Gemma Boleda, ICREA Research Professor in the
Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain);
co-director of the Computational Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (COLT) research group.
I am a linguist who uses quantitative and computational methods to investigate how language works. I am in particular interested in how people convey meaning through language. I teach in the Master's in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. I suffer from a psychiatric illness, and I didn't dare put this on my webpage until I got a permanent position.
The best way to reach me is via email: firstname.lastname@upf.edu.
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Thinking of applying for an ERC grant, or a post-doctoral fellowship in Spain or Europe? Here you will find successful applications in case that helps.
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We're releasing v. 2.11 of ManyNames, a dataset with multiple names per image for 25K naturalistic images! Play with it here.
sample publications
- Brochhagen, T., G. Boleda, E. Gualdoni, Y. Xu. 2023.
From language development to language evolution: A unified view of human lexical creativity.
Science, 381, 431-436.
[pre-print, supp. mat., code]
- Gualdoni, E., T. Brochhagen, A. Mädebach, G. Boleda. 2023.
What's in a name? A large-scale computational study on how competition between names affects naming variation.
Journal of Memory and Language, 133, 104459.
- Harrison, S., E. Gualdoni, G. Boleda. 2023.
Run Like a Girl! Sport-Related Gender Bias in Language and Vision.
Findings of the ACL, 14093-14103.
- Brochhagen, T., G. Boleda. 2022.
When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle in colexification.
Cognition, 226, 105179.
[video]
- Westera, M., A. Gupta, G. Boleda, S. Padó. 2021.
Distributional models of category concepts based on names of category members.
Cognitive Science, 45:9, e13029.
- Boleda, G. 2020.
Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory. Annual Review of Linguistics, 6: 213-23. [pre-print]
- Silberer, C., S. Zarrieß, M. Westera, G. Boleda. 2020.
Humans Meet Models on Object Naming: A New Dataset and Analysis.
COLING 2020.
- Del Tredici, M., R. Fernández, G. Boleda. 2019.
Short-term meaning shift: a distributional exploration.
NAACL-HLT 2019.
- Westera, M., G. Boleda. 2019.
Don't blame distributional semantics if it can't do entailment.
IWCS 2019.
- Aina, L., Silberer, C., Sorodoc, I., Westera, M., Boleda, G. 2019.
What do entity-centric models learn? Insights from entity linking in multi-party dialogue.
NAACL-HLT 2019.
- McNally, L., G. Boleda. 2017.
Conceptual Versus Referential Affordance in Concept Composition.
In Yoad Winter & James Hampton (eds.) Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology 245-267. Springer.
- G. Boleda, A. Gupta, S. Padó. 2017.
Instances and concepts in distributional space.
EACL 2017.
- Boleda, G. and A. Herbelot. 2016.
Formal Distributional Semantics: Introduction to the Special Issue. Computational Linguistics 42:4, 619-635.
- Arsenijevic, B., B. Gehrke, G. Boleda, L. McNally. 2014. Ethnic adjectives are proper adjectives. 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
- Boleda, G., M. Baroni, N. The Pham, L. McNally. 2013.
Intensionality was only alleged: On adjective-noun composition in distributional semantics. IWCS 2013.
- Boleda, G., S. Schulte im Walde, T. Badia. 2012. Modeling
regular polysemy: A study of the semantic classification of Catalan
adjectives. Computational Linguistics 38:3, 575-616.
- Bruni, E., G. Boleda, M. Baroni, N. K. Tran. 2012.
Distributional semantics in technicolor. ACL 2021.
- Sánchez Marco, C., G. Boleda, L. Padró. 2011.
Extending the tool, or how to annotate historical language varieties.
5th ACL-HLT Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
- Sanromà, R., G. Boleda. 2010.
The Database of Catalan Adjectives.
LREC 2010.
- McNally, L. and G. Boleda. 2004. Relational adjectives as properties of kinds.
Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 5, 179-196.