Pia Sommerauer

Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Joined

July 2019

Names

Pia Sommerauer

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@vu.nl (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (vu.nl)

2022 – Present

PhD student

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (vu.nl)

2017 – 2022

MS student

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (vu.nl)

2015 – 2017

Undergrad student

Universität Vienna (univie.ac.at)

2011 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Piek Vossen

2016 – Present

PhD Advisor

Antske Fokkens

2015 – Present

Expertise

lexical semantics

distributional semantics

Present

model interpretability

lexical semantics

Present

resources

evaluation

Present

Publications

The Negation Bias in Large Language Models: Investigating bias reflected in linguistic markers
Yishan Wang, Pia Sommerauer, Jelke Bloem
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Arn: Analogical reasoning on narratives
Zhivar Sourati, Filip Ilievski, Pia Sommerauer, Yifan Jiang
- TACL
- Readers: Everyone
Methodological Insights in Detecting Subtle Semantic Shifts with Contextualized and Static Language Models
Sanne Hoeken, Özge Alacam, Antske Fokkens, Pia Sommerauer
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
Better Hit the Nail on the Head than Beat around the Bush: Removing Protected Attributes with a Single Projection
Pantea Haghighatkhah, Antske Fokkens, Pia Sommerauer, Bettina Speckmann, Kevin Verbeek
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 15 Jun 2023
- EMNLP 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Story Trees: Representing Documents using Topological Persistence
Pantea Haghighatkhah, Antske Fokkens, Pia Sommerauer, Bettina Speckmann, Kevin Verbeek
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 15 Jun 2023
- LREC 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Better Hit the Nail on the Head than Beat around the Bush: Removing Protected Attributes with a Single Projection
Pantea Haghighatkhah, Antske Fokkens, Pia Sommerauer, Bettina Speckmann, Kevin Verbeek
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 15 Jun 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Towards More Informative List Verbalisations
Lea Krause, Pia Sommerauer, Piek Vossen
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 16 Jun 2023
- AI4LEGAL/KGSum@ISWC 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Challenging distributional models with a conceptual network of philosophical terms
Yvette Oortwijn, Jelke Bloem, Pia Sommerauer, Francois Meyer, Wei Zhou, Antske Fokkens
- 2021 (modified: 16 Sept 2021)
- NAACL-HLT 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Would you describe a leopard as yellow? Evaluating crowd-annotations with justified and informative disagreement
Pia Sommerauer, Antske Fokkens, Piek Vossen
- Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 15 Jun 2023
- COLING 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Why is penguin more similar to polar bear than to sea gull? Analyzing conceptual knowledge in distributional models
Pia Sommerauer
- Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 16 Jun 2023
- ACL (student) 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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Pia Sommerauer

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