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Frank Keller

Frank Keller has 4 papers in our library, in 2003–2026, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Question answering, Reasoning; often with Alex Lascarides, Mirella Lapata, Gautier Dagan.

4 papers in our library · 2003–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 46 · 242 works · 10,440 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 4 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 263 times in our library · 6 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4037

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 Affiliations

🎓University of EdinburghEdinburgh · United Kingdom1995–2026 · 136 papersEmployment · Professor, School of Informaticscurrent🎓University of CopenhagenCopenhagen · Denmark2016–2019 · 2 papers🎓Saarland UniversitySaarbrücken · Germany2001–2002 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 7The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Computer Science · 4 worksArtificial Intelligence · 4 worksArts and Humanities · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 worksInformation Systems · 1 workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 worksLiterature and Literary Theory · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Language models & pretraining · 1 workQuestion answering · 1 workReasoning · 1 work

💡 Concepts 2Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.Inverted index · 1 workN-gram · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20262 papers20231 paper

2000s

20031 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Using the Web to Obtain Frequencies for Unseen Bigrams (2003 · 425 citations)
    Statistical NLP struggles with data sparseness: many plausible word combinations never occur even in a large corpus, so their counts are zero.
  2. Dynamic Planning with a LLM (2023 · 25 citations)
    Agents built only on LLMs have difficulty with long, multi-step plans in embodied settings where the world is only partly observed.
  3. Contrastive Learning with Narrative Twins for Modeling Story Salience (2026 · 5 citations)
    Narrative understanding depends on telling which events drive a plot forward, yet there has been little systematic work on how to compute this "salience." The authors pose two questions: which story representations suit the task, and which narratology-inspired test best picks out salient sentences.
  4. Think Before you Write: QA-Guided Reasoning for Character Descriptions in Books (2026)
    Writing descriptions of characters from full-length books is difficult. A model must follow how a character's relationships and circumstances change, combine clues spread across more than 100k tokens, and infer details the text only implies. The authors find that reasoning-capable LLMs perform worse on this task when…

All works

10 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Using the Web to Obtain Frequencies for Unseen BigramsComputational LinguisticsFrank Keller, Mirella Lapata2003 · 425 citations
  2. Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies ↗Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yetAmit Dubey, Frank Keller2003 · 158 citations
  3. Weakly Supervised Part-of-speech Tagging Using Eye-tracking Data ↗Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yetMaria Barrett et al.2016 · 118 citations
  4. Training Object Class Detectors with Click Supervision ↗IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yetDim P. Papadopoulos et al.2017 · 116 citations
  5. Lexicalization in Crosslinguistic Probabilistic Parsing: The Case of French ↗Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'05) · no summary yetAbhishek Arun, Frank Keller2005 · 106 citations
  6. Modeling Human Reading with Neural Attention ↗Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetMichael Hahn, Frank Keller2016 · 75 citations
  7. Dynamic Planning with a LLMarXiv:2308.06391Gautier Dagan, Frank Keller, Alex Lascarides2023 · 25 citations
  8. Cross-lingual Transfer of Correlations between Parts of Speech and Gaze Features ↗Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers · no summary yetMaria Barrett, Frank Keller, Anders Søgaard2016 · 23 citations
  9. Contrastive Learning with Narrative Twins for Modeling Story SalienceConference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)Igor Sterner, Alex Lascarides, Frank Keller2026 · 5 citations
  10. Think Before you Write: QA-Guided Reasoning for Character Descriptions in BooksFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsArgyrios Papoudakis, Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller2026

 Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 263 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 28 citing papers with a page here →.

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