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Simon Dobnik
Professor
Linguistics and Theory of Science unitAbout Simon Dobnik
I am Professor of Computational Linguistics at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. I am a member of the Centre for Language Technology (CLT) and the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), both at University of Gothenburg.
My research interests include computational models of language and perception, human-robot interaction, situated spoken dialogue systems, and computational representations of meaning (semantics).
Current projects:
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Towards shared standards for pseudonymization of research
data
Elena Volodina, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Maria Irena Szawerna, Lisa Södergård, Xuan-Son Vu
Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2025), Stockholm, 12-13 November 2025 - 2025 -
Communication at an
Angle
Mattias Appelgren, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue – Poster Abstracts - 2025 -
The Devil’s in the Details: the Detailedness of Classes Influences Personal Information Detection and
Labeling
Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025), March 3–4, 2025 Tallinn, Estonia) / Richard Johansson and Sara Stymne (eds.) - 2025 -
Name Biases in Automated Essay
Assessment
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Maria Irena Szawerna, Elena Volodina
The 28th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS 28),19-23 August, 2024, Helsinki, Finland - 2024 -
Pseudonymization Categories across Domain
Boundaries
Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Xuan-Son Vu, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), LREC-COLING, 2024 20-25 May, 2024, Torino, Italia - 2024 -
Jingle BERT, Jingle BERT, Frozen All the Way: Freezing Layers to Identify CEFR Levels of Second Language Learners Using
BERT
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, David Alfter, Simon Dobnik, Maria Irena Szawerna, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2024) - 2024 -
I hea- umm think that's what they say: A Dataset of Inferences from Natural Language
Dialogues
Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Robin Cooper, Simon Dobnik, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Christine Howes, Staffan Larsson, Vladislav Maraev, Gregory Mills, Gijs Wijnholds
Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers, 11-12 September, 2024, Trento, Italy / Raffaella Bernardi, Ellen Breitholtz, Giuseppe Riccardi (Editors) - 2024 -
Swedish Learner Essays Revisited: Further Insights into Detecting Personal
Information
Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Elena Volodina
The Tenth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), 27-29 November, 2024, Linköping, Sweden - 2024 -
Detecting Personal Identifiable Information in Swedish Learner
Essays
Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024), March 21, 2024, St. Julian’s, Malta - 2024 -
Did the Names I Used within My Essay Affect My Score? Diagnosing Name Biases in Automated Essay
Scoring
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Simon Dobnik, Maria Irena Szawerna, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024), March 21, 2024, Malta - 2024 -
Harnessing GPT to Study Second Language Learner Essays: Can We Use Perplexity to Determine Linguistic
Competence?
Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Simon Dobnik, Elena Volodina
Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024), June 20, 2024, Mexico City, Mexico - 2024 -
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024), March 21, 2024,
Malta
Elena Volodina, David Alfter, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Maria Irena Szawerna, Xuan-Son Vu
2024 -
The VDG Challenge: Response Generation and Evaluation in Collaborative Visual
Dialogue
Nikolai Ilinykh, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Natural Language Generation: Generation Challenges, September 11-15, 2023, Prague - 2023 -
Are language-and-vision transformers sensitive to discourse? A case study of
ViLBERT
Ekaterina Voloshina, Nikolai Ilinykh, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation at the 16th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG-2023), September 12, 2023, Prague, Czech Republic - 2023 -
Referring as a collaborative process: learning to ground language through language
games
Dominik Künkele, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of MariLogue - Semdial 2023: The 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, August, 16–17, 2023, Maribor, Slovenia / The Internet - 2023 -
Proceedings of the 2023 CLASP Conference on Learning with Small Data (LSD), Gothenburg and online
11–12 September
2023
