Katrin Erk

Katrin Erk is a Professor in both the Linguistics Department and Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is part of the UT Austin NLP and computational linguistics research groups. Her work focuses on computational semantics, particularly exploring word embeddings and contextualized word embeddings to study polysemous words and their meanings in context. She also investigates narrative schemas and their integration with sentence-level meaning representations, often employing logic-based frameworks.

Research interests include understanding the nuanced and graded nature of word meanings, how these interact with sentence structures, and the theoretical implications of using distributional models in semantics. She has contributed to advancing methods that bridge formal semantic theories with data-driven approaches derived from large text corpora.

Office hours for Fall 2024 are listed, and her contact includes an address at Patton Hall (RLP) and an email. No specific grants or awards are mentioned in the provided text.