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Zhifei Li

Zhifei Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2009, most of them on Machine translation; often with Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Jason Eisner.

2 papers in our library · 2009

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 17 · 73 works · 990 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 180 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3927

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 Affiliations

🎓University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei · China2025–2026 · 3 paperscurrent🎓Space Engineering UniversityBeijing · China2020–2025 · 13 papers🎓National University of Defense TechnologyChangsha · China2013–2022 · 11 papers🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States2005–2010 · 9 papers🎓Hubei UniversityWuhan · China2006–2024 · 5 papers🎓Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore2003–2005 · 4 papers🏢State Grid Corporation of ChinaBeijing · China2024–2025 · 3 papers🤝Chinese Academy of Fishery SciencesBeijing · China2020–2021 · 2 papers🔬Pearl River Fisheries Research InstituteGuangzhou · China2020–2021 · 2 papers🔬Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced TechnologyShenzhen · China2016–2017 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 11 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Machine translation · 1 work

 Works by year

2000s

20092 papersZhifei Li's papers of 2009

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation Forests (2009 · 194 citations)
    Many training objectives for structured models need statistics summed over every derivation in a packed forest.
  2. Joshua: An Open Source Toolkit for Parsing-Based Machine Translation (2009 · 163 citations)
    Parsing-based statistical MT (Hiero-style hierarchical models and other syntax-driven approaches) had advanced rapidly.

All works

3 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. First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation ForestsConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner2009 · 194 citations
  2. Joshua: An Open Source Toolkit for Parsing-Based Machine TranslationConference on Machine Translation (WMT)Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, et al.2009 · 163 citations
  3. A Scalable Decoder for Parsing-Based Machine Translation with Equivalent Language Model State Maintenance ↗Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-2) · no summary yetZhifei Li, Sanjeev Khudanpur2008 · 75 citations

 Co-authors here

7 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 180 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 11 citing papers with a page here →.

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