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Alexander Koller

80 papers · 2000–2025 · 10 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

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Conferences

ACL (33) EMNLP (15) COLING (11) EACL (9) IJCNLP (5) NAACL (3) CONLL (1) ICLR (1) INTERSPEECH (1) SEMEVAL (1)

Top co-authors

Jonas Groschwitz (13) Matthias Lindemann (9) Stefan Thater (8) Lucia Donatelli (6) Fangzhou Zhai (5) Yuekun Yao (5) Ivan Titov (5) Joachim Niehren (5) Kristina Striegnitz (5) MartΓ­n Villalba (4)

Research topics

Natural Language Processing (1)

Keywords

semantic parsing (14) large language model (8) compositional generalization (6) dependency parsing (5) meaning representation (5) benchmark evaluation (4) neural network (4) event extraction (3) sequence-to-sequence model (3) syntactic parsing (3) script parsing (3) transfer learning (2) latent variable model (2) inductive bia (2) semantic representation (2) abstract meaning representation (2) natural language understanding (2) reinforcement learning (2) few-shot learning (2) natural language generation (2)

Papers

A Knapsack by Any Other Name: Presentation impacts LLM performance on NP-hard problems EMNLP 2025
Playpen: An Environment for Exploring Learning From Dialogue Game Feedback EMNLP 2025
Procedural Environment Generation for Tool-Use Agents EMNLP 2025
Evaluating Spatiotemporal Consistency in Automatically Generated Sewing Instructions EMNLP 2025
Language models can learn implicit multi-hop reasoning, but only if they have lots of training data EMNLP 2025
LLMs syntactically adapt their language use to their conversational partner ACL 2025
LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks ACL 2025
Triangulating LLM Progress through Benchmarks, Games, and Cognitive Tests EMNLP 2025
Strengthening Structural Inductive Biases by Pre-training to Perform Syntactic Transformations EMNLP 2024
Simple and effective data augmentation for compositional generalization NAACL 2024
A Corpus of German Abstract Meaning Representation (DeAMR) COLING 2024
ADaPT: As-Needed Decomposition and Planning with Language Models NAACL 2024
Closing the Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration ICLR 2024
Predicting generalization performance with correctness discriminators EMNLP 2024
Scope-enhanced Compositional Semantic Parsing for DRT EMNLP 2024
SIP: Injecting a Structural Inductive Bias into a Seq2Seq Model by Simulation ACL 2024
What’s the Meaning of Superhuman Performance in Today’s NLU? ACL 2023
SLOG: A Structural Generalization Benchmark for Semantic Parsing EMNLP 2023
We’re Afraid Language Models Aren’t Modeling Ambiguity EMNLP 2023
Compositional Generalisation with Structured Reordering and Fertility Layers EACL 2023
Compositional Generalization without Trees using Multiset Tagging and Latent Permutations ACL 2023
Structural generalization is hard for sequence-to-sequence models EMNLP 2022
Zero-shot Script Parsing COLING 2022
Compositional generalization with a broad-coverage semantic parser NAACL 2022
Script Parsing with Hierarchical Sequence Modelling IJCNLP 2021
Script Parsing with Hierarchical Sequence Modelling ACL 2021
Learning compositional structures for semantic graph parsing ACL 2021
Aligning Actions Across Recipe Graphs EMNLP 2021
Learning compositional structures for semantic graph parsing IJCNLP 2021
Normalizing Compositional Structures Across Graphbanks COLING 2020
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data ACL 2020
Story Generation with Rich Details COLING 2020
Generating Instructions at Different Levels of Abstraction COLING 2020
Predicting Coreference in Abstract Meaning Representations COLING 2020
Fast semantic parsing with well-typedness guarantees EMNLP 2020
Compositional Semantic Parsing across Graphbanks ACL 2019
Graph-Based Meaning Representations: Design and Processing ACL 2019
Saarland at MRP 2019: Compositional parsing across all graphbanks CONLL 2019
Semantic Expressive Capacity with Bounded Memory ACL 2019
AMR dependency parsing with a typed semantic algebra ACL 2018
Generalized chart constraints for efficient PCFG and TAG parsing ACL 2018
DialogOS: Simple and Extensible Dialogue Modeling INTERSPEECH 2018
Generating Contrastive Referring Expressions ACL 2017
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers EACL 2017
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers EACL 2017
Alto: Rapid Prototyping for Parsing and Translation EACL 2017
Efficient techniques for parsing with tree automata ACL 2016
The Impact of Listener Gaze on Predicting Reference Resolution ACL 2015
Graph parsing with s-graph grammars IJCNLP 2015
The Impact of Listener Gaze on Predicting Reference Resolution IJCNLP 2015
Graph parsing with s-graph grammars ACL 2015
Potsdam: Semantic Dependency Parsing by Bidirectional Graph-Tree Transformations and Syntactic Parsing SEMEVAL 2014
Predicting the Resolution of Referring Expressions from User Behavior EMNLP 2013
General binarization for parsing and translation ACL 2013
Generation of landmark-based navigation instructions from open-source data EACL 2012
Learning Script Knowledge with Web Experiments ACL 2010
Automated Planning for Situated Natural Language Generation ACL 2010
The Importance of Rule Restrictions in CCG ACL 2010
Computing Weakest Readings ACL 2010
Validating the web-based evaluation of NLG systems IJCNLP 2009
A Logic of Semantic Representations for Shallow Parsing EACL 2009
Dependency Trees and the Strong Generative Capacity of CCG EACL 2009
The Software Architecture for the First Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments EACL 2009
Validating the web-based evaluation of NLG systems ACL 2009
Efficient Processing of Underspecified Discourse Representations ACL 2008
Regular Tree Grammars as a Formalism for Scope Underspecification ACL 2008
Sentence generation as a planning problem ACL 2007
An Improved Redundancy Elimination Algorithm for Underspecified Representations COLING 2006
An Improved Redundancy Elimination Algorithm for Underspecified Representations ACL 2006
Efficient Solving and Exploration of Scope Ambiguities ACL 2005
Computing Locally Coherent Discourses ACL 2004
Talking robots with Lego MindStorms COLING 2004
Minimal Recursion Semantics as Dominance Constraints: Translation, Evaluation, and Analysis ACL 2004
A Relational Syntax-Semantics Interface Based on Dependency Grammar COLING 2004
Underspecification formalisms: Hole semantics as dominance constraints EACL 2003
Natural Language and Inference in a Computer Game COLING 2002
Generation as Dependency Parsing ACL 2002
Underspecified Beta Reduction ACL 2001
A Polynomial-Time Fragment of Dominance Constraints ACL 2000
On Underspecified Processing of Dynamic Semantics COLING 2000