. Other venues of publication include Nature, Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and IEEE/CVF conferences related to computer vision and pattern recognition.

Best Publications

Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder--Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation

Kyunghyun Cho;Bart van Merrienboer;Caglar Gulcehre;Dzmitry Bahdanau

28068
Citations
Supervised learning of universal sentence representations from natural language inference data

Alexis Conneau;Douwe Kiela;Holger Schwenk;Loïc Barrault

2211
Citations
Very deep convolutional networks for text classification

Alexis Conneau;Holger Schwenk;Loïc Barrault;Yann Lecun

983
Citations
XNLI: Evaluating Cross-lingual Sentence Representations

Alexis Conneau;Ruty Rinott;Guillaume Lample;Adina Williams

981
Citations
Massively Multilingual Sentence Embeddings for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer and Beyond

Mikel Artetxe;Holger Schwenk

878
Citations
No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation

Unknown

739
Citations
On using monolingual corpora in neural machine translation

Çaglar Gülçehre;Orhan Firat;Kelvin Xu;Kyunghyun Cho

724
Citations
Neural Probabilistic Language Models

Yoshua Bengio;Holger Schwenk;Jean-Sébastien Senécal;Fréderic Morin

683
Citations
Continuous space language models

Holger Schwenk

662
Citations
Beyond English-Centric Multilingual Machine Translation

Angela Fan;Shruti Bhosale;Holger Schwenk;Zhiyi Ma

493
Citations
Boosting Neural Networks

Holger Schwenk;Yoshua Bengio

434
Citations
MLQA: Evaluating Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering

Patrick S. H. Lewis;Barlas Oguz;Ruty Rinott;Sebastian Riedel

382
Citations
WikiMatrix: Mining 135M Parallel Sentences in 1620 Language Pairs from Wikipedia

Holger Schwenk;Vishrav Chaudhary;Shuo Sun;Hongyu Gong

331
Citations
Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing.

Alexis Conneau;Holger Schwenk;Loïc Barrault;Yann LeCun

308
Citations
DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance

Unknown

278
Citations
XNLI: Evaluating Cross-lingual Sentence Representations

Alexis Conneau;Guillaume Lample;Ruty Rinott;Adina Williams

232
Citations
Learning Joint Multilingual Sentence Representations with Neural Machine Translation

Holger Schwenk;Matthijs Douze

230
Citations
Language recognition using phone latices.

Jean-Luc Gauvain;Abdelkhalek Messaoudi;Holger Schwenk

191
Citations
Training Neural Network Language Models on Very Large Corpora

Holger Schwenk;Jean-Luc Gauvain

184
Citations
Connectionist language modeling for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition

Holger Schwenk;Jean-Luc Gauvain

180
Citations
Continuous Space Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation

Holger Schwenk;Daniel Dechelotte;Jean-Luc Gauvain

133
Citations
CCMatrix: Mining Billions of High-Quality Parallel Sentences on the WEB

Holger Schwenk;Guillaume Wenzek;Sergey Edunov;Edouard Grave

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Luc Gauvain Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur

Lori Lamel University of Paris-Saclay

Yoshua Bengio University of Montreal

Alexis Conneau Facebook (United States)

Philipp Koehn Johns Hopkins University

Marcello Federico Amazon (United States)

Richard Schwartz Brown University

Matthijs Douze Facebook (United States)

Caglar Gulcehre DeepMind (United Kingdom)

Douwe Kiela Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Holger Schwenk Google Scholar page

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