Publications
Drafts
Katrin Erk and Aurelie Herbelot. How to marry a star: probabilistic constraints for meaning in context. To appear in: Journal of Semantics.
2023
Gabriella Chronis, Kyle Mahowald and Katrin Erk. A Method for Studying Semantic Construal in Grammatical Constructions with Interpretable Contextual Embedding Spaces. Proceedings of ACL.
Katrin Erk and Gabriella Chronis. Word embeddings are word story embeddings (and that’s fine). In: Shalom Lappin and Jean-Philippe Bernardy (eds.), Algebraic Structures in Natural Language, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton and Oxford.
2022
Sai Vallurupalli, Sayontan Ghosh, Katrin Erk, Niranjan Balasubramanian, and Francis Ferraro. POQue: Asking Participant-specific Outcome Questions for a Deeper Understanding of Complex Events. Proceedings of EMNLP
Alex Rosenfeld and Katrin Erk. An analysis of property inference methods. Natural Language Engineering.
Venelin Kovatchev, Trina Chatterjee, Venkata S Govindarajan, Jifan Chen, Eunsol Choi, Gabriella Chronis, Anubrata Das, Katrin Erk, Matthew Lease, Junyi Jessy Li, Yating Wu, and Kyle Mahowald. Longhorns at DADC 2022: How many linguists does it take to fool a Question Answering model? A systematic approach to adversarial attacks. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Dynamic Adversarial Data Collection (DADC). 2022
Katrin Erk. Understanding the combined meanings of words. News & views text (short summary of a paper by Toneva, Mitchell and Wehbe), Nature Computational Science.
2021
Eric Holgate and Katrin Erk. "Politeness, you simpleton!" retorted [MASK]: Masked prediction of literary characters. Proceedings of IWCS.
Elisa Ferracane, Greg Durrett, Junyi Jessy Li and Katrin Erk. Did they answer? Subjective acts and intents in conversational discourse. Proceedings of NAACL.
Katrin Erk. Variations on abstract semantic spaces. In: R. Nefdt, C. Klippi, B. Carstens (eds.), The Philosophy and Science of Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Palgrave MacMillan. Email me if you want a copy.
Katrin Erk. The probabilistic turn in semantics and pragmatics. Annual Review of Lingustics, Vol. 8. e-print link: http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/VXJ8JHTSM934FS3HXHYM/full/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-015515
2020
Gabriella Chronis and Katrin Erk. When is a bishop not like a rook? When it's like a rabbi! Multi-prototype BERT embeddings for estimating semantic relationships. Proceedings of CoNLL.
Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, Benjamin Chen, Rebecca Warholic, Katrin Erk and Junyi Jessy Li. Help! Need Advice on Identifying Advice. Proceedings of EMNLP.
Yejin Cho, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Yifan Gao, and Katrin Erk. Leveraging WordNet Paths for Neural Hypernym Prediction. Proceedings of COLING.
Pengxiang Cheng and Katrin Erk. Attending to entities for better text understanding. Proceedings of AAAI.
2019
Su Wang, Greg Durrett, Katrin Erk. Query-Focused Scenario Construction. Proceedings of EMNLP.
Elisa Ferracane, Greg Durrett, Junyi Jessy Li, and Katrin Erk. Evaluating Discourse in Structured Text Representations. Proceedings of ACL.
Pengxiang Cheng and Katrin Erk. Implicit Argument Prediction as Reading Comprehension. Proceedings of AAAI.
Elisa Ferracane, Titan Page, Junyi Jessy Li, Katrin Erk. From News to Medical: Cross-domain Discourse Segmentation. Proceedings of NAACL DISRPT Workshop
Pengxiang Cheng, Alexander Tomkovich, Eric Holgate, Su Wang, and Katrin Erk. The UTexas system for TAC 2019 SM-KBP Task 3: Hypothesis detection with graph convolutional networks. Proceedings of the 2019 Text Analysis Conference (TAC).
2018
Su Wang, Eric Holgate, Greg Durrett, and Katrin Erk. Picking Apart Story Salads. Proceedings of EMNLP. Code and data.
Pengxiang Cheng and Katrin Erk. Implicit argument prediction with event knowledge. Proceedings of NAACL.
Alex Rosenfeld and Katrin Erk. Deep Neural Models of Semantic Shift. Proceedings of NAACL.
Su Wang, Greg Durrett, and Katrin Erk. Modeling semantic plausibility by injecting world knowledge. Proceedings of NAACL.
