Vera Demberg

Orcid: 0000-0002-8834-0020

Affiliations:
  • Saarland University, Cluster of Excellence Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Saarbrücken, Germany
  • Edinburgh University, School of Informatics, UK (former)


According to our database1, Vera Demberg authored at least 135 papers between 2006 and 2024.

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2024
Multimodal Pragmatic Jailbreak on Text-to-image Models.
CoRR, 2024

The Design of Informative Take-Over Requests for Semi-Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Combining Spoken Language and Visual Icons in a Drone-Controller Setting.
CoRR, 2024

Human Speech Perception in Noise: Can Large Language Models Paraphrase to Improve It?
CoRR, 2024

Implicit Discourse Relation Classification For Nigerian Pidgin.
CoRR, 2024

Prompting Implicit Discourse Relation Annotation.
CoRR, 2024

Do large language models and humans have similar behaviours in causal inference with script knowledge?
Proceedings of the 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2024

Generalizing across Languages and Domains for Discourse Relation Classification.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024

RST-LoRA: A Discourse-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Long Document Abstractive Summarization.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

RSA-Control: A Pragmatics-Grounded Lightweight Controllable Text Generation Framework.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

Explaining Critical Situations Over Sensor Data Streams Using Proofs and Natural Language.
Proceedings of the 37th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2024), 2024

DiscoGeM 2.0: A Parallel Corpus of English, German, French and Czech Implicit Discourse Relations.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

SpreadNaLa: A Naturalistic Code Generation Evaluation Dataset of Spreadsheet Formulas.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

SciNews: From Scholarly Complexities to Public Narratives - a Dataset for Scientific News Report Generation.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

SIGA: A Naturalistic NLI Dataset of English Scalar Implicatures with Gradable Adjectives.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

Modeling Orthographic Variation Improves NLP Performance for Nigerian Pidgin.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

Retrieval-Augmented Modular Prompt Tuning for Low-Resource Data-to-Text Generation.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

Temperature-scaling surprisal estimates improve fit to human reading times - but does it do so for the "right reasons"?
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

2023
Perspective Taking Reflects Beliefs About Partner Sophistication: Modern Computer Partners Versus Basic Computer and Human Partners.
Cogn. Sci., December, 2023

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models.
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Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2023

Design Choices for Crowdsourcing Implicit Discourse Relations: Revealing the Biases Introduced by Task Design.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2023

Visual Writing Prompts: Character-Grounded Story Generation with Curated Image Sequences.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2023

Improving fit to human reading times via temperature-scaled surprisal.
CoRR, 2023

Do large language models and humans have similar behaviors in causal inference with script knowledge?
CoRR, 2023

Investigating Explicitation of Discourse Connectives in Translation using Automatic Annotations.
Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

Visual Coherence Loss for Coherent and Visually Grounded Story Generation.
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, 2023

Expert-adapted language models improve the fit to reading times.
Proceedings of the Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference KES-2023, 2023

Tackling Hallucinations in Neural Chart Summarization.
Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2023

Visually Grounded Story Generation Challenge.
Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2023

Word Familiarity Classification From a Single Trial Based on Eye-Movements. A Study in German and English.
Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 2023

Working memory updating modulates adaptation to speaker-specific use of uncertainty expressions.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

What inferences do people actually make upon encountering informationally redundant utterances? An individual differences study.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Incorporating Distributions of Discourse Structure for Long Document Abstractive Summarization.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

ChatGPT vs Human-authored Text: Insights into Controllable Text Summarization and Sentence Style Transfer.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, 2023

Revisiting Sample Size Determination in Natural Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

2022
The effect of domain knowledge and implicitation on discourse relation inferences.
Dialogue Discourse, 2022

A Data-Driven Investigation of Noise-Adaptive Utterance Generation with Linguistic Modification.
Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2022

Barch: an English Dataset of Bar Chart Summaries.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Design Choices in Crowdsourcing Discourse Relation Annotations: The Effect of Worker Selection and Training.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

