| 2026 | ACL | System-Mediated Attention Imbalances Make Vision-Language Models Say Yes. | Tsan Tsai Chan, Varsha Suresh, Anisha Saha, Michael Hahn, Vera Demberg |
| 2026 | EACL | Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). | Vera Demberg, Kentaro Inui, Llus Mrquez |
| 2026 | EACL | Tug-of-war between idioms' figurative and literal interpretations in LLMs. | Soyoung Oh, Xinting Huang, Mathis Pink, Michael Hahn, Vera Demberg |
| 2026 | EACL | Modeling Turn-Taking with Semantically Informed Gestures. | Varsha Suresh, Muhammad Hamza Mughal, Christian Theobalt, Vera Demberg |
| 2026 | LREC | MUStReason: A Benchmark for Diagnosing Pragmatic Reasoning in VideoLMs for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection. | Anisha Saha, Varsha Suresh, Timothy M. Hospedales, Vera Demberg |
| 2026 | LREC | Human Label Variation in Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition. | Frances Yung, Daniil Ignatev, Merel C. J. Scholman, Vera Demberg, Massimo Poesio |
| 2025 | ACL | What Is That Talk About? A Video-to-Text Summarization Dataset for Scientific Presentations. | Dongqi Liu, Chenxi Whitehouse, Xi Yu, Louis Mahon, Rohit Saxena, Zheng Zhao, Yifu Qiu, Mirella Lapata, Vera Demberg |
| 2025 | ACL | Multimodal Pragmatic Jailbreak on Text-to-image Models. | Tong Liu, Zhixin Lai, Jiawen Wang, Gengyuan Zhang, Shuo Chen, Philip Torr, Vera Demberg, Volker Tresp, Jindong Gu |
| 2025 | ACL | LLMs syntactically adapt their language use to their conversational partner. | Florian Kandra, Vera Demberg, Alexander Koller |
| 2025 | ACL | Enhancing Spoken Discourse Modeling in Language Models Using Gestural Cues. | Varsha Suresh, Muhammad Hamza Mughal, Christian Theobalt, Vera Demberg |
| 2025 | CogSci | An ACT-R model of resource-rational performance in a pragmatic reference game. | John Duff, Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg |
| 2025 | CogSci | People do not engage in ad-hoc reasoning about alternative messages when interacting with a literal speaker. | Alexandra Mayn, John Duff, Natalia Bila, Vera Demberg |
| 2025 | CogSci | Music-induced Positive Mood Stimulates Metaphor Production. | Laura Pissani, Magdalena-Victoria Meiser, Vera Demberg |
| 2025 | COLING | Implicit Discourse Relation Classification For Nigerian Pidgin. | Muhammed Saeed, Peter Bourgonje, Vera Demberg |
| 2025 | COLING | On Crowdsourcing Task Design for Discourse Relation Annotation. | Frances Yung, Vera Demberg |
| 2025 | CVPR | Retrieving Semantics from the Deep: an RAG Solution for Gesture Synthesis. | Muhammad Hamza Mughal, Rishabh Dabral, Merel C. J. Scholman, Vera Demberg, Christian Theobalt |
| 2025 | ETRA | MultiplEYE: Creating a multilingual eye-tracking-while-reading corpus. | Deborah Noemie Jakobi, Maja Stegenwallner-Schtz, Nora Hollenstein, Cui Ding, Ramune Kaspere, Ana Matic Skoric, Eva Pavlinusic Vilus, Stefan Frank, Marie-Luise Mller, Kristine M. Jensen de Lpez, Nik Kharlamov, Hanne B. Sndergaard Knudsen, Yevgeni Berzak, Ella Lion, Irina A. Sekerina, Cengiz Acartrk, Mohd Faizan Ansari, Katarzyna Harezlak, Pawel Kasprowski, Ana Bautista, Lisa Beinborn, Anna Bondar, Antonia Boznou, Leah Bradshaw, Jana Mara Hofmann, Thyra Krosness, Not Battesta Soliva, Anila epani, Kristina Cergol, Ana Dosen, Marijan Palmovic, Adelina erpja, Dal Chirino, Jan Chrom, Vera Demberg, Iza Skrjanec, Nazik Dintopal Deniz, Inmaculada Fajardo, Mariola Gimnez-Salvador, Xavier Mnguez-Lpez, Maros Filip, Zigmunds Freibergs, Jessica Gomes, Andreia Janeiro, Paula Luegi, Joo Verssimo, Sasho Gramatikov, Jana Hasencker, Alba Haveriku, Nelda Kote, Muhammad Mohsin Kamal, Hanna Kedzierska, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Sara Kosutar, Daniel G. Krakowczyk, Izabela Krejtz, Marta Lockiewicz, Kaidi Lo, Jurgita Motiejuniene, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Johanne Sofie Krog Nedergrd, Aysegl zkan, Mikuls Preininger, Loredana Punga, David Robert Reich, Chiara Tschirner, Spela Rot, Andreas Suberli, Jordi Sol-Casals, Ekaterina Strati, Igor Svoboda, Evis Trandafili, Spyridoula Varlokosta, Mila Vulchanova, Lena A. Jger |
