Josef Valvoda

Researcher, Google

Joined

November 2021

Names

Josef Valvoda (Preferred)

Emails

****@cam.ac.uk (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2026 – Present

Researcher

Amazon (amazon.com)

2025 – 2025

Postdoc

University of Copenhagen (diku.dk)

2023 – 2024

PhD student

University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)

2019 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Simone Teufel

2019 – Present

PhD Advisor

Ryan Cotterell

2019 – Present

Expertise

Compositional Semantics

2021 – Present

Interpretability

2020 – Present

Legal NLP

2017 – Present

Publications

Measuring Scarcity–Complexity Collision in Language Model Estimation
Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Anej Svete, Josef Valvoda, Reda Boumasmoud, Brian DuSell, Ryan Cotterell
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Training Neural Networks as Recognizers of Formal Languages
Alexandra Butoi, Ghazal Khalighinejad, Anej Svete, Josef Valvoda, Ryan Cotterell, Brian DuSell
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Causal Study on The Learnability of Formal Languages
Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Josef Valvoda, Anej Svete, Brian DuSell, Ryan Cotterell
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
On the Role of Negative Precedent in Legal Outcome Prediction
Josef Valvoda, Ryan Cotterell, Simone Teufel
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 01 May 2023
- Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 2023
- Readers: Everyone
UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology
Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Omer Goldman, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Witold Kieras, Gábor Bella, Brian Leonard, Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Maria Ryskina, Sabrina J. Mielke, Elena Budianskaya, Charbel El-Khaissi, Tiago Pimentel, Michael Gasser, William Abbott Lane, Mohit Raj, Matt Coler, Jaime Rafael Montoya Samame et al. (75 additional authors not shown)
- 2022 (modified: 20 Feb 2023)
- LREC 2022
- Readers: Everyone
UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology
Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Omer Goldman, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Witold Kieras, Gábor Bella, Brian Leonard, Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Maria Ryskina, Sabrina J. Mielke, Elena Budianskaya, Charbel El-Khaissi, Tiago Pimentel, Michael Gasser, William Lane, Mohit Raj, Matt Coler, Jaime Rafael Montoya Samame et al. (75 additional authors not shown)
- 2022 (modified: 20 Feb 2023)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
An Ordinal Latent Variable Model of Conflict Intensity
Niklas Stoehr, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Josef Valvoda, Robert West, Ryan Cotterell, Aaron Schein
- 2022 (modified: 17 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
On the Machine Learning of Ethical Judgments from Natural Language
Zeerak Talat, Hagen Blix, Josef Valvoda, Maya Indira Ganesh, Ryan Cotterell, Adina Williams
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 01 May 2023
- NAACL-HLT 2022
- Readers: Everyone
The Architectural Bottleneck Principle
Tiago Pimentel, Josef Valvoda, Niklas Stoehr, Ryan Cotterell
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 01 May 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
On the Role of Negative Precedent in Legal Outcome Prediction
Josef Valvoda, Ryan Cotterell, Simone Teufel
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 01 May 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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