| 2026 | ACL | SemCSE-Multi: Multifaceted and Decodable Embeddings for Aspect-Specific and Interpretable Scientific Domain Mapping. | Marc Felix Brinner, Sina Zarrie |
| 2026 | ACL | Prompting Across Time: Evaluating LLMs on Historical and Contemporary Offensive Language. | Sanne Hoeken, Sophie Jasmin Spliethoff, Silke Schwandt, zge Alaam, Sina Zarrie |
| 2026 | ACL | Talking to a Know-It-All GPT or a Second-Guesser Claude? How Repair reveals distinct Multi-Turn Behavior in LLMs. | Clara Lachenmaier, Hannah Bultmann, Sina Zarrie |
| 2026 | ACL | How Hypocritical Is Your LLM judge? Listener-Speaker Asymmetries in the Pragmatic Competence of Large Language Models. | Judith Sieker, Sina Zarrie |
| 2026 | CoNLL | Child-directed speech facilitates production, not comprehension, in BabyLMs. | Bastian Bunzeck, Sina Zarrie |
| 2026 | EACL | Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty Judgments: Moderate Correlations and Divergent Scaling Effects Revealed by Corpus-Based and Synthetic Datasets. | Omar Momen, Emilie Sitter, J. Berenike Herrmann, Sina Zarrie |
| 2025 | ACL | Subword models struggle with word learning, but surprisal hides it. | Bastian Bunzeck, Sina Zarrie |
| 2025 | ACL | Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks? | Simeon Junker, Manar Ali, Larissa Koch, Sina Zarrie, Hendrik Buschmeier |
| 2025 | ACL | SceneGram: Conceptualizing and Describing Tangrams in Scene Context. | Simeon Junker, Sina Zarrie |
| 2025 | ACL | Can LLMs Ground when they (Don't) Know: A Study on Direct and Loaded Political Questions. | Clara Lachenmaier, Judith Sieker, Sina Zarrie |
| 2025 | CogSci | Instruction tuning modulates discourse biases in language models. | Florian Kankowski, Torgrim Solstad, Sina Zarrie, Oliver Bott |
| 2025 | CogSci | LLMs Struggle to Reject False Presuppositions when Misinformation Stakes are High. | Judith Sieker, Clara Lachenmaier, Sina Zarrie |
| 2025 | COLING | Small Language Models Also Work With Small Vocabularies: Probing the Linguistic Abilities of Grapheme- and Phoneme-Based Baby Llamas. | Bastian Bunzeck, Daniel Duran, Leonie Schade, Sina Zarrie |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Disentangling Subjectivity and Uncertainty for Hate Speech Annotation and Modeling using Gaze. | zge Alaam, Sanne Hoeken, Andreas Suberli, Hannes Grner, Diego Frassinelli, Sina Zarrie, Barbara Plank |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Enhancing Domain-Specific Encoder Models with LLM-Generated Data: How to Leverage Ontologies, and How to Do Without Them. | Marc Felix Brinner, Tarek Al Mustafa, Sina Zarrie |
| 2025 | EMNLP | SemCSE: Semantic Contrastive Sentence Embeddings Using LLM-Generated Summaries For Scientific Abstracts. | Marc Felix Brinner, Sina Zarrie |
| 2024 | COLING | Conceptual Pacts for Reference Resolution Using Small, Dynamically Constructed Language Models: A Study in Puzzle Building Dialogues. | Julian Hough, Sina Zarrie, Casey Kennington, David Schlangen, Massimo Poesio |
| 2024 | COLING | Plots Made Quickly: An Efficient Approach for Generating Visualizations from Natural Language Queries. | Henrik Voigt, Kai Lawonn, Sina Zarrie |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Eyes Don't Lie: Subjective Hate Annotation and Detection with Gaze. | zge Alaam, Sanne Hoeken, Sina Zarrie |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Rationalizing Transformer Predictions via End-To-End Differentiable Self-Training. | Marc Felix Brinner, Sina Zarrie |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Evaluating Diversity in Automatic Poetry Generation. | Yanran Chen, Hannes Grner, Sina Zarrie, Steffen Eger |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Hateful Word in Context Classification. | Sanne Hoeken, Sina Zarrie, zge Alaam |
| 2024 | EMNLP | The Illusion of Competence: Evaluating the Effect of Explanations on Users' Mental Models of Visual Question Answering Systems. | Judith Sieker, Simeon Junker, Ronja Utescher, Nazia Attari, Heiko Wersing, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrie |
