Vera Demberg

Tug-of-war between idioms’ figurative and literal interpretations in LLMs EACL 2026 Modeling Turn-Taking with Semantically Informed Gestures EACL 2026 ProofTeller: Exposing recency bias in LLM reasoning and its side effects on communication AACL 2025 LLMs syntactically adapt their language use to their conversational partner ACL 2025 Enhancing Spoken Discourse Modeling in Language Models Using Gestural Cues ACL 2025 What Is That Talk About? A Video-to-Text Summarization Dataset for Scientific Presentations ACL 2025 Multimodal Pragmatic Jailbreak on Text-to-image Models ACL 2025 Retrieving Semantics from the Deep: an RAG Solution for Gesture Synthesis CVPR 2025 On Crowdsourcing Task Design for Discourse Relation Annotation COLING 2025 Implicit Discourse Relation Classification For Nigerian Pidgin COLING 2025 ProofTeller: Exposing recency bias in LLM reasoning and its side effects on communication IJCNLP 2025 Human Speech Perception in Noise: Can Large Language Models Paraphrase to Improve It? ACL 2024 Do large language models and humans have similar behaviours in causal inference with script knowledge? NAACL 2024 RST-LoRA: A Discourse-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Long Document Abstractive Summarization NAACL 2024 RSA-Control: A Pragmatics-Grounded Lightweight Controllable Text Generation Framework EMNLP 2024 DiscoGeM 2.0: A Parallel Corpus of English, German, French and Czech Implicit Discourse Relations COLING 2024 Prompting Implicit Discourse Relation Annotation EACL 2024 SpreadNaLa: A Naturalistic Code Generation Evaluation Dataset of Spreadsheet Formulas COLING 2024 Temperature-scaling surprisal estimates improve fit to human reading times – but does it do so for the “right reasons”? ACL 2024 Large language models fail to derive atypicality inferences in a human-like manner ACL 2024 A Parameter-Efficient Multi-Objective Approach to Mitigate Stereotypical Bias in Language Models ACL 2024 SIGA: A Naturalistic NLI Dataset of English Scalar Implicatures with Gradable Adjectives COLING 2024 SciNews: From Scholarly Complexities to Public Narratives – a Dataset for Scientific News Report Generation COLING 2024 Retrieval-Augmented Modular Prompt Tuning for Low-Resource Data-to-Text Generation COLING 2024 Modeling Orthographic Variation Improves NLP Performance for Nigerian Pidgin COLING 2024 Incorporating Distributions of Discourse Structure for Long Document Abstractive Summarization ACL 2023 Exploiting Knowledge about Discourse Relations for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification ACL 2023 Visual Coherence Loss for Coherent and Visually Grounded Story Generation ACL 2023 Revisiting Sample Size Determination in Natural Language Understanding ACL 2023 ChatGPT vs Human-authored Text: Insights into Controllable Text Summarization and Sentence Style Transfer ACL 2023 Few-Shot Pidgin Text Adaptation via Contrastive Fine-Tuning COLING 2022 Programmable Annotation with Diversed Heuristics and Data Denoising COLING 2022 Establishing Annotation Quality in Multi-label Annotations COLING 2022 Zero-shot Script Parsing COLING 2022 Improving Zero-Shot Multilingual Text Generation via Iterative Distillation COLING 2022 Label distributions help implicit discourse relation classification COLING 2022 Two-Stage Movie Script Summarization: An Efficient Method For Low-Resource Long Document Summarization COLING 2022 Jointly Improving Language Understanding and Generation with Quality-Weighted Weak Supervision of Automatic Labeling EACL 2021 Semi-automatic discourse annotation in a low-resource language: Developing a connective lexicon for Nigerian Pidgin EMNLP 2021 A practical perspective on connective generation EMNLP 2021 Does the Order of Training Samples Matter? Improving Neural Data-to-Text Generation with Curriculum Learning EACL 2021 Neural Data-to-Text Generation with LM-based Text Augmentation EACL 2021 Exploring the Potential of Lexical Paraphrases for Mitigating Noise-Induced Comprehension Errors INTERSPEECH 2021 Time-Aware Ancient Chinese Text Translation and Inference IJCNLP 2021 Time-Aware Ancient Chinese Text Translation and Inference ACL 2021 Entity Enhancement for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in the Biomedical Domain ACL 2021 On Training Instance Selection for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation ACL 2021 Entity Enhancement for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in the Biomedical Domain IJCNLP 2021 On Training Instance Selection for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation IJCNLP 2021 Comparison of methods for explicit discourse connective identification across various domains EMNLP 2021 DART: A Lightweight Quality-Suggestive Data-to-Text Annotation Tool COLING 2020 Diverse and Relevant Visual Storytelling with Scene Graph Embeddings CONLL 2020 Story Generation with Rich Details COLING 2020 Diverse and Relevant Visual Storytelling with Scene Graph Embeddings EMNLP 2020 Crowdsourcing Discourse Relation Annotations by a Two-Step Connective Insertion Task ACL 2019 A Hybrid Model for Globally Coherent Story Generation ACL 2019 Next Sentence Prediction helps Implicit Discourse Relation Classification within and across Domains EMNLP 2019 Improving Language Generation from Feature-Rich Tree-Structured Data with Relational Graph Convolutional Encoders EMNLP 2019 Next Sentence Prediction helps Implicit Discourse Relation Classification within and across Domains IJCNLP 2019 Acquiring Annotated Data with Cross-lingual Explicitation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification NAACL 2019 Verb-Second Effect on Quantifier Scope Interpretation NAACL 2019 Do Speakers Produce Discourse Connectives Rationally? ACL 2018 Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research EMNLP 2018 Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Processing Improve Sentence Readability Ranking EACL 2017 Using Explicit Discourse Connectives in Translation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification IJCNLP 2017 On the Need of Cross Validation for Discourse Relation Classification EACL 2017 A Systematic Study of Neural Discourse Models for Implicit Discourse Relation EACL 2017 The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: Designing a Corpus with Variable Information Density INTERSPEECH 2017 From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation COLING 2016 Event participant modelling with neural networks EMNLP 2016 LingoTurk: managing crowdsourced tasks for psycholinguistics NAACL 2016 Improving event prediction by representing script participants NAACL 2016 Roleo: Visualising Thematic Fit Spaces on the Web ACL 2016 Vector-space calculation of semantic surprisal for predicting word pronunciation duration ACL 2015 Vector-space calculation of semantic surprisal for predicting word pronunciation duration IJCNLP 2015 Improving unsupervised vector-space thematic fit evaluation via role-filler prototype clustering NAACL 2015 Incremental Semantic Role Labeling with Tree Adjoining Grammar EMNLP 2014 Syntactic Surprisal Affects Spoken Word Duration in Conversational Contexts CONLL 2012 Implicitness of Discourse Relations COLING 2012 Syntactic Surprisal Affects Spoken Word Duration in Conversational Contexts EMNLP 2012 Syntactic and Semantic Factors in Processing Difficulty: An Integrated Measure ACL 2010 Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at EACL 2009 EACL 2009 A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation ACL 2007 Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion ACL 2007 Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems EACL 2006