Paola Merlo

According to our database, Paola Merlo authored at least 61 papers between 1992 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:

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2024

Exploring Italian sentence embeddings properties through multi-tasking.

Vivi Nastase, Giuseppe Samo, Chunyang Jiang, Paola Merlo

CoRR, 2024

Exploring syntactic information in sentence embeddings through multilingual subject-verb agreement.

Vivi Nastase, Chunyang Jiang, Giuseppe Samo, Paola Merlo

CoRR, 2024

Tracking linguistic information in transformer-based sentence embeddings through targeted sparsification.

Vivi Nastase, Paola Merlo

CoRR, 2024

Are there identifiable structural parts in the sentence embedding whole?

Vivi Nastase, Paola Merlo

CoRR, 2024

2023

Disentangling continuous and discrete linguistic signals in transformer-based sentence embeddings.

Vivi Nastase, Paola Merlo

CoRR, 2023

Blackbird language matrices (BLM), a new task for rule-like generalization in neural networks: Motivations and Formal Specifications.

Paola Merlo

CoRR, 2023

Grammatical information in BERT sentence embeddings as two-dimensional arrays.

Vivi Nastase, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, 2023

BLM-s/lE: A structured dataset of English spray-load verb alternations for testing generalization in LLMs.

Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase, Chunyang Jiang, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

Blackbird language matrices (BLM), a new task for rule-like generalization in neural networks: Can Large Language Models pass the test?

Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

BLM-AgrF: A New French Benchmark to Investigate Generalization of Agreement in Neural Networks.

Aixiu An, Chunyang Jiang, Maria Andueza Rodriguez, Vivi Nastase, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

Building Structured Synthetic Datasets: The Case of Blackbird Language Matrices (BLMs).

Paola Merlo, Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase, Chunyang Jiang

Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Venice, Italy, November 30, 2023

2022

Beyond the Benchmarks: Toward Human-Like Lexical Representations.

Suzanne Stevenson, Paola Merlo

Frontiers Artif. Intell., 2022

Blackbird's language matrices (BLMs): a new benchmark to investigate disentangled generalisation in neural networks.

Paola Merlo, Aixiu An, Maria Andueza Rodriguez

CoRR, 2022

2021

Multi-Adversarial Learning for Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings.

Haozhou Wang, James Henderson, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2021

2020

Syntactic Parsing in Humans and Machines.

Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2020 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies, 2020

Word associations and the distance properties of context-aware word embeddings.

Maria Andueza Rodriguez, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2020

2019

Weakly-Supervised Concept-based Adversarial Learning for Cross-lingual Word Embeddings.

Haozhou Wang, James Henderson, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings and the Structure of the Human Bilingual Lexicon.

Paola Merlo, Maria Andueza Rodriguez

Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2019

Probing Word and Sentence Embeddings for Long-distance Dependencies Effects in French and English.

Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 2019 ACL Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2019

2018

Festina Lente: A Farewell from the Editor.

Paola Merlo

Comput. Linguistics, 2018

Vectorial Semantic Spaces Do Not Encode Human Judgments of Intervention Similarity.

Paola Merlo, Francesco Ackermann

Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2018

2017

CLCL (Geneva) DINN Parser: a Neural Network Dependency Parser Ten Years Later.

Christophe Moor, Paola Merlo, James Henderson, Haozhou Wang

Proceedings of the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies, 2017

2016

Multi-lingual Dependency Parsing Evaluation: a Large-scale Analysis of Word Order Properties using Artificial Data.

Kristina Gulordava, Paola Merlo

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2016

In Memoriam: Susan Armstrong.

Pierrette Bouillon, Paola Merlo, Gertjan van Noord, Mike Rosner

Comput. Linguistics, 2016

Modifications of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics by Using Word Embeddings.

Haozhou Wang, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, 2016

2015

Predicting Word Order Universals.

Paola Merlo

J. Lang. Model., 2015

Evaluation of Two-level Dependency Representations of Argument Structure in Long-Distance Dependencies.

Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, 2015

Diachronic Trends in Word Order Freedom and Dependency Length in Dependency-Annotated Corpora of Latin and Ancient Greek.

Kristina Gulordava, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, 2015

Structural and lexical factors in adjective placement in complex noun phrases across Romance languages.

Kristina Gulordava, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2015

Dependency length minimisation effects in short spans: a large-scale analysis of adjective placement in complex noun phrases.

Kristina Gulordava, Paola Merlo, Benoît Crabbé

Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2015

2013

Multilingual Joint Parsing of Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies with a Latent Variable Model.

