Vera Demberg

85 papers · 2006–2026 · 10 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌈 Renaissance Researcher (12) 🏃 Academic Marathon (19) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (12) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (103) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (10) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (3) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (24) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (14) 🔬 Deep Specialist (20) 🏆 Keyword Champion (2) 📈 Trend Setter 💎 Century Club (83) ❓ The Questioner (6) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (292) 🔥 Unstoppable (12) ⚡ Prolific Year (7)

Conferences

ACL (24) COLING (19) EACL (11) EMNLP (11) IJCNLP (7) NAACL (7) CONLL (2) INTERSPEECH (2) AACL (1) CVPR (1)

Top co-authors

Ernie Chang (14) Asad Sayeed (13) Frances Yung (12) Merel Scholman (9) Wei Shi (8) Xudong Hong (8) Dongqi Liu (6) Yifan Wang (6) Hui-Syuan Yeh (5) Xiaoyu Shen (4)

Research topics

Linguistics (1)

Keywords

text generation (12) large language model (10) implicit discourse relation (10) discourse relation (8) natural language generation (7) language model (7) discourse relation classification (6) parallel corpus (5) neural network (5) discourse parsing (5) multimodal learning (4) zero-shot learning (4) few-shot learning (4) machine translation (4) data augmentation (4) data-to-text generation (4) text classification (4) transfer learning (3) data annotation (3) multi-label classification (3)

Papers

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