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Paola Merlo

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

Achievements

πŸƒ Academic Marathon (24) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (7) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (5) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (38) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) 🐺 Lone Wolf (4) πŸ† Keyword Champion (2) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (11) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (96) ⚑ Prolific Year (5) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ’Ž Century Club (36) πŸ”₯ 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