James Henderson, Paola Merlo, Ivan Titov, Gabriele Musillo

Comput. Linguistics, 2013

2011

Scaling up Automatic Cross-Lingual Semantic Role Annotation.

Lonneke van der Plas, Paola Merlo, James Henderson

Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference, 19-24 June, 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2011

2010

Cross-Lingual Validity of PropBank in the Manual Annotation of French.

Lonneke van der Plas, Tanja Samardzic, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2010

Current Trends in Parsing Technology.

Paola Merlo, Harry Bunt, Joakim Nivre

Proceedings of the Trends in Parsing Technology, 2010

2009

Domain Adaptation with Artificial Data for Semantic Parsing of Speech.

Lonneke van der Plas, James Henderson, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, May 31, 2009

Online Graph Planarisation for Synchronous Parsing of Semantic and Syntactic Dependencies.

Ivan Titov, James Henderson, Paola Merlo, Gabriele Musillo

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2009, 2009

A Latent Variable Model of Synchronous Syntactic-Semantic Parsing for Multiple Languages.

Andrea Gesmundo, James Henderson, Paola Merlo, Ivan Titov

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task, 2009

Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both?

Paola Merlo, Lonneke van der Plas

Proceedings of the ACL 2009, 2009

2008

Semantic Parsing for High-Precision Semantic Role Labelling.

Paola Merlo, Gabriele Musillo

Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2008

A Latent Variable Model of Synchronous Parsing for Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies.

James Henderson, Paola Merlo, Gabriele Musillo, Ivan Titov

Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2008

Unlexicalised Hidden Variable Models of Split Dependency Grammars.

Gabriele Antonio Musillo, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the ACL 2008, 2008

2006

The Notion of Argument in Prepositional Phrase Attachment.

Paola Merlo, Eva Esteve Ferrer

Comput. Linguistics, 2006

Accurate Parsing of the Proposition Bank.

Gabriele Musillo, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2006

2005

Accurate Function Parsing.

Paola Merlo, Gabriele Musillo

Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP 2005, 2005

Lexical and Structural Biases for Function Parsing.

Gabriele Musillo, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Parsing Technology, 2005

2003

Generalised PP-attachment Disambiguation Using Corpus-based Linguistic Diagnostics.

Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the EACL 2003, 2003

2002

Using NLP to Efficiently Visualize Text Collections with SOMs.

James Henderson, Paola Merlo, Ivan Petroff, Gerold Schneider

Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002), 2002

Crosslinguistic Transfer in Automatic Verb Classification.

Vivian Tsang, Suzanne Stevenson, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2002

Using Syntactic Analysis to Increase Efficiency in Visualizing Text Collections.

James Henderson, Paola Merlo, Ivan Petroff, Gerold Schneider

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2002

A Multilingual Paradigm for Automatic Verb Classification.

Paola Merlo, Suzanne Stevenson, Vivian Tsang, Gianluca Allaria

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002

2001

Automatic Verb Classification Based on Statistical Distributions of Argument Structure.

Paola Merlo, Suzanne Stevenson

Comput. Linguistics, 2001

Automatic distinction of arguments and modifiers: the case of prepositional phrases.

Paola Merlo, Matthias Leybold

Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2001

2000

Establishing the Upper Bound and Inter-judge Agreement of a Verb Classification Task.

Paola Merlo, Suzanne Stevenson

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2000

Automatic Lexical Acquisition Based on Statistical Distributions.

Suzanne Stevenson, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the COLING 2000, 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, 2 Volumes, July 31, 2000

1999

Automatic Verb Classification Using Distributions of Grammatical Features.

Suzanne Stevenson, Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the EACL 1999, 1999

1998

What grammars tell us about corpora: the case of reduced relative clauses.

Paola Merlo, Suzanne Stevenson

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, 1998

1997

Attaching Multiple Prepositional Phrases: Generalized Backed-off Estimation

Paola Merlo, Matthew W. Crocker, Cathy Berthouzoz

CoRR, 1997

Attaching Multiple Prepositional Phrases: Backed-off Estimation Generalized.

Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 1997

1995

Modularity and Information Content Classes in Principle-based Parsing.

Paola Merlo

Comput. Linguistics, 1995

1993

For an Incremental Computation of Intrasentential Coreference.

Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Chambéry, France, August 28, 1993

1992

An LR Category-Neutral Parser with Left Corner Prediction.

Paola Merlo

Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 28 June, 1992