DiscoGeM: A Crowdsourced Corpus of Genre-Mixed Implicit Discourse Relations.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Logic-Guided Message Generation from Raw Real-Time Sensor Data.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Zero-shot Script Parsing.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

Establishing Annotation Quality in Multi-label Annotations.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

Improving Zero-Shot Multilingual Text Generation via Iterative Distillation.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

Programmable Annotation with Diversed Heuristics and Data Denoising.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

Few-Shot Pidgin Text Adaptation via Contrastive Fine-Tuning.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

Pragmatic comprehension of implicatures - consistency within individuals across types and time.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Pragmatics of Metaphor Revisited: Modeling the Role of Degree and Salience in Metaphor Understanding.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Individual Differences in a Pragmatic Reference Game.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Partner effects and individual differences on perspective taking.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Modeling atypicality inferences in pragmatic reasoning.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021
Exploring the Potential of Lexical Paraphrases for Mitigating Noise-Induced Comprehension Errors.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

The SelectGen Challenge: Finding the Best Training Samples for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2021

Why Do I Have to Take Over Control? Evaluating Safe Handovers with Advance Notice and Explanations in HAD.
Proceedings of the ICMI '21: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2021

Does the Order of Training Samples Matter? Improving Neural Data-to-Text Generation with Curriculum Learning.
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 2021

Neural Data-to-Text Generation with LM-based Text Augmentation.
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 2021

Jointly Improving Language Understanding and Generation with Quality-Weighted Weak Supervision of Automatic Labeling.
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 2021

Logic-Guided Neural Utterance Generation from Drone Sensory Data (Extended Abstract).
Proceedings of the 34th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2021) part of Bratislava Knowledge September (BAKS 2021), 2021

A bathtub by any other name: the reduction of German compounds in predictive contexts.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Recognition of Minimal Pairs in (un)predictive Sentence Contexts in two Types of Noise.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Pragmatics of Metaphor Revisited: Formalizing the Role of Typicality and Alternative Utterances in Metaphor Understanding.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Entity Enhancement for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in the Biomedical Domain.
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

On Training Instance Selection for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation.
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

Time-Aware Ancient Chinese Text Translation and Inference.
Proceedings of The 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021, 2021

2020
Safe Handover in Mixed-Initiative Control for Cyber-Physical Systems.
CoRR, 2020

Unsupervised Pidgin Text Generation By Pivoting English Data and Self-Training.
Proceedings of the 1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020

Diverse and Relevant Visual Storytelling with Scene Graph Embeddings.
Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2020

Story Generation with Rich Details.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

DART: A Lightweight Quality-Suggestive Data-to-Text Annotation Tool.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

Processing particularized pragmatic inferences under load.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019
Learning to Explicitate Connectives with Seq2Seq Network for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 2019

Next Sentence Prediction helps Implicit Discourse Relation Classification within and across Domains.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019

Improving Language Generation from Feature-Rich Tree-Structured Data with Relational Graph Convolutional Encoders.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation, 2019

Crowdsourcing Discourse Relation Annotations by a Two-Step Connective Insertion Task.
Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2019

2018
Acquiring Annotated Data with Cross-lingual Explicitation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification.
CoRR, 2018

Learning distributed event representations with a multi-task approach.
Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2018

Rollenwechsel-English: a large-scale semantic role corpus.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018

A vision-grounded dataset for predicting typical locations for verbs.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018

Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2018

Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies, 2018

Improving Variational Encoder-Decoders in Dialogue Generation.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018

2017
Modelling Semantic Expectation: Using Script Knowledge for Referent Prediction.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2017

Examples and Specifications that Prove a Point: Identifying Elaborative and Argumentative Discourse Relations.
Dialogue Discourse, 2017

Modeling Semantic Expectation: Using Script Knowledge for Referent Prediction.
CoRR, 2017

How consistent are our discourse annotations? Insights from mapping RST-DT and PDTB annotations.
CoRR, 2017

The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: Designing a Corpus with Variable Information Density.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

G-TUNA: a corpus of referring expressions in German, including duration information.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2017