Katrin Erk. Computational Semantics. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. January 2018.
2017
Su Wang, Stephen Roller, and Katrin Erk. Distributional modeling on a diet: one-shot learning from text only. IJCNLP 2017.
2016
Stephen Roller and Katrin Erk. Relations such as Hypernymy: Identifying and Exploiting Hearst Patterns in Distributional Vectors for Lexical Entailment. Proceedings of EMNLP.
Stephen Roller and Katrin Erk. PIC a Different Word: A Simple Model for Lexical Substitution in Context. Proceedings of NAACL.
Katrin Erk. What do you know about an alligator when you know the company it keeps? Semantics and Pragmatics Vol. 9, 1-63.
Iz Beltagy, Stephen Roller, Pengxiang Cheng, Katrin Erk,and Raymond J. Mooney. Representing meaning with a combination of logical and distributional models. Computational Linguistics 42(4), special issue on formal distributional semantics.
Diana McCarthy, Marianna Apidianaki, and Katrin Erk. Word sense clustering and clusterability. Computational Linguistics 42(2), 245-275.
Elisa Ferracane, Ian Marshall, Byron Wallace, and Katrin Erk. Leveraging coreference to identify arms in medical abstracts: An experimental study. Seventh International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI) at EMNLP.
2015
Iz Beltagy and Katrin Erk. On the Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Probabilistic Logic Semantics. Proceedings of IWCS.
Gemma Boleda and Katrin Erk. Distributional Semantic Features as Semantic Primitives – or Not. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Integrating Symbolic and Neural Approaches. Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium. Palo Alto, California: AAAI Press.
2014
Stephen Roller, Katrin Erk, and Gemma Boleda. Inclusive yet selective: supervised distributional hypernymy detection. Proceedings of CoLing 2014.
Gerhard Kremer, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó and Stefan Thater. What Substitutes Tell Us - Analysis of an "All-Words" Lexical Substitution Corpus. Proceedings of EACL 2014.
Iz Beltagy, Katrin Erk and Raymond Mooney. Probabilistic Soft Logic for Semantic Textual Similarity. Proceedings of ACL 2014.
Iz Beltagy, Katrin Erk and Raymond Mooney. Semantic Parsing using Distributional Semantics and Probabilistic Logic. Extended abstract. Proceedings of ACL 2014 Workshop on Semantic Parsing (SP-2014).
Iz Beltagy, Stephen Roller, Gemma Boleda, Katrin Erk, and Ray Mooney. UTexas: Natural Language Semantics using Distributional Semantics and Probabilistic Logic. Proceedings of SemEval 2014.
Katrin Erk. Who evoked that frame? Some thoughts on context effects and event types. Invited abstract, Proceedings of Frame Semantics in NLP: A Workshop in Honor of Chuck Fillmore (1929-2014).
2013
Iz Beltagy, Chau Kim Cuong, Gemma Boleda, Dan Garrette, Katrin Erk, and Raymond Mooney. Montague meets Markov: Deep semantics with probabilistic logical form. Proceedings of *SEM 2013.
Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy, and Nicholas Gaylord. Measuring word meaning in context. Computational Linguistics 39(3), 511-554, September 2013.
Taesun Moon and Katrin Erk. An inference-based model of word meaning in context as a paraphrase distribution. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 4(3), Special issue on Paraphrasing, June 2013.
Katrin Erk. Towards a semantics for distributional representations. Proceedings of IWCS 2013.
Dan Garrette, Katrin Erk, and Ray Mooney. A Formal Approach to Linking Logical Form and Vector-Space Lexical Semantics. In Computing Meaning, Vol. 4, H. Bunt, J. Bos and S. Pulman (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, pp. 27-48, 2013. Email me if you would like a copy.
2012
Katrin Erk. Vector space models of word meaning and phrase meaning: a survey. Language and Linguistics Compass 6(10), 635-653, October 2012. Email me if you would like a copy.
2011
Dan Garrette, Katrin Erk and Raymond Mooney. Integrating Logical Representations with Probabilistic Information using Markov Logic. Proceedings of IWCS 2011.
Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Katrin Erk. Simple unsupervised grammar induction from raw text with cascaded finite state models. Proceedings of ACL HLT 2011.
2010
Katrin Erk, Sebastian Pado, and Ulrike Pado. A Flexible, Corpus-driven Model of Regular and Inverse Selectional Preferences. Computational Linguistics 36(4), 723-763, December 2010.
