PhD Students

   Zheng Wei Lim (PhD; joined 10/2021; co-supervised with Charles Kemp and Trevor Cohn) works on "A Computational Study on Untranslatable Words and Cross-Cultural Translations"
   Naomi Baes (PhD; joined 06/2023; co-supervised with Nick Haslam) works on "A Framework for Computational Analysis and Evaluation of Concept Creep"
   Temuulen Khishigsuren (PhD; joined 08/2023; co-supervised with Charles Kemp) works on "Computational Approaches to Lexical Semantic Typology"
   Noor de Bruijn (PhD; joined 09/2023; co-supervised with Jen Overbeck) works on "Fair Evaluation in the Workplace: Mitigating Gender Bias in Performance Evaluations with Natural Language Processing"
   Aso Mahmudi (PhD; joined 12/2023; co-supervised with Ed Hovy) works on "Developing Advanced Processing Tools for Under-Resourced Languages Focusing on Morphological Feature"
   Chris Guest (MPhil; joined 07/2024; co-supervised with Jey Han Lau) works on "Developing NLP Technology for Anatolian Languages"
   Raphaël Merx (PhD; joined 08/2024; co-supervised with Hanna Suominen, Trevor Cohn, Nick Thieberger) works on "In-domain User-centered Low-resource Machine Translation"
   Demian Inostroza Améstica (PhD; joined 09/2024; co-supervised with Charles Kemp, Mae Carroll, Mel Mistica) works on "Explaining Cross-lingual Variation in Grammatical Case Systems through Information-Theoretical Approaches"
   Pagnarith Pit (PhD; joined 09/2024; co-supervised with Tanya Linden, Simon D'Alfonso) works on "Advancing Computer Science Education Through Socratic AI"

Masters/Undergrad Students

   Yezihan Zhou (UG; 2023; co-supervised with Daniel Beck) works on "Data-efficient Algorithms for Natural Language Processing"
   Anju Nakahara (UG; 2023) works on "Exploring Traditional Japanese Culture through Dictionaries"

Publications

Merx, R., Suominen, H., Hong, L., Thieberger N., Cohn, T., Vylomova, E. (2025). Tulun: Transparent and Adaptable Low-resource Machine Translation. To Appear at ACL 2025 (System Demonstration).   [Demo]  [Video]  [Code]

Baes, N., Merx, R., Haslam, N., Vylomova, E., & Dubossarsky, H. (2025). A General Framework to Evaluate Methods for Assessing Dimensions of Lexical Semantic Change Using LLM-Generated Synthetic Data. To Appear at ACL 2025 (Findings).

Merx, R., Correia, A. J. G., Suominen, H., & Vylomova, E. (2025). Low-resource Machine Translation: what for? who for? An observational study on a dedicated Tetun language translation service. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025) @ NAACL (Nominated for the Best Paper Award).   [Talk]

Khishigsuren, T., Regier, T., Vylomova, E., & Kemp, C. (2025). A Computational Analysis of Lexical Elaboration Across Languages. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(15)    [OSF]   [Demo]   Discussed on The Conversation, Language Log, Anthropology.Net

Mahmudi, A., Herce, B., Améstica, D. I., Scherbakov, A., Hovy, E., & Vylomova, E. (2025). Can a Neural Model Guide Fieldwork? A Case Study on Morphological Data Collection. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) (pp. 62-72).

Lim, Z. W., Vylomova, E. , Kemp, C., & Cohn, T. (2024). Predicting Human Translation Difficulty with Neural Machine Translation. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 12, 1479-1496.   [Code]   Discussed on Slator

Merx, R., Vylomova, E. , & Kurniawan, K. (2024). Generating Bilingual Example Sentences with Large Language Models as Lexicography Assistants. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (Best Paper Award).

Baes, N., Haslam, N., & Vylomova, E. (2024). A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applications. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 1390-1415).    [Code]

Lim, Z. W., Vylomova, E., Cohn, T., & Kemp, C. (2024). Simpson’s Paradox and the Accuracy-Fluency Tradeoff in Translation. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) (pp. 92-103).    [Code]   Discussed on Slator

Lim, Z. W., Stuart, H., De Deyne, S., Regier, T., Vylomova, E., Cohn, T., & Kemp, C. (2024). A Computational Approach to Identifying Cultural Keywords Across Languages. Cognitive Science, 48(1).   [OSF] [Code]

Xiao Y., Baes, N., Vylomova, E., & Haslam, N. (2023). Have the concepts of ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression’ been normalized or pathologized? A corpus study of historical semantic change. Plos one, 18(6), e0288027.

