--- title: "Carina Kauf — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Carina Kauf: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carina-kauf/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carina-kauf/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Carina Kauf # Carina Kauf Carina Kauf has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Anna A. Ivanova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-a-ivanova/), [Alessandro Lenci](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-lenci/), [Emmanuele Chersoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emmanuele-chersoni/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5024327650) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2718-1978) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5024327650) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024327650) · [797 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024327650&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carina-kauf/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 54 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carina-kauf/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8297](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/83/#star-8297) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Carina+Kauf) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Carina+Kauf) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Carina+Kauf) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Carina+Kauf) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2019–2025 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Göttingen** Göttingen · Germany 2018–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-gottingen/) · [🔬**McGovