Deniz Ekin Yavaş

/de.niz e.kin jɑ.vɑʃ/

I am a PhD candidate in computational linguistics at Heinrich-Heine University (HHU) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer and Dr. Rainer Osswald. At the same time, I work as a doctoral researcher at the DFG-funded project “Coercion and Copredication as Flexible Frame Composition”.

My research focuses on the data-driven investigation of inherent polysemy and coercion. I work with Large Language Models and explore and exploit their ability to deal with meaning flexibility in language.

News:
  • Jan 2024: My paper "Assessing the Significance of Encoded Information in Contextualized Representations to Word Sense Disambiguation" has been accepted to UnImplicit Workshop at EACL 2024.
  • Sep 2023: My research stay for 3 months at Paris Diderot University in France has started.
  • Sep 2023: I represented our paper "Identifying Semantic Argument Types in Predication and Copredication Contexts: A Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Approach" at RANLP 2023.
  • July 2023: I attended ESSAI (European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence) at Ljubljana University in Slovenia.
  • June 2023: We organized TaCoS 2023 at HHU and it was successful!