| 2025 | IJCNLP | ProofTeller: Exposing recency bias in LLM reasoning and its side effects on communication. | Mayank Jobanputra, Alisa Kovtunova, Brisca Balthes, Fedor Grigoryevich Pogulskiy, Yifan Wang, Stefan Borgwardt, Vera Demberg |
| 2025 | UIST | GestureCoach: Rehearsing for Engaging Talks with LLM-Driven Gesture Recommendations. | Ashwin Ram, Varsha Suresh, Artin Saberpour Abadian, Vera Demberg, Jrgen Steimle |
| 2025 | SIGdial | Synthetic Data Augmentation for Cross-domain Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition. | Frances Yung, Varsha Suresh, Zaynab Reza, Mansoor Ahmad, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | ACL | Temperature-scaling surprisal estimates improve fit to human reading times - but does it do so for the "right reasons"? | Tong Liu, Iza Skrjanec, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | CogSci | Interpreting implausible event descriptions under noise. | Asya Achimova, Marjolein van Os, Vera Demberg, Martin V. Butz |
| 2024 | CogSci | Uniform information density explains subject doubling in French. | Yiming Liang, Pascal Amsili, Heather Burnett, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | CogSci | Adaptation to Speakers is modulated by working memory updating and theory of mind - a study investigating humor comprehension. | Jia E. Loy, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | CogSci | What processing instructions do connectives provide? Modeling the facilitative effect of the connective. | Marian Marchal, Merel Cleo Johanna Scholman, Ted Sanders, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | CogSci | Capable but not cooperative? Perceptions of ChatGPT as a pragmatic speaker. | Alexandra Mayn, Jia E. Loy, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | COLING | Retrieval-Augmented Modular Prompt Tuning for Low-Resource Data-to-Text Generation. | Ruitao Feng, Xudong Hong, Mayank Jobanputra, Mattes Warning, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | COLING | Modeling Orthographic Variation Improves NLP Performance for Nigerian Pidgin. | Pin-Jie Lin, Merel C. J. Scholman, Muhammed Saeed, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | COLING | SIGA: A Naturalistic NLI Dataset of English Scalar Implicatures with Gradable Adjectives. | Rashid Nizamani, Sebastian Schuster, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | COLING | SciNews: From Scholarly Complexities to Public Narratives - a Dataset for Scientific News Report Generation. | Dongqi Liu, Yifan Wang, Jia E. Loy, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | COLING | SpreadNaLa: A Naturalistic Code Generation Evaluation Dataset of Spreadsheet Formulas. | Sebastian Schuster, Ayesha Ansar, Om Agarwal, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | COLING | DiscoGeM 2.0: A Parallel Corpus of English, German, French and Czech Implicit Discourse Relations. | Frances Yung, Merel C. J. Scholman, Srka Ziknov, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | EMNLP | RSA-Control: A Pragmatics-Grounded Lightweight Controllable Text Generation Framework. | Yifan Wang, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | NAACL | RST-LoRA: A Discourse-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Long Document Abstractive Summarization. | Dongqi Liu, Vera Demberg |
| 2024 | SIGdial | Generalizing across Languages and Domains for Discourse Relation Classification. | Peter Bourgonje, Vera Demberg |
| 2023 | ACL | Visual Coherence Loss for Coherent and Visually Grounded Story Generation. | Xudong Hong, Vera Demberg, Asad B. Sayeed, Qiankun Zheng, Bernt Schiele |
| 2023 | ACL | Revisiting Sample Size Determination in Natural Language Understanding. | Ernie Chang, Muhammad Hassan Rashid, Pin-Jie Lin, Changsheng Zhao, Vera Demberg, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra |
| 2023 | ACL | ChatGPT vs Human-authored Text: Insights into Controllable Text Summarization and Sentence Style Transfer. | Dongqi Liu, Vera Demberg |
| 2023 | ACL | Incorporating Distributions of Discourse Structure for Long Document Abstractive Summarization. | Dongqi Liu, Yifan Wang, Vera Demberg |
| 2023 | CogSci | What inferences do people actually make upon encountering informationally redundant utterances? An individual differences study. | Margarita Ryzhova, Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg |
| 2023 | CogSci | Working memory updating modulates adaptation to speaker-specific use of uncertainty expressions. | Sebastian Schuster, Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg |
| 2023 | ETRA | Word Familiarity Classification From a Single Trial Based on Eye-Movements. A Study in German and English. | Margarita Ryzhova, Iza Skrjanec, Nina Quach, Alice Virginia Chase, Emilia Ellsiepen, Vera Demberg |
| 2023 | INLG | Visually Grounded Story Generation Challenge. | Xudong Hong, Khushboo Mehra, Asad B. Sayeed, Vera Demberg |
| 2023 | INLG | Tackling Hallucinations in Neural Chart Summarization. | Saad Obaid ul Islam, Iza Skrjanec, Ondrej Dusek, Vera Demberg |
| 2023 | KES | Expert-adapted language models improve the fit to reading times. | Iza Skrjanec, Frederik Yannick Broy, Vera Demberg |
| 2023 | SIGdial | Investigating Explicitation of Discourse Connectives in Translation using Automatic Annotations. | Frances Yung, Merel C. J. Scholman, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Christina Pollklsener, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | CogSci | Modeling atypicality inferences in pragmatic reasoning. | Ekaterina Kravtchenko, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | CogSci | Partner effects and individual differences on perspective taking. | Jia E. Loy, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | CogSci | Individual Differences in a Pragmatic Reference Game. | Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | CogSci | Pragmatics of Metaphor Revisited: Modeling the Role of Degree and Salience in Metaphor Understanding. | Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | CogSci | Pragmatic comprehension of implicatures - consistency within individuals across types and time. | Margarita Ryzhova, Jia E. Loy, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | COLING | Few-Shot Pidgin Text Adaptation via Contrastive Fine-Tuning. | Ernie Chang, Jesujoba O. Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | COLING | Programmable Annotation with Diversed Heuristics and Data Denoising. | Ernie Chang, Alex Marin, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | COLING | Improving Zero-Shot Multilingual Text Generation via Iterative Distillation. | Ernie Chang, Alex Marin, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | COLING | Establishing Annotation Quality in Multi-label Annotations. | Marian Marchal, Merel C. J. Scholman, Frances Yung, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | COLING | Zero-shot Script Parsing. | Fangzhou Zhai, Vera Demberg, Alexander Koller |
| 2022 | LREC | Logic-Guided Message Generation from Raw Real-Time Sensor Data. | Ernie Chang, Alisa Kovtunova, Stefan Borgwardt, Vera Demberg, Kathryn Chapman, Hui-Syuan Yeh |
| 2022 | LREC | DiscoGeM: A Crowdsourced Corpus of Genre-Mixed Implicit Discourse Relations. | Merel C. J. Scholman, Tianai Dong, Frances Yung, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | LREC | Design Choices in Crowdsourcing Discourse Relation Annotations: The Effect of Worker Selection and Training. | Merel C. J. Scholman, Valentina Pyatkin, Frances Yung, Ido Dagan, Reut Tsarfaty, Vera Demberg |
| 2022 | LREC | Barch: an English Dataset of Bar Chart Summaries. | Iza Skrjanec, Muhammad Salman Edhi, Vera Demberg |
| 2021 | ACL | On Training Instance Selection for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation. | Ernie Chang, Xiaoyu Shen, Hui-Syuan Yeh, Vera Demberg |
| 2021 | ACL | Entity Enhancement for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification in the Biomedical Domain. | Wei Shi, Vera Demberg |
| 2021 | CogSci | Pragmatics of Metaphor Revisited: Formalizing the Role of Typicality and Alternative Utterances in Metaphor Understanding. | Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg |
| 2021 | CogSci | Recognition of Minimal Pairs in (un)predictive Sentence Contexts in two Types of Noise. | Marjolein van Os, Jutta Kray, Vera Demberg |
| 2021 | CogSci | A bathtub by any other name: the reduction of German compounds in predictive contexts. | Alessandra Zarcone, Vera Demberg |
| 2021 | EACL | Jointly Improving Language Understanding and Generation with Quality-Weighted Weak Supervision of Automatic Labeling. | Ernie Chang, Vera Demberg, Alex Marin |
| 2021 | EACL | Neural Data-to-Text Generation with LM-based Text Augmentation. | Ernie Chang, Xiaoyu Shen, Dawei Zhu, Vera Demberg, Hui Su |
| 2021 | EACL | Does the Order of Training Samples Matter? Improving Neural Data-to-Text Generation with Curriculum Learning. | Ernie Chang, Hui-Syuan Yeh, Vera Demberg |
| 2021 | ICMI | Why Do I Have to Take Over Control? Evaluating Safe Handovers with Advance Notice and Explanations in HAD. | Frederik Wiehr, Anke Hirsch, Lukas Schmitz, Nina Knieriemen, Antonio Krger, Alisa Kovtunova, Stefan Borgwardt, Ernie Chang, Vera Demberg, Marcel Steinmetz, Jrg Hoffmann |
| 2021 | INLG | The SelectGen Challenge: Finding the Best Training Samples for Few-Shot Neural Text Generation. | Ernie Chang, Xiaoyu Shen, Alex Marin, Vera Demberg |
| 2021 | Interspeech | Exploring the Potential of Lexical Paraphrases for Mitigating Noise-Induced Comprehension Errors. | Anupama Chingacham, Vera Demberg, Dietrich Klakow |
| 2020 | CogSci | Processing particularized pragmatic inferences under load. | Margarita Ryzhova, Vera Demberg |
| 2020 | COLING | DART: A Lightweight Quality-Suggestive Data-to-Text Annotation Tool. | Ernie Chang, Jeriah Caplinger, Alex Marin, Xiaoyu Shen, Vera Demberg |
| 2020 | COLING | Story Generation with Rich Details. | Fangzhou Zhai, Vera Demberg, Alexander Koller |
| 2020 | CoNLL | Diverse and Relevant Visual Storytelling with Scene Graph Embeddings. | Xudong Hong, Rakshith Shetty, Asad B. Sayeed, Khushboo Mehra, Vera Demberg, Bernt Schiele |
| 2019 | EMNLP | Improving Language Generation from Feature-Rich Tree-Structured Data with Relational Graph Convolutional Encoders. | Xudong Hong, Ernie Chang, Vera Demberg |
| 2019 | EMNLP | Next Sentence Prediction helps Implicit Discourse Relation Classification within and across Domains. | Wei Shi, Vera Demberg |
| 2018 | AAAI | Improving Variational Encoder-Decoders in Dialogue Generation. | Xiaoyu Shen, Hui Su, Shuzi Niu, Vera Demberg |
| 2018 | INLG | Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning. | David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Vera Demberg |
| 2018 | LREC | A vision-grounded dataset for predicting typical locations for verbs. | Nelson Mukuze, Anna Rohrbach, Vera Demberg, Bernt Schiele |
| 2018 | LREC | Rollenwechsel-English: a large-scale semantic role corpus. | Asad B. Sayeed, Pavel Shkadzko, Vera Demberg |
| 2017 | CogSci | Age differences in language comprehension during driving: Recovery from prediction errors is more effortful for older adults. | Katja Huser, Vera Demberg, Jutta Kray |
| 2017 | EACL | Psycholinguistic Models of Sentence Processing Improve Sentence Readability Ranking. | David M. Howcroft, Vera Demberg |
| 2017 | EACL | Do We Need Cross Validation for Discourse Relation Classification? | Wei Shi, Vera Demberg |
| 2017 | EACL | A Systematic Study of Neural Discourse Models for Implicit Discourse Relation. | Attapol Rutherford, Vera Demberg, Nianwen Xue |
| 2017 | IJCNLP | Using Explicit Discourse Connectives in Translation for Implicit Discourse Relation Classification. | Wei Shi, Frances Yung, Raphael Rubino, Vera Demberg |
| 2017 | INLG | G-TUNA: a corpus of referring expressions in German, including duration information. | David M. Howcroft, Jorrig Vogels, Vera Demberg |
| 2017 | Interspeech | The Extended SPaRKy Restaurant Corpus: Designing a Corpus with Variable Information Density. | David M. Howcroft, Dietrich Klakow, Vera Demberg |
| 2016 | ACL | Roleo: Visualising Thematic Fit Spaces on the Web. | Asad B. Sayeed, Xudong Hong, Vera Demberg |
| 2016 | CogSci | But vs. Although under the microscope. | Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Vera Demberg |
| 2016 | COLING | From OpenCCG to AI Planning: Detecting Infeasible Edges in Sentence Generation. | Maximilian Schwenger, lvaro Torralba, Jrg Hoffmann, David M. Howcroft, Vera Demberg |
| 2016 | EMNLP | Event participant modelling with neural networks. | Ottokar Tilk, Vera Demberg, Asad B. Sayeed, Dietrich Klakow, Stefan Thater |
| 2016 | INLG | How can we adapt generation to the user's cognitive load? | Vera Demberg |
| 2016 | LREC | Annotating Discourse Relations in Spoken Language: A Comparison of the PDTB and CCR Frameworks. | Ines Rehbein, Merel C. J. Scholman, Vera Demberg |
| 2016 | NAACL | Improving event prediction by representing script participants. | Simon Ahrendt, Vera Demberg |
| 2016 | NAACL | LingoTurk: managing crowdsourced tasks for psycholinguistics. | Florian Pusse, Asad B. Sayeed, Vera Demberg |
| 2015 | ACL | Vector-space calculation of semantic surprisal for predicting word pronunciation duration. | Asad B. Sayeed, Stefan Fischer, Vera Demberg |
| 2015 | CogSci | Semantically underinformative utterances trigger pragmatic inferences. | Ekaterina Kravtchenko, Vera Demberg |
| 2015 | NAACL | Improving unsupervised vector-space thematic fit evaluation via role-filler prototype clustering. | Clayton Greenberg, Asad B. Sayeed, Vera Demberg |
| 2014 | CogSci | Incremental and predictive discourse processing based on causal and concessive discourse markers: ERP studies on German and English. | Heiner Drenhaus, Vera Demberg, Judith Khne, Francesca Delogu |
| 2014 | EMNLP | Incremental Semantic Role Labeling with Tree Adjoining Grammar. | Ioannis Konstas, Frank Keller, Vera Demberg, Mirella Lapata |
| 2013 | CogSci | Pupillometry: the Index of Cognitive Activity in a dual-task study. | Vera Demberg |
| 2013 | CogSci | Integration Costs on Auxiliaries? - a self-paced reading study using WebExp. | Vera Demberg |
| 2013 | CogSci | The Index of Cognitive Activity as a Measure of Linguistic Processing. | Vera Demberg, Evangelia Kiagia, Asad B. Sayeed |
| 2013 | CogSci | Language and cognitive load in a dual task environment. | Nikolaos Engonopoulos, Asad B. Sayeed, Vera Demberg |
| 2013 | CogSci | The time-course of processing discourse connectives. | Judith Khne, Vera Demberg |
| 2013 | CogSci | Identifying Predictive Collocations. | Silas Weinbach, Vera Demberg |
| 2012 | COLING | Implicitness of Discourse Relations. | Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Vera Demberg |
| 2012 | EMNLP | Syntactic Surprisal Affects Spoken Word Duration in Conversational Contexts. | Vera Demberg, Asad B. Sayeed, Philip Gorinski, Nikolaos Engonopoulos |
| 2012 | LREC | German and English Treebanks and Lexica for Tree-Adjoining Grammars. | Miriam Kaeshammer, Vera Demberg |
| 2010 | ACL | Syntactic and Semantic Factors in Processing Difficulty: An Integrated Measure. | Jeff Mitchell, Mirella Lapata, Vera Demberg, Frank Keller |
| 2008 | Interspeech | Syntactic complexity induces explicit grounding in the Maptask corpus. | Martin I. Tietze, Vera Demberg, Johanna D. Moore |
| 2007 | ACL | A Language-Independent Unsupervised Model for Morphological Segmentation. | Vera Demberg |
| 2007 | ACL | Phonological Constraints and Morphological Preprocessing for Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion. | Vera Demberg, Helmut Schmid, Gregor Mhler |
| 2006 | EACL | Information Presentation in Spoken Dialogue Systems. | Vera Demberg, Johanna D. Moore |