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Context matters: evaluation of target and context features on variation of object
naming
Nikolai Ilinykh, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of Linguistic Insights from and for Multimodal Language Processing (LIMO 2023) at KONVENS 2023, September 22, 2023, Ingolstadt, Germany - 2023 -
On the role of resources in the age of large language
models
Simon Dobnik, John D. Kelleher
Proceedings of the 2023 CLASP Conference on Learning with Small Data (LSD), Gothenburg and online 11–12 September 2023 / Editors: Ellen Breitholtz, Shalom Lappin, Sharid Loáiciga, Nikolai Ilinykh, and Simon Dobnik - 2023 -
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023), May 22, 2023, Tórshavn, Faroe
Islands
Nikolai Ilinykh, Felix Morger, Dana Dannélls, Simon Dobnik, Beáta Megyesi, Joakim Nivre
2023 -
Grandma Karl is 27 years old – research agenda for pseudonymization of research
data
Elena Volodina, Simon Dobnik, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Xuan-Son Vu
2023 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService), Athens, Greece, 2023 - 2023 -
On the role of resources in the age of large language
models
Simon Dobnik
Workshop on Resources and representations for under-resourced languages and domains at NoDaLiDa-2023, May 22-24 2023, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands - 2023 -
Quantum NLP, computational representations of meaning and challenges for the
future
Simon Dobnik
Quantum Natural Language Processing 2023, Compositional Models of Artificial Intelligence, and beyond, 16-17 May 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2023 -
Neat and Scruffy: On Computational Generation and Interpretation of Spatial
Descriptions
Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning (STRL 2022) co-located with the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022, ECAI 2022), Vienna, Austria, July 24, 2022. - 2022 -
Examining the Effects of Language-and-Vision Data Augmentation for Generation of Descriptions of Human
Faces
Nikolai Ilinykh, Rafal Černiavski, Eva Elžbieta Sventickaitė, Viktorija Buzaitė, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on People in Vision, Language, and the Mind (P-VLAM 2022) at LREC 2022, 20 June 2022, Marseille, France / Patrizia Paggio, Albert Gatt, Marc Tanti (Editors) - 2022 -
Pre-trained Models or Feature Engineering: The Case of Dialectal
Arabic
Chatrine Qwaider, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks on Qur'an QA and Fine-Grained Hate Speech Detection, 20-25 June 2022, Marseille, France - 2022 -
What to refer to and when? Reference and re-reference in two language-and-vision
tasks
Simon Dobnik, Nikolai Ilinykh, Aram Karimi
Proceedings of DubDial - Semdial 2022: The 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, August, 22-24, 2022, Dublin - 2022 -
Anaphoric Phenomena in Situated dialog: A First Round of
Annotations
Sharid Loáiciga, Simon Dobnik, David Schlangen
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, October 16–17, 2022 Gyeongju, Republic of Korea - 2022 -
Attention as Grounding: Exploring Textual and Cross-Modal Attention on Entities and Relations in Language-and-Vision
Transformer
Nikolai Ilinykh, Simon Dobnik
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, May 22-27, 2022, Dublin, Ireland / Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio (Editors) - 2022 -
Do Decoding Algorithms Capture Discourse Structure in Multi-Modal Tasks? A Case Study of Image Paragraph
Generation
Nikolai Ilinykh, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), December 7, 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 2022 -
Distributional semantics for situated spatial language? Functional, geometric and perceptual
perspectives
John D. Kelleher, Simon Dobnik
Probabilistic approaches to linguistic theory / edited by Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Rasmus Blanck, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Shalom Lappin, Aleksandre Maskharashvili. - 2022 -
In Search of Meaning and Its Representations for Computational
Linguistics
Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa
Proceedings of the 2022 CLASP Conference on (Dis)embodiment, Gothenburg and online 15–16 September 2022 / Simon Dobnik, Julian Grove and Asad Sayeed (eds.) - 2022 -
Towards a computational model of reference and re-reference in visual
scenes
Simon Dobnik, Nikolai Ilinykh, Aram Karimi
Proceedings of the 9th Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), 23–25 November, Stockholm - 2022 -
Chat-o-matic: an online chat tool for collecting conversations of situated
dialogue
Simon Dobnik, Aram Karimi
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, August, 22-24, 2022, Dublin. - Poster Abstracts - 2022 -
Hallucinate or ground: how general or specific are object descriptions generated by a vision-and-language
transformer?