| 2024 | HRI | Towards Understanding the Entanglement of Human Stereotypes and System Biases in Human-Robot Interaction. | Clara Lachenmaier, Eleonore Lumer, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrie |
| 2024 | INLG | Resilience through Scene Context in Visual Referring Expression Generation. | Simeon Junker, Sina Zarrie |
| 2023 | ACL | Model Interpretability and Rationale Extraction by Input Mask Optimization. | Marc Felix Brinner, Sina Zarrie |
| 2023 | EACL | Paparazzi: A Deep Dive into the Capabilities of Language and Vision Models for Grounding Viewpoint Descriptions. | Henrik Voigt, Jan N. Hombeck, Monique Meuschke, Kai Lawonn, Sina Zarrie |
| 2023 | EMNLP | VIST5: An Adaptive, Retrieval-Augmented Language Model for Visualization-oriented Dialog. | Henrik Voigt, Nuno Carvalhais, Monique Meuschke, Markus Reichstein, Sina Zarrie, Kai Lawonn |
| 2023 | INLG | Beyond the Bias: Unveiling the Quality of Implicit Causality Prompt Continuations in Language Models. | Judith Sieker, Oliver Bott, Torgrim Solstad, Sina Zarrie |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | Indirect Politeness of Disconfirming Answers to Humans and Robots. | Eleonore Lumer, Clara Lachenmaier, Sina Zarrie, Hendrik Buschmeier |
| 2022 | COLING | Exploring Semantic Spaces for Detecting Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency. | zge Alaam, Simeon Schz, Martin Wegrzyn, Johanna Kiler, Sina Zarrie |
| 2022 | EMNLP | KeywordScape: Visual Document Exploration using Contextualized Keyword Embeddings. | Henrik Voigt, Monique Meuschke, Sina Zarrie, Kai Lawonn |
| 2022 | IJCAI | Leveraging the Wikipedia Graph for Evaluating Word Embeddings. | Joachim Giesen, Paul Kahlmeyer, Frank Nussbaum, Sina Zarrie |
| 2022 | IJCNLP | Modeling Referential Gaze in Task-oriented Settings of Varying Referential Complexity. | zge Alaam, Eugen Ruppert, Sina Zarrie, Ganeshan Malhotra, Chris Biemann |
| 2022 | LREC | Exploring Text Recombination for Automatic Narrative Level Detection. | Nils Reiter, Judith Sieker, Svenja Guhr, Evelyn Gius, Sina Zarrie |
| 2022 | NAACL | The Why and The How: A Survey on Natural Language Interaction in Visualization. | Henrik Voigt, zge Alaam, Monique Meuschke, Kai Lawonn, Sina Zarrie |
| 2021 | IJCAI | Method of Moments for Topic Models with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Features. | Joachim Giesen, Paul Kahlmeyer, Sren Laue, Matthias Mitterreiter, Frank Nussbaum, Christoph Staudt, Sina Zarrie |
| 2021 | INLG | Decoding, Fast and Slow: A Case Study on Balancing Trade-Offs in Incremental, Character-level Pragmatic Reasoning. | Sina Zarrie, Hendrik Buschmeier, Ting Han, Simeon Schz |
| 2021 | Interspeech | Effects of Time Pressure and Spontaneity on Phonotactic Innovations in German Dialogues. | Petra Wagner, Sina Zarrie, Joana Cholin |
| 2021 | SIGdial | Diversity as a By-Product: Goal-oriented Language Generation Leads to Linguistic Variation. | Simeon Schz, Ting Han, Sina Zarrie |
| 2020 | ACL | Knowledge Supports Visual Language Grounding: A Case Study on Colour Terms. | Simeon Schz, Sina Zarrie |
| 2020 | COLING | Humans Meet Models on Object Naming: A New Dataset and Analysis. | Carina Silberer, Sina Zarrie, Matthijs Westera, Gemma Boleda |
| 2020 | INLG | From "Before" to "After": Generating Natural Language Instructions from Image Pairs in a Simple Visual Domain. | Robin Rojowiec, Jana Gtze, Philipp Sadler, Henrik Voigt, Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2020 | LREC | Object Naming in Language and Vision: A Survey and a New Dataset. | Carina Silberer, Sina Zarrie, Gemma Boleda |
| 2019 | ACL | Know What You Don't Know: Modeling a Pragmatic Speaker that Refers to Objects of Unknown Categories. | Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2019 | INLG | Sketch Me if You Can: Towards Generating Detailed Descriptions of Object Shape by Grounding in Images and Drawings. | Ting Han, Sina Zarrie |
