🧑‍🔬 Mark Dras

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Macquarie UniversitySydney · Australia1996–2026 · 150 papersEducationEmploymentcurrent🎓The University of MelbourneMelbourne · Australia2025–2026 · 2 paperscurrent🏛️Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationCanberra · Australia2010–2021 · 3 papers🔬Data61Sydney · Australia2020–2021 · 2 papers🎓University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia · United States2000–2004 · 2 papers🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States1995–1999 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Arabic Native Language Identification (2014 · 50 citations)
   Native Language Identification (NLI) predicts an author's first language (L1) from their writing in a second language.
2. Framing Political Bias in Multilingual LLMs Across Pakistani Languages (2026 · 4 citations)
   Most audits of political leaning in LLMs use English or other well-resourced Western languages. This study looks at Pakistan instead, where language is closely bound up with ethnic, religious and regional politics. The authors built a culturally adapted version of the Political Compass Test (PCT). Its 62 statements…
3. SafeConstellations: Mitigating Over-Refusals in LLMs Through Task-Aware Representation Steering (2026 · 1 citation)
   Safety-aligned LLMs often refuse harmless requests when the input text merely contains sensitive material.

All works

13 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Using Dependency-Based Features to Take the ‘Para-farce' out of Paraphrase ↗Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006 · no summary yetStephen Wan et al.2006 · 186 citations
2. Arabic Native Language IdentificationEMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras2014 · 50 citations
3. A Meta-Level Grammar: Redefining Synchronous TAG for Translation and Paraphrase ↗Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetDras, Mark1999 · 33 citations
4. Syntax-based word reordering in phrase-based statistical machine translation: why does it work? ↗Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI: Papers · no summary yetSimon Zwarts, Mark Dras2007 · 22 citations
5. Norwegian Native Language Identification ↗Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetShervin Malmasi, Mark Dras, Irina Temnikova2015 · 19 citations
6. Reluctant Paraphrase: Textual Restructuring under an Optimisation Model ↗arXiv:cmp-lg/9707001 · no summary yetMark Dras1997 · 16 citations
7. Collocations in Multilingual Natural Language Generation: Lexical Functions meet Lexical Functional Grammar ↗Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2011 · no summary yetFrançois Lareau et al.2011 · 13 citations
8. Towards Statistical Paraphrase Generation: Preliminary Evaluations of Grammaticality ↗Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005) · no summary yetStephen Wan et al.2005 · 13 citations
9. A New Subtree-Transfer Approach to Syntax-Based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation ↗Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation · no summary yetMaxim Khalilov, José A. R. Fonollosa, Mark Dras2009 · 11 citations
10. Representing Paraphrases Using Synchronous TAGs ↗35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetDras, Mark1997 · 5 citations
11. Framing Political Bias in Multilingual LLMs Across Pakistani LanguagesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Afrozah Nadeem, Mark Dras, Usman Naseem2026 · 4 citations
12. SafeConstellations: Mitigating Over-Refusals in LLMs Through Task-Aware Representation SteeringAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Utsav Maskey, Sumit Yadav, Mark Dras, et al.2026 · 1 citation
13. Beyond Theoretical Bounds: Empirical Privacy Loss Calibration for Text Rewriting Under Local Differential Privacy ↗arXiv:2603.22968 · no summary yetWeijun Li et al.2026

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Usman Naseem ×2
• Shervin Malmasi
• Sumit Yadav
• Utsav Maskey

Venues

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

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) ×3: ACL 2026 ×2
• 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP): ANLP 2014
• Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI: Papers
• Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
• Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2011
• Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006
• Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
• Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 109 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 21 citing papers with a page here →.

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