Paola Merlo

38 papers · 2000–2026 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

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🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) 🏃 Academic Marathon (24) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird

🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) 🐺 Lone Wolf (4) 🏆 Keyword Champion (2) 🔬 Deep Specialist (11) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (96) ⚡ Prolific Year (5) 🚀 Conference Pioneer 📈 Trend Setter 💎 Century Club (36) 🔥 Unstoppable (5) ❓ The Questioner (4)

Conferences

ACL (9) CONLL (9) EMNLP (7) EACL (4) COLING (3) IJCNLP (3) NAACL (3)

Top co-authors

James Henderson (9) Vivi Nastase (6) Haozhou Wang (4) Gabriele Musillo (4) Lonneke van der Plas (4) Chunyang Jiang (4) Maria A. Rodriguez (3) Kristina Gulordava (3) Giuseppe Samo (3) Suzanne Stevenson (3)

Keywords

sentence embedding (5) cross-lingual word embedding (4) word embedding (4) large language model (3) language model (3) neural network (3) transformer model (3) semantic representation (2) adversarial training (2) distributed semantics (2) long-distance dependency (2) adversarial learning (2) word association (2) verb alternation (2) semantic knowledge (2) semantic similarity (2) subject-verb agreement (2) natural language understanding (1) cognitive modeling (1) dependency parsing (1)

Papers

Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and Hebrew EACL 2026 Analogical Structure, Minimal Contextual Cues and Contrastive Distractors: Input Design for Sample-Efficient Linguistic Rule Induction EACL 2026 Are there identifiable structural parts in the sentence embedding whole? EMNLP 2024 Tracking linguistic information in transformer-based sentence embeddings through targeted sparsification ACL 2024 Blackbird Language Matrices Tasks for Generalization EMNLP 2023 Blackbird language matrices (BLM), a new task for rule-like generalization in neural networks: Can Large Language Models pass the test? EMNLP 2023 BLM-AgrF: A New French Benchmark to Investigate Generalization of Agreement in Neural Networks EACL 2023 Grammatical information in BERT sentence embeddings as two-dimensional arrays ACL 2023 BLM-s/lE: A structured dataset of English spray-load verb alternations for testing generalization in LLMs EMNLP 2023 Multi-Adversarial Learning for Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings NAACL 2021 Word associations and the distance properties of context-aware word embeddings EMNLP 2020 Word associations and the distance properties of context-aware word embeddings CONLL 2020 Syntactic Parsing in Humans and Machines ACL 2020 Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings and the Structure of the Human Bilingual Lexicon CONLL 2019 Probing Word and Sentence Embeddings for Long-distance Dependencies Effects in French and English ACL 2019 Weakly-Supervised Concept-based Adversarial Learning for Cross-lingual Word Embeddings EMNLP 2019 Weakly-Supervised Concept-based Adversarial Learning for Cross-lingual Word Embeddings IJCNLP 2019 Vectorial Semantic Spaces Do Not Encode Human Judgments of Intervention Similarity CONLL 2018 CLCL (Geneva) DINN Parser: a Neural Network Dependency Parser Ten Years Later CONLL 2017 Structural and lexical factors in adjective placement in complex noun phrases across Romance languages CONLL 2015 Dependency length minimisation effects in short spans: a large-scale analysis of adjective placement in complex noun phrases ACL 2015 Dependency length minimisation effects in short spans: a large-scale analysis of adjective placement in complex noun phrases IJCNLP 2015 Scaling up Automatic Cross-Lingual Semantic Role Annotation ACL 2011 A Latent Variable Model of Synchronous Syntactic-Semantic Parsing for Multiple Languages CONLL 2009 Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both? ACL 2009 Domain Adaptation with Artificial Data for Semantic Parsing of Speech NAACL 2009 Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both? IJCNLP 2009 Semantic Parsing for High-Precision Semantic Role Labelling CONLL 2008 Unlexicalised Hidden Variable Models of Split Dependency Grammars ACL 2008 A Latent Variable Model of Synchronous Parsing for Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies CONLL 2008 Accurate Parsing of the Proposition Bank NAACL 2006 Accurate Function Parsing EMNLP 2005 Generalised PP-attachment Disambiguation Using Corpus-based Linguistic Diagnostics EACL 2003 Crosslinguistic Transfer in Automatic Verb Classification COLING 2002 A Multilingual Paradigm for Automatic Verb Classification ACL 2002 Using Syntactic Analysis to Increase Efficiency in Visualizing Text Collections COLING 2002 Automatic distinction of arguments and modifiers: the case of prepositional phrases CONLL 2001 Automatic Lexical Acquisition Based on Statistical Distributions COLING 2000