Using Explicit Discourse Connectives in Translation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2017

A Systematic Study of Neural Discourse Models for Implicit Discourse Relation.
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

Do We Need Cross Validation for Discourse Relation Classification?
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Processing Improve Sentence Readability Ranking.
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

Age differences in language comprehension during driving: Recovery from prediction errors is more effortful for older adults.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Crowdsourcing discourse interpretations: On the influence of context and the reliability of a connective insertion task.
Proceedings of the 11th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2017

2016
Search Challenges in Natural Language Generation with Complex Optimization Objectives.
Künstliche Intell., 2016

Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL).
Künstliche Intell., 2016

Neural Network Models for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in English and Chinese without Surface Features.
CoRR, 2016

Thematic fit evaluation: an aspect of selectional preferences.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Evaluating Vector-Space Representations for NLP, 2016

LingoTurk: managing crowdsourced tasks for psycholinguistics.
Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session, 2016

Improving event prediction by representing script participants.
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2016, 2016

Annotating Discourse Relations in Spoken Language: A Comparison of the PDTB and CCR Frameworks.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

How can we adapt generation to the user's cognitive load?
Proceedings of the INLG 2016, 2016

Event participant modelling with neural networks.
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation.
Proceedings of the COLING 2016, 2016

But vs. Although under the microscope.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Roleo: Visualising Thematic Fit Spaces on the Web.
Proceedings of ACL-2016 System Demonstrations, Berlin, Germany, August 7-12, 2016, 2016

2015
Learning to predict script events from domain-specific text.
Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2015

Improving unsupervised vector-space thematic fit evaluation via role-filler prototype clustering.
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2015, The 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 31, 2015

Uniform Surprisal at the Level of Discourse Relations: Negation Markers and Discourse Connective Omission.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 2015

Towards Flexible, Small-Domain Surface Generation: Combining Data-Driven and Grammatical Approaches.
Proceedings of the ENLG 2015, 2015

Semantically underinformative utterances trigger pragmatic inferences.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Vector-space calculation of semantic surprisal for predicting word pronunciation duration.
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

Verb polysemy and frequency effects in thematic fit modeling.
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 2015

2014
Incremental Semantic Role Labeling with Tree Adjoining Grammar.
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2014

Incremental and predictive discourse processing based on causal and concessive discourse markers: ERP studies on German and English.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2013
Incremental, Predictive Parsing with Psycholinguistically Motivated Tree-Adjoining Grammar.
Comput. Linguistics, 2013

Identifying Predictive Collocations.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

The time-course of processing discourse connectives.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Language and cognitive load in a dual task environment.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

The Index of Cognitive Activity as a Measure of Linguistic Processing.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Integration Costs on Auxiliaries? - a self-paced reading study using WebExp.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Pupillometry: the Index of Cognitive Activity in a dual-task study.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Measuring linguistically-induced cognitive load during driving using the ConTRe task.
Proceedings of the Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2013

The semantic augmentation of a psycholinguistically-motivated syntactic formalism.
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 2013

On the Information Conveyed by Discourse Markers.
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 2013

2012
Incremental Neo-Davidsonian semantic construction for TAG.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, 2012

Incremental Derivations in CCG.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, 2012

German and English Treebanks and Lexica for Tree-Adjoining Grammars.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

Syntactic Surprisal Affects Spoken Word Duration in Conversational Contexts.
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 2012

Implicitness of Discourse Relations.
Proceedings of the COLING 2012, 2012

2011
A Strategy for Information Presentation in Spoken Dialog Systems.
Comput. Linguistics, 2011

2010
Syntactic and Semantic Factors in Processing Difficulty: An Integrated Measure.
Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010

2008
A Psycholinguistically Motivated Version of TAG.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks, 2008

Syntactic complexity induces explicit grounding in the Maptask corpus.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

2007
Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion.
Proceedings of the ACL 2007, 2007

A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation.
Proceedings of the ACL 2007, 2007

2006
Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the EACL 2006, 2006


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