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”.

I am interested in representation learning and understanding the representations of Large Language Models, with a particular focus on their capacity to handle semantic productivity.

Topics I have worked on:

  • Lexical ambiguity
  • Interpretability of language model representations
  • Learning invariant representations via adversarial forgetting

News:
  • November 2024: I gave a lecture series on language modelling in Turkish to cognitive scientists and cognitive science enthusiasts, organized by CogIST.
  • June 2024: I presented our paper "Improving Word Sense Induction through Adversarial Forgetting of Morphosyntactic Information" at *SEM in Mexico.
  • March 2024: I represented my paper "Assessing the Significance of Encoded Information in Contextualized Representations to Word Sense Disambiguation" at UnImplicit Workshop at EACL 2024 in Malta.
  • Sep-Dec 2023: I visited Paris Diderot University as a guest researcher.