Katrin Erk
Professor
Research
Research Areas:
Research Interests:
- Graded, flexible representations of word meaning that do not need a dictionary
- Combining distributional representations for words (and phrases)
- logic-based representations at the sentence level
Current Research:
Computational Linguistics, specifically Semantics
Research Labs & Affiliations:
- Linguistic Department
- Natural Language Learning reading group
Select Publications
Pengxiang Cheng and Katrin Erk. 2019. Implicit Argument Prediction as Reading Comprehension..
Su Wang, Eric Holgate, Greg Durrett, and Katrin Erk. October 2018. Picking Apart Story Salads. Association for Computational Linguistics. Brussels, Belgium.
Pengxiang Cheng and Katrin Erk. June 2018. Implicit argument prediction with event knowledge. Association for Computational Linguistics. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Su Wang, Greg Durrett, and Katrin Erk. 2018. Modeling semantic plausibility by injecting world knowledge . Association for Computational Linguistics. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Katrin Erk. January 2018. Computational Semantics. .
Awards & Honors
2017 -
CSLI Fellow, Stanford
2013 -
College Research Fellowship, UT Austin
2009 -
Big XII Faculty Fellowship, Dean of Graduate Studies, UT Austin
2008 -
Dean’s Fellowship, Dean of Graduate Studies, UT Austin
2007 -
Summer Research Assignment, Dean of Graduate Studies, UT Austin
1998-2001 -
Doctoral dissertation scholarship of DFG (German Research Foundation)
1995-1998 -
Scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1994-1995 -
Scholarship of DAAD (German academic exchange service)