Lim Z.W., Cohn T., Kemp C., Vylomova, E.. 2023. Predicting Human Translation Difficulty Using Automatic Word Alignment. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada.

Scherbakov A., Vylomova E. 2023. Does Topological Ordering of Morphological Segments Reduce Morphological Modeling Complexity? A Preliminary Study on 13 Languages. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, pp. 120-125

Baes N., Vylomova E., Zyphur M., Haslam N. 2023. The Semantic Inflation of “Trauma” in Psychology. Psychology of Language and Communication, pp. 23--45

Vylomova E., Ponti E.M., Cotterell R. 2022. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP.

List J.-M., Vylomova E., Forkel R., Hill N., Cotterell R. 2022. The SIGTYP 2022 Shared Task on the Prediction of Cognate Reflexes. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, pp. 52--62

Batsuren K., Bella G., Arora A., Martinović V., Gorman K., Žabokrtský Z., Ganbold A., Dohnalová Š., Ševčíková M., Pelegrinová K., Giunchiglia F., Cotterell R., Vylomova E. 2022. The SIGMORPHON 2022 Shared Task on Morpheme Segmentation. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pp. 103--116

Scherbakov A., Vylomova E. 2022. Morphology is not just a naive Bayes–UniMelb Submission to SIGMORPHON 2022 ST on Morphological Inflection. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pp. 240--246

Kodner J., Khalifa S., Batsuren K., Dolatian H., Cotterell R., Akkus F., Anastasopoulos A., Andrushko T., Arora A., Atanalov N., Bella G., Budianskaya E., Ate Y.G., Goldman O., Guriel D., Guriel S., Guriel-Agiashvili S., Kieraś W., Krizhanovsky A., Krizhanovsky N., Marchenko I., Markowska M., Mashkovtseva P., Nepomniashchaya M., Rodionova D., Scheifer K., Sorova A., Yemelina A., Young J., Vylomova E.. 2022. The SIGMORPHON–UniMorph 2022 Shared Task 0: Generalization and Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pp. 176--203

Batsuren K., Goldman O., Khalifa S., Habash N., Kieraś W., Bella G., Leonard B., Nicolai G., Gorman K., Ate Y.G., Ryskina M, Mielke S. J., Budianskaya E., El-Khaissi C., Pimentel T., Gasser M., Lane W., Raj M., Coler M., Montoya Samame J.R., Siticonatzi Camaiteri D., Rojas E.S., López Francis D., Oncevay A., López Bautista J., Silva Villegas G.C., Torroba Hennigen L., Ek A., Guriel D., Dirix P., Bernardy J.-P., Scherbakov A., Bayyr-ool A., Anastasopoulos A., Zariquiey R., Sheifer K., Ganieva S., Cruz H., Karahóǧa R., Markantonatou S., Pavlidis G., Plugaryov M., Klyachko E., Salehi A., Angulo C., Baxi J, Krizhanovsky A., Krizhanovskaya N., Salesky E., Vania C., Ivanova S., White J., Maudslay R., Valvoda J., Zmigrod R., Czarnowska P., Nikkarinen I., Salchak A., Bhatt B., Straughn C., Liu Z., Washington J., Pinter Y., Ataman D., Wolinski M., Suhardijanto T., Yablonskaya A., Stoehr N., Dolatian H., Nuriah Z., Ratan S., Tyers F.M., Ponti E.M., Aiton G., Arora A., Hatcher R.J., Kumar R., Young J., Rodionova D., Yemelina A., Andrushko T., Marchenko I., Mashkovtseva P., Serova A., Prud'hommeaux E., Nepomniashchaya M., Giunchiglia F., Chodroff E., Hulden M., Silfverberg M., McCarthy A.D., Yarowsky D., Cotterell R., Tsarfaty R., Vylomova E.. 2022. UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marseille, France

Wheeler M., Vylomova E., McGrath M., Haslam N. 2021. More Confident, Less Formal: Stylistic Changes in Academic Psychology Writing From 1970 To 2016. Scientometrics, 126.12, 9603--9612

Vylomova E., Haslam N. 2021. Semantic Changes in Harm-related Concepts in English. Computational approaches to semantic change, 6, 93.

