Elamur Research⌕
☰
home / authors / Hale Sirin

Hale Sirin

Hale Sirin has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP, Hebrew & Aramaic, Semitic languages; often with Andrew Caines, Daniel Khashabi, David R. Mortensen.

2 papers in our library · 2024–2025

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 2 · 25 works · 35 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 13 times in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9932

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: Google Scholar · Semantic Scholar · dblp · ACL Anthology

 Affiliations

🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States2017–2026 · 21 papersEmployment · Center for Digital Humanitiescurrent🤝Schmidt SciencesNew York · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksLiterature and Literary Theory · 1 workReligious studies · 1 work

🧭 Topics 4Research subjects and languages the work is about.Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 workBiblical Hebrew · 1 workHebrew & Aramaic · 1 workSemitic languages · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20251 paper20241 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure (2025 · 7 citations)
    LLMs often generate poorly in mid- and low-resource languages, but the reasons are unclear. The authors argue that generation inside the model runs as an implicit two-stage process. Middle layers first work out the answer concept in a way largely independent of the target language. Final layers then render that…
  2. Detecting Narrative Patterns in Biblical Hebrew and Greek (2024 · 3 citations)
    The authors look for recurring narrative patterns ("type-scenes", such as a man meeting a woman by a well, or a hero being tempted) as an information-retrieval task.

All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation FailureInternational Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)Niyati Bafna, Tianjian Li, Kenton Murray, et al.2025 · 7 citations
  2. Detecting Narrative Patterns in Biblical Hebrew and GreekHope McGovern, Hale Sirin, Tom Lippincott, et al.Ancient Hebrew · 3 citations
  3. Dynamic embedded topic models and change-point detection for exploring literary-historical hypotheses ↗Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024) · no summary yetHale Sirin, Tom Lippincott2024 · 2 citations
  4. Cultivar: A Contrastive and Locale-Oriented Translation Benchmark for Investigating Contamination and Localisation Robustness ↗arXiv:2608.09766 · no summary yetPinzhen Chen et al.2026 · 1 citation

 Co-authors here

8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 13 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 4 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated

↑ back to top

This page in Markdown → https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/