Alexis Palmer, Taesun Moon, Jason Baldridge, Katrin Erk, Eric Campbell, Telma Can. Computational strategies for reducing annotation effort in language documentation. LiLT Volume 3, Issue 4, February 2010. Copyright 2010, CSLI Publications.
Taesun Moon, Katrin Erk, and Jason Baldridge. Crouching Dirichlet, Hidden Markov Model: Unsupervised POS Tagging with Context Local Tag Generation. Proceedings of EMNLP.
Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. Exemplar-Based Models for Word Meaning In Context. Proceedings of ACL 2010.
Katrin Erk. What is word meaning, really? (And how can distributional models help us describe it?) Invited paper. Proceedings of the workshop on Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (GEMS). Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.
Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge, and Katrin Erk. Simple Unsupervised Identification of Low-level Constituents. Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing. Pittsburg, PA, 2010.
Mike Speriosu, Travis Brown, Taesun Moon, Jason Baldridge, and Katrin Erk. Connecting Language and Geography with Region-Topic Models. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation. Portland, Oregon. TextGrounder code
2009
Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy and Nicholas Gaylord. Investigations on Word Senses and Word Usages. Proceedings of ACL 2009.
Katrin Erk and Diana McCarthy. Graded word sense assignment. Proceedings of EMNLP 2009.
Taesun Moon, Katrin Erk, and Jason Baldridge. Unsupervised morphological segmentation and clustering with document boundaries. Proceedings of EMNLP 2009.
Amaç Herdağdelen, Marco Baroni and Katrin Erk. Measuring semantic relatedness with vector space models and random walks. Proceedings of TextGraphs 2009.
Katrin Erk. Representing words as regions in vector space. Proceedings of CoNLL 2009.
Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. Paraphrase assessment in structured vector space: Exploring parameters and datasets. Proceedings of the EACL Workshop on Geometrical Methods for Natural Language Semantics (GEMS).
Katrin Erk. Supporting inferences in semantic space: representing words as regions. Proceedings of IWCS 2009.
Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, Anette Frank, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Pado, and Manfred Pinkal. Using FrameNet for the semantic analysis of German: annotation, representation, and automation. In Hans Boas (ed.): Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications. Mouton de Guyter. Email me if you would like a copy.
2008
Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. A structured vector space model for word meaning in context. Proceedings of EMNLP 2008.
Oliver Culo, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Pado and Sabine Schulte im Walde. Comparing and Combining Semantic Verb Classifications. Language Resources and Evaluation 42(3), 2008. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com, doi:10.1007/s10579-008-9070-z
Taesun Moon and Katrin Erk. Minimally supervised lemmatization scheme induction through bilingual parallel corpora. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources. Hong Kong, 2008.
Jason Baldridge and Katrin Erk. Teaching computational linguistics to a large, diverse student body: courses, tools, and interdepartmental interaction. In Proceedings of TeachCL-08. Columbus, OH, 2008.
2007
Katrin Erk. A simple, similarity-based model for selectional preferences. Proceedings of ACL 2007. Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
Sebastian Pado, Ulrike Pado and Katrin Erk. Flexible, corpus-based modelling of human plausibility judgements. Proceedings of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
Alexis Palmer and Katrin Erk. IGT-XML: an XML format for interlinearized glossed texts. Proceedings of the Linguistics Annotation Workshop (LAW-07). Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. Towards a computational model of gradience in word sense. Proceedings of IWCS-7, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2007
Katrin Erk and Joachim Niehren. Dominance Constraints in Stratified Context Unification, Information Processing Letters 101(4), 141-147
Colin Baker, Michael Ellsworth, and Katrin Erk. SemEval 2007 Task 19: Frame Semantic Structure Extraction. Proceedings of SemEval 2007. Prague, Czech Republic, 2007
2006
Katrin Erk. Unknown word sense detection as outlier detection. Proceedings of NAACL-06, New York.
Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. Shalmaneser -- a toolchain for shallow semantic parsing. Proceedings of LREC-06, Genoa.
Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, Anette Frank, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Pado and Manfred Pinkal. The SALSA corpus: a German corpus resource for lexical semantics. Proceedings of LREC-06, Genoa.
Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, Anette Frank, Andrea Kowalski, and Sebastian Pado. SALTO: a versatile multi-level annotation tool. Proceedings of LREC-06, Genoa.
Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, Anette Frank, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Pado and Manfred Pinkal. Consistency and coverage: challenges for exhaustive semantic annotation. DGFS-06, Bielefeld.
2005
Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. Analysing models for semantic role assignment using confusability. Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP-05, Vancouver, Canada.
Sebastian Pado and Katrin Erk. To cause or not to cause: Cross-lingual semantic matching for paraphrase modelling. Proceedings of the Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Katrin Erk. Frame assignment as word sense disambiguation. Proceedings of IWCS 6, Tilburg.
Sabine Schulte im Walde and Katrin Erk. A comparison of German semantic verb classifications. Proceedings of IWCS 6, Tilburg.
Aljoscha Burchardt, Katrin Erk, and Anette Frank. A WordNet detour to FrameNet. Proceedings of the GLDV 2005 workshop GermaNet II, Bonn.
2004
Katrin Erk and Sebastian Pado. A powerful and versatile XML Format for representing role-semantic annotation. Proceedings of LREC-2004, Lisbon.
Michael Ellsworth, Katrin Erk, Paul Kingsbury, and Sebastian Pado. PropBank, SALSA, and FrameNet: How design determines product. Proceedings of the LREC 2004 Workshop on Building Lexical Resources from Semantically Annotated Corpora, Lisbon.
Ulrike Baldewein, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Pado, and Detlef Prescher. Semantic role labeling with similarity-based generalization using EM-based clustering. Proceedings of Senseval-3, Barcelona.
Ulrike Baldewein, Katrin Erk, Sebastian Pado, and Detlef Prescher. Semantic role labelling for chunk sequences. Proceedings of the CoNLL'04 shared task, Boston.
Ulrich Heid, Holger Voormann, Jan-Torsten Milde, Ulrike Gut, Katrin Erk, and Sebastian Pado. Querying both time-aligned and hierarchical corpora with NXT search. Proceedings of LREC-2004, Lisbon.
Anette Frank and Katrin Erk. Towards an LFG Syntax-Semantics interface for frame semantics annotation. Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2004).
2003
Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Pado and Manfred Pinkal. Towards a resource for lexical semantics: A large German corpus with extensive semantic annotation. Proceedings of ACL 2003, Sapporo.
Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski and Manfred Pinkal. A corpus resource for lexical semantics. Proceedings of IWCS5, Tilburg.
Katrin Erk and Joachim Niehren. Well-nested parallelism constraints for ellipsis resolution. Proceedings of EACL'03, Budapest.
Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski, Sebastian Pado and Manfred Pinkal. Building a resource for lexical semantics. Proceedings of the XVII International Congress of Linguists(CIL), Prague.
Katrin Erk, Andrea Kowalski, and Sebastian Pado. The SALSA Annotation Tool. Proceedings of the 6th Lorraine-Saarland Workshop, Nancy.
2002
Katrin Erk. Parallelism constraints in underspecified semantics. PhD thesis.
Katrin Erk, Alexander Koller, and Joachim Niehren. Processing underspecified semantic representations in the constraint language for lambda structures. Journal of Language & Computation 1/2003.
Katrin Erk and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff. A constraint-programming approach to parsing with resource-sensitive Categorial Grammar. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming (NLULP'02), Copenhagen.
2001
Katrin Erk and Alexander Koller. VP ellipsis by tree surgery. Proceedings of the 13th Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam.
Markus Egg and Katrin Erk. A compositional account of VP ellipsis. Proceedings of HPSG-2001, Trondheim.
Manuel Bodirsky, Katrin Erk, Alexander Koller, and Joachim Niehren. Underspecified beta reduction. Proceedings of the 39th ACL, Toulouse.
Manuel Bodirsky, Katrin Erk, Alexander Koller, and Joachim Niehren. Beta reduction constraints. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA), Utrecht.
2000
Katrin Erk and Lutz Priese. Theoretische Informatik. Eine umfassende Einführung. Springer Verlag, 2000.
Katrin Erk and Joachim Niehren. Parallelism constraints. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA), Norwich, U.K., 2000. Springer Verlag.
Katrin Erk. Die Verarbeitung von Parallelismus-Constraints. Tagungsband der GI-Jahrestagung 2000, Springer Verlag.
1999
Katrin Erk. Simulating Boolean circuits by finite splicing. Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), Washington D.C., USA, July 6-9, 1999.
1998
Katrin Erk. Splicing. Diploma thesis, Universität Koblenz-Landau.