Haslam N., Vylomova E., Murphy S.C., Wilson S. 2021. The Neuroscientification of Psychology: The Rising Prevalence of Neuroscientific Concepts in Psychology From 1965 To 2016. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 2021 Jul.

Pimentel T., Ryskina M., Mielke S., Wu S., Chodroff E., Leonard B., Nicolai G., Ate Y., Khalifa S., Habash N., El-Khaissi C. {...}, Vylomova E.. 2021. SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection: Generalization Across Languages. In Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pp. 229-259.

Salesky E., Abdullah B., Mielke S., Klyachko E., Serikov O., Ponti E.M., Kumar R., Cotterell R., Vylomova E. 2021. SIGTYP 2021 Shared Task: Robust Spoken Language Identification. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP, pp. 122-129.

Vylomova E., Salesky E., Mielke S., Lapesa G., Kumar R., Hammarström H., Vulić I., Korhonen A., Reichart R., Ponti E. M., Cotterell R. 2021.Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP.

Scherbakov A., Whittle L., Kumar R., Singh S., Coleman M., Vylomova E. 2021. Anlirika: an LSTM--CNN Flow Twister for Spoken Language Identification. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP, pp. 145--148.

Muradoglu S., Evans N., Vylomova E. 2020. Modelling Verbal Morphology in Nen. In Proceedings of the The 18th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, pp. 43-53.

Shcherbakov A., Muradoglu S., Vylomova E. 2020. Exploring Looping Effects in RNN-based Architectures. In Proceedings of the The 18th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, pp. 115-120.

Vylomova E., Ponti E.M., Grossman E., McCarthy A.D., Berzak Y., Dubossarsky H., Vulić I., Reichart R., Korhonen A., Cotterell R. 2020. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology.

Bjerva J., Salesky E., Mielke S.J., Chaudhary A., Giuseppe C., Ponti E.M., Vylomova E., Cotterell R., Augenstein I. 2020. SIGTYP 2020 Shared Task: Prediction of Typological Features. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology, pp. 1-11.

Vylomova E., White J., Salesky E., Mielke S.J., Wu S., Ponti E.M., Maudslay R.H., Zmigrod R., Valvoda J., Toldova S., Tyers F. et al. 2020. SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task 0: Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection. In Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pp. 1-39.

McCarthy A. D., Kirov C., Grella M., Nidhi A., Xia P., Gorman K.,Vylomova E. et al. 2020. UniMorph 3.0: Universal Morphology. In Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 3922-3931.

Haslam N., Dakin B. C., Fabiano F., McGrath M. J., Rhee J., Vylomova E., Weaving, M. Wheeler, M. A. 2020. Harm Inflation: Making Sense of Concept Creep. European Review of Social Psychology, 31(1), 254-286.

Di Q., Vylomova E., Baldwin T. 2019. Modelling Tibetan Verbal Morphology. In Proceedings of the The 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) (pp.35-40). Sydney, Australia

Shcherbakov A., Vylomova E. 2019. A string-to-graph constructive alignment algorithm for discrete and probabilistic language modeling. In Proceedings of the The 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) (pp. 186-191). Sydney, Australia

Gorman K., McCarthy A., Cotterell R., Vylomova E., Silfverberg M., Markowska M. 2019.Weird Inflects but OK: Making Sense of Morphological Generation Errors. In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) (pp. 140-151). Hong Cong

McCarthy A., Vylomova E., Wu S., Malaviya C., Wolf-Sonkin L., Nicolai G., Kirov C., Silfverberg M., Mielke S., Heinz J., Cotterell R., Hulden M. 2019. The SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task: Morphological Analysis in Context and Cross-Lingual Transfer for Inflection. In Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, ACL, Florence, Italy

Vylomova E., Murphy S., Haslam N. Evaluation of Semantic Change of Harm-Related Concepts in Psychology. 2019. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, ACL, Florence, Italy

Dubossarsky H., McCarthy A., Ponti E., Vulić I., Vylomova E., Berzak Y., Cotterell R., Faruqui M., Korhonen A., Reichart R. 2019. Proceedings of TyP-NLP: The First Workshop on Typology for Polyglot NLP., ACL, Florence, Italy

Vylomova E., Cotterell R., Baldwin T., Cohn T., Eisner J. 2019. Contextualization of Morphological Inflection. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), Minnesota, USA