Simon Dobnik
9th Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Stockholm, 23–25 november 2022 - 2022 -
Computational Generation and Interpretation of Spatial
Descriptions
Simon Dobnik
Dagstuhl Seminar 21492. Representing and Solving Spatial Problems, December 5–10, 2021 - 2022 -
Look And Answer The Question: On The Role Of Vision In Embodied Question
Answering
Nikolai Ilinykh, Yasmeen Emampoor, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, July 17-22, 2022, Waterville, Maine, USA and virtual meeting - 2022 -
Proceedings of the 2022 CLASP Conference on
(Dis)embodiment
Simon Dobnik, Julian Grove, Asad Sayeed
2022 -
Beyond strings of characters: Resources meet NLP –
Again
Dana Dannélls, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Natalia Sathler Sigiliano, Simon Dobnik
Live and learn: Festschrift in honor of Lars Borin / Editors: Elena Volodina, Dana Dannélls, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Markus Forsberg, Shafqat Virk - 2022 -
Fine-grained Entailment: Resources for Greek NLI and Precise
Entailment
Erini Amanaki, Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Robin Cooper, Simon Dobnik, Aram Karimi, Adam Ek, Eirini Chrysovalantou Giannikouri, Vasiliki Katsouli, Ilias Kolokousis, Eirini Chrysovalantou Mamatzaki, Dimitrios Papadakis, Olga Petrova, Erofili Psaltaki, Charikleia Soupiona, Effrosyni Skoulataki, Christina Stefanidou
Proceedings of the Workshop on Dataset Creation for Lower-Resourced Languages within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference - 2022 -
Reference and coreference in situated
dialogue
Sharid Loáiciga, Simon Dobnik, David Schlangen
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR-2021) at NAACL-HLT 2021, June 11, 2021, Online - 2021 -
Annotating anaphoric phenomena in situated
dialogue
Sharid Loáiciga, Simon Dobnik, David Schlangen
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representations (MMSR), June 16, 2021 / Lucia Donatelli, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Kenneth Lai and James Pustejovsky (editors) - 2021 -
How Vision Affects Language: Comparing Masked Self-Attention in Uni-Modal and Multi-Modal
Transformer
Nikolai Ilinykh, Simon Dobnik
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representations (MMSR) at IWCS-2021, June 2021, Groningen, Netherlands (Online) / Lucia Donatelli, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Kenneth Lai and James Pustejovsky (editors) - 2021 -
Selected contributions from the Eighth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2020), 25-27 November
2020
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Referring to the recently seen: reference and perceptual memory in situated
dialogue
John D. Kelleher, Simon Dobnik
Online Proceedings of The Visually Grounded Interaction and Language (ViGIL) workshop at NAACL-HLT 2021, June 10, 2021 - 2021 -
Very necessary: the meaning of non-gradable modal adjectives in discourse
contexts
Maryam Rajestari, Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Aram Karimi
Selected contributions from the Eighth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2020), 25-27 November 2020 / Peter Ljunglöf, Simon Dobnik and Richard Johansson (editors). - 2021 -
What Does a Language-And-Vision Transformer See: The Impact of Semantic Information on Visual
Representations
Nikolai Ilinykh, Simon Dobnik
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Identifying, Analyzing, and Overcoming Challenges in Vision and Language Research - 2021 -
The red cup on the left: Reference, coreference and attention in visual
dialogue
Simon Dobnik, Vera Silfversparre
Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, September 20–22, 2021, Potsdam / The Internet / edited by Ellen Breitholtz, Kallirroi Georgila and David Schlangen - 2021 -
Proceedings of the Reasoning and Interaction Conference (ReInAct 2021), Gothenburg and online,
4–6 October
2021
Christine Howes, Simon Dobnik, Ellen Breitholtz, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
2021 -
Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), May 31-June 2,
2021.
Simon Dobnik, Lilja Øvrelid
2021 -
We went to look for meaning and all we got were these lousy representations: aspects of meaning representation for computational
semantics
Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper, Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Nikolai Ilinykh, Vladislav Maraev, Vidya Somashekarappa
2021
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