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Overview

Katrin Erk is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies, and General Health Professions.

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with topics central to natural language processing and semantics. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Attending to Entities for Better Text Understanding," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Narrative Interpolation for Generating and Understanding Stories," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "The Probabilistic Turn in Semantics and Pragmatics," 2021, Annual Review of Linguistics
  • "How to Marry a Star: Probabilistic Constraints for Meaning in Context," 2023, Journal of Semantics
  • "An analysis of property inference methods," 2022, Natural Language Engineering

The main research topics covered by their work include:

  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Topic Modeling
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Categorization, perception, and language

Frequent publication venues where Katrin Erk has contributed include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Annual Review of Linguistics
  • Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Journal of Semantics

Their collaborative work includes multiple publications with frequent coauthors such as Greg Durrett, Aurélie Herbelot, Gabriella Chronis, Kyle Mahowald, and Sai Vallurupalli.

Best Publications

  • A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context

    Katrin Erk;Sebastian Padó

  • Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

    Katrin Erk;Noah A. Smith

  • Vector Space Models of Word Meaning and Phrase Meaning: A Survey

    Katrin E Erk

  • The SALSA Corpus: a German Corpus Resource for Lexical Semantics

    Aljoscha Burchardt;Katrin Erk;Anette Frank;Andrea Kowalski

  • Inclusive yet Selective: Supervised Distributional Hypernymy Detection

    Stephen Roller;Katrin Erk;Gemma Boleda

  • A Simple, Similarity-based Model for Selectional Preferences

    Katrin Erk

  • SemEval-2007 Task 19: Frame Semantic Structure Extraction

    Collin Baker;Michael Ellsworth;Katrin Erk

  • A flexible, corpus-driven model of regular and inverse selectional preferences

    Katrin Erk;Sebastian Padó;Ulrike Padó

  • Towards a Resource for Lexical Semantics: A Large German Corpus with Extensive Semantic Annotation

    Katrin Erk;Andrea Kowalski;Sebastian Padó;Manfred Pinkal

  • Exemplar-Based Models for Word Meaning in Context

    Katrin Erk;Sebastian Pado

  • SALTO - A Versatile Multi-Level Annotation Tool

    Aljoscha Burchardt;Katrin Erk;Anette Frank;Andrea Kowalski

  • A WordNet Detour to FrameNet

    Aljoscha Burchardt;Katrin Erk;Anette Frank

  • Deep Neural Models of Semantic Shift

    Alex Rosenfeld;Katrin Erk

  • Montague Meets Markov: Deep Semantics with Probabilistic Logical Form

    Islam Beltagy;Cuong Chau;Gemma Boleda;Dan Garrette

  • Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages

    Katrin Erk;Diana McCarthy;Nicholas Gaylord

  • What Substitutes Tell Us - Analysis of an "All-Words" Lexical Substitution Corpus

    Gerhard Kremer;Katrin Erk;Sebastian Padó;Stefan Thater

  • Measuring Word Meaning in Context

    Katrin E Erk;Diana McCarthy;Nicholas Gaylord

  • Shalmaneser - A Toolchain For Shallow Semantic Parsing

    Katrin Erk;Sebastian Padó

  • Relations such as Hypernymy: Identifying and Exploiting Hearst Patterns in Distributional Vectors for Lexical Entailment

    Stephen Roller;Katrin Erk

  • Representing words as regions in vector space

    Katrin Erk

  • Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

    Katrin Erk;Noah A. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian Padó
Sebastian Padó University of Stuttgart
Raymond J. Mooney
Raymond J. Mooney The University of Texas at Austin
Jason Baldridge
Jason Baldridge Google (United States)
Diana McCarthy
Diana McCarthy University of Cambridge
Noah A. Smith
Noah A. Smith University of Washington
Carlo Strapparava
Carlo Strapparava Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin University of Waterloo
Marco Baroni
Marco Baroni Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Byron C. Wallace
Byron C. Wallace Northeastern University
Ido Dagan
Ido Dagan Bar-Ilan University

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