Gemma Boleda

34 papers · 2004–2025 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (15) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (6) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (45) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) 🏃 Academic Marathon (21) 🧬 Topic Evolution 💎 Century Club (34) ❓ The Questioner (4) 🔥 Unstoppable (12) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (105)

Conferences

EMNLP (14) ACL (6) COLING (4) CONLL (4) SEMEVAL (3) NAACL (2) EACL (1)

Top co-authors

Laura Aina (7) Marco Baroni (6) Matthijs Westera (5) Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc (4) Sebastian Padó (4) Xixian Liao (4) Kristina Gulordava (3) Toni Badia (3) Carina Silberer (3) Eleonora Gualdoni (3)

Research topics

Linguistics (1)

Keywords

word embedding (4) language model (3) naming variation (3) coreference resolution (3) entity linking (2) language modeling (2) referent predictability (2) masked coreference (2) object naming (2) distributional semantics (2) morphosyntactic type (2) natural language processing (1) named entity recognition (1) multimodal learning (1) cluster analysis (1) zero-shot learning (1) attention mechanism (1) referring expression (1) image retrieval (1) cognitive modeling (1)

Papers

LLMs as a synthesis between symbolic and distributed approaches to language EMNLP 2025

NeLLCom-Lex: A Neural-agent Framework to Study the Interplay between Lexical Systems and Language Use EMNLP 2025

Not a nuisance but a useful heuristic: Outlier dimensions favor frequent tokens in language models EMNLP 2025

Why do objects have many names? A study on word informativeness in language use and lexical systems EMNLP 2024

The Impact of Familiarity on Naming Variation: A Study on Object Naming in Mandarin Chinese CONLL 2023

The Impact of Familiarity on Naming Variation: A Study on Object Naming in Mandarin Chinese EMNLP 2023

Run Like a Girl! Sport-Related Gender Bias in Language and Vision ACL 2023

The interaction between cognitive ease and informativeness shapes the lexicons of natural languages COLING 2022

Communication breakdown: On the low mutual intelligibility between human and neural captioning EMNLP 2022

Challenges in including extra-linguistic context in pre-trained language models ACL 2022

Does referent predictability affect the choice of referential form? A computational approach using masked coreference resolution EMNLP 2021

Does referent predictability affect the choice of referential form? A computational approach using masked coreference resolution CONLL 2021

Controlled tasks for model analysis: Retrieving discrete information from sequences EMNLP 2021

Probing for Referential Information in Language Models ACL 2020

Humans Meet Models on Object Naming: A New Dataset and Analysis COLING 2020

What do Entity-Centric Models Learn? Insights from Entity Linking in Multi-Party Dialogue NAACL 2019

Short-Term Meaning Shift: A Distributional Exploration NAACL 2019

Putting Words in Context: LSTM Language Models and Lexical Ambiguity ACL 2019

AMORE-UPF at SemEval-2018 Task 4: BiLSTM with Entity Library SEMEVAL 2018

How to represent a word and predict it, too: Improving tied architectures for language modelling EMNLP 2018

Instances and concepts in distributional space EACL 2017

The LAMBADA dataset: Word prediction requiring a broad discourse context ACL 2016

Convolutional Neural Network Language Models EMNLP 2016

Distributional vectors encode referential attributes EMNLP 2015

UTexas: Natural Language Semantics using Distributional Semantics and Probabilistic Logic SEMEVAL 2014

Inclusive yet Selective: Supervised Distributional Hypernymy Detection COLING 2014

First Order vs. Higher Order Modification in Distributional Semantics EMNLP 2012

First Order vs. Higher Order Modification in Distributional Semantics CONLL 2012

Distributional Semantics in Technicolor ACL 2012

Regular polysemy: A distributional model SEMEVAL 2012

Modelling Polysemy in Adjective Classes by Multi-Label Classification CONLL 2007

Modelling Polysemy in Adjective Classes by Multi-Label Classification EMNLP 2007

The Influence of Argument Structure on Semantic Role Assignment EMNLP 2004

Acquisition of Semantic Classes for Adjectives from Distributional Evidence COLING 2004