cv
Basics
| Name | Julius Steuer |
| Label | Postdoc |
| julius.steuer@protonmail.com |
Work
-
2025.10 - 2027.09 Heidelberg
Postdoc
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
I'm a postdoc at the NLP group, working with Michael Strube.
- Multilingual Coreference Resolution
- Information Status & Surprisal
Education
-
2022.10 - 2025.09 Saarbrücken
PhD
Saarland University
Computational Linguistics
- Thesis: Developmental, Typological, and Diachronic Applications of Cognitively Plausible Language Models
Publications
-
2026 They saw it, onu, 它, coming: An information theoretic study of cross-linguistic variation in personal pronouns
Linguistics
We explored properties of personal pronouns with surprisal in miniciep+, a multilingual parallel corpus created by Annemarie Verkerk's group.
-
2024.11 WinoPron: Revisiting English Winogender Schemas for Consistency, Coverage, and Grammatical Case
In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference,
-
2024.05 Modeling Diachronic Change in English Scientific Writing over 300+ Years with Transformer-based Language Model Surprisal
Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) @ LREC-COLING 2024
-
2023.12
Large GPT-like Models are Bad Babies: A Closer Look at the Relationship between Linguistic Competence and Psycholinguistic Measures Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP
-
2023.05 Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP
Skills
| Linguistics | |
| Historical Linguistics | |
| Typology | |
| Phonology | |
| Psycholinguistics | |
| Surprisal Theory |
| Natural Language Processing | |
| (Multilingual) Language Modelling |
Languages
| German | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
| French | |
| Advanced |
| Spanish | |
| Advanced |
| Latin | |
| Advanced |
Interests
| Literature | |||||
| Romantics | |||||
| (Very) long novels | |||||
| Fantasy | |||||
| Whatever comes in a two-column format | |||||
| Video Games | |||||||
| Pokémon | |||||||
| Crusader Kings | |||||||
| Elden Ring | |||||||
| Dark Souls | |||||||
| Elder Scrolls | |||||||
| Factorio | |||||||