Cotterell R., Kirov C., Sylak-Glassman J., Walther G., Vylomova E., McCarthy A., Kann K., Mielke S., Nicolai G., Silfverberg M., Yarowsky D., Eisner J., Hulden M. 2018. The CoNLL--SIGMORPHON 2018 Shared Task: Universal Morphological Reinflection., Brussels, Belgium

Kirov C., Cotterell R., Sylak-Glassman J., Walther G., Vylomova E., Xia P., Faruqui M., Mielke S., McCarthy A., Kbler S., Yarowsky D., Eisner J., Hulden M. 2018. UniMorph 2.0: Universal Morphology. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan

Cotterell R., Khayrallah H., Vylomova E., Kirov C., Yarowsky D. 2017. Paradigm Completion for Derivational Morphology. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods of Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Copenhagen, Denmark

Vylomova E., Shcherbakov A., Philippovich Yu., Cherkasova G. 2017. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Evaluation and Modelling of Verbal Associations. Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts - Sixth International Conference (AIST), Moscow, Russia

Cotterell R., Kirov C., Sylak-Glassman J., Walther G., Vylomova E., Xia P., Faruqui M., Kubler S., Yarowsky D., Eisner J., Hulden M. 2017. CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 Shared Task: Universal Morphological Reinflection in 52 Languages. In Proceedings of the CoNLL SIGMORPHON 2017 Shared Task: Universal Morphological Reinflection, CoNLL, Vancouver, Canada

Vylomova E., Cotterell R., Baldwin T., Cohn T. 2017. Context-Aware Prediction of Derivational Word-forms. In Proceedings of European Chapter of the ACL (EACL), Valencia, Spain

Shcherbakov A., Vylomova E., Thieberger N. 2016. Phonotactic Modeling of Extremely Low Resource Languages. In Proceedings of Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA), Melbourne, Australia

Vylomova E., Rimell L., Cohn T., Baldwin T. 2016. Take and Took, Gaggle and Goose, Book and Read: Evaluating the Utility of Vector Differences for Lexical Relation Learning. In Proceedings of ACL'2016, Berlin, Germany

Scherbakov A., Vylomova E., Liu F., Baldwin T. 2016. SemEval 2016, Task 10: From Incremental Meaning to Semantic Unit (phrase by phrase). NAACL'2016, San Diego, USA

Cohn T., Hoang C.V.,Vylomova E., Yao K., Dyer C., Haffari G. 2016. Incorporating Structural Alignment Biases into an Attentional Neural Translation Model. In Proceedings of NAACL'2016, 2016. San Diego, USA

Yao K., Cohn T., Vylomova E., Duh K., Dyer C. 2015. Depth-Gated LSTM. Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology, July - August 2015, Seattle, WA, USA

Peng J., Feldman A., Vylomova E. 2014. Classifying Idiomatic and Literal Expressions Using Topic Models and Intensity of Emotions. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2014, October 25-29, 2014, Doha, Qatar

Vylomova E., Philippovich A., Danshina M., Golubeva I., Philippovich Yu. 2014. Neural Models for Recognition of Basic Units of Semiographic Chants. Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts - Third International Conference, AIST 2014, Yekaterinburg, Russia, April 10-12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, 249-254

Vylomova E. 2013. Structural Characteristics of Russian Associative Network. Proceedings of 10th International Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics, June 26-29 2013

Vylomova E. 2012. Usage of Associative Thesauri for Solving Tasks Related to the Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon. Poster paper, 6th Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval, Yaroslavl, August 6-10 2012

Vylomova E., Philippovich Yu., 2012. Neural Network Model of Verbal Associative Network. Conference Language in culture and society, Peoples Friendship University of Russia, Moscow

Vylomova E. 2012. Analysis of Associative Thesauri and their Application in Problems of Machine Translation. Conference AIST - Analyses of Images, Networks and Texts, Ekaterinburg, March 16-18

Please visit my Google Scholar profile for the full list.

Semirandom Books

Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Donald Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming. Martin Haspelmath, Andrea D. Sims. Understanding Morphology Marvin Harris. Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches. Christopher Bishop. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Stanislaw Lem. The Star Diaries.

Poem (by Yosano Akiko)

その路をずつと行くと
死の海に落ち込むと教へられ、
中途で引返した私、
卑怯な利口者であつた私、
それ以来、私の前には
岐路と
迂路とばかりが続いてゐる。

Acknowledgement

Sulphur Crested Cockatoos

I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation who are the traditional custodians of the land on which I live, work and write.