| 2019 | INLG | Tell Me More: A Dataset of Visual Scene Description Sequences. | Nikolai Ilinykh, Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2019 | Interspeech | The Greennn Tree - Lengthening Position Influences Uncertainty Perception. | Simon Betz, Sina Zarrie, va Szkely, Petra Wagner |
| 2019 | Interspeech | Do Hesitations Facilitate Processing of Partially Defective System Utterances? An Exploratory Eye Tracking Study. | Kristin Haake, Sarah Schimke, Simon Betz, Sina Zarrie |
| 2018 | INLG | The Task Matters: Comparing Image Captioning and Task-Based Dialogical Image Description. | Nikolai Ilinykh, Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2018 | INLG | Decoding Strategies for Neural Referring Expression Generation. | Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2017 | ACL | Obtaining referential word meanings from visual and distributional information: Experiments on object naming. | Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2017 | EACL | Is this a Child, a Girl or a Car? Exploring the Contribution of Distributional Similarity to Learning Referential Word Meanings. | Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2017 | EMNLP | Deriving continous grounded meaning representations from referentially structured multimodal contexts. | Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2017 | INLG | The Code2Text Challenge: Text Generation in Source Libraries. | Kyle Richardson, Sina Zarrie, Jonas Kuhn |
| 2017 | INLG | Refer-iTTS: A System for Referring in Spoken Installments to Objects in Real-World Images. | Sina Zarrie, Soledad Lpez Gambino, David Schlangen |
| 2017 | Interspeech | Increasing Recall of Lengthening Detection via Semi-Automatic Classification. | Simon Betz, Jana Voe, Sina Zarrie, Petra Wagner |
| 2017 | SIGdial | Beyond On-hold Messages: Conversational Time-buying in Task-oriented Dialogue. | Soledad Lpez Gambino, Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2016 | ACL | Resolving References to Objects in Photographs using the Words-As-Classifiers Model. | David Schlangen, Sina Zarrie, Casey Kennington |
| 2016 | ACL | Easy Things First: Installments Improve Referring Expression Generation for Objects in Photographs. | Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2016 | INLG | Towards Generating Colour Terms for Referents in Photographs: Prefer the Expected or the Unexpected? | Sina Zarrie, David Schlangen |
| 2016 | LREC | PentoRef: A Corpus of Spoken References in Task-oriented Dialogues. | Sina Zarrie, Julian Hough, Casey Kennington, Ramesh R. Manuvinakurike, David DeVault, Raquel Fernndez, David Schlangen |
| 2013 | ACL | Combining Referring Expression Generation and Surface Realization: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Architectures. | Sina Zarrie, Jonas Kuhn |
| 2013 | CoNLL | LFG-based Features for Noun Number and Article Grammatical Errors. | Gbor Berend, Veronika Vincze, Sina Zarrie, Richrd Farkas |
| 2012 | EACL | To what extent does sentence-internal realisation reflect discourse context? A study on word order. | Sina Zarrie, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn |
| 2012 | EMNLP | Generating Non-Projective Word Order in Statistical Linearization. | Bernd Bohnet, Anders Bjrkelund, Jonas Kuhn, Wolfgang Seeker, Sina Zarrie |
| 2012 | LREC | A Corpus-based Study of the German Recipient Passive. | Patrick Ziering, Sina Zarrie, Jonas Kuhn |
| 2011 | ACL | Underspecifying and Predicting Voice for Surface Realisation Ranking. | Sina Zarrie, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn |
| 2010 | COLING | Cross-Lingual Induction for Deep Broad-Coverage Syntax: A Case Study on German Participles. | Sina Zarrie, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn, Christian Rohrer |
| 2010 | LREC | Design and Development of Part-of-Speech-Tagging Resources for Wolof (Niger-Congo, spoken in Senegal). | Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, Jonas Kuhn, Sina Zarrie |