Publications

To be updated. Please refer to Google Scholar for my most recent publications.

Pia Sommerauer. 2022. Diagnosing Semantic Properties in Distributional Representations of Word Meaning. PhD Thesis. thesis

Yvette Oortwijn , Jelke Bloem, Pia Sommerauer, Francois Meyer, Wei Zhou and Antske Fokkens. 2021, June. Challenging distributional models with a conceptual network of philosophical terms. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 2511-2522). paper

Pia Sommerauer, Antske Fokkens and Piek Vossen. 2020. Would you describe a leopard as yellow? Evaluating crowd-annotations with justified and informative disagreement. In: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. (pp. 4798–4809). paper

Pia Sommerauer. 2020, July. Why is penguin more similar to polar bear than to sea gull? Analyzing conceptual knowledge in distributional models. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (pp. 134-142). paper

Pia Sommerauer. 2020. “Review: Cognitive Linguistics - Foundations of Language”. Linguist list, vol. 27.2006. paper

Pia Sommerauer, Antske Fokkens, and Piek Vossen. 2019. Towards Interpretable, Data-derived Distributional Semantic Representations for Reasoning: A Dataset of Properties and Concepts. In Proceedings of the Tenth Global Wordnet Conference. paper

Pia Sommerauer and Antske Fokkens. 2019. “Conceptual Change and Distributional Semantic Models: an Exploratory Study on Pitfalls and Possibilities”. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change. paper

Pia Sommerauer and Antske Fokkens. 2018. “Firearms and Tigers are Dangerous, Kitchen Knives and Zebras are Not: Testing whether Word Embeddings Can Tell”. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP. paper

Pia Sommerauer. 2018. “Review of Metaphor - A computational perspective”. Linguist list, vol. 29.3264. paper

Pia Sommerauer, Antske Fokkens, and Piek Vossen. 2018. Meaning space at semeval-2018 task 10: Combining explicitly encoded knowledge with information extracted from word embeddings. In Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on semantic evaluation (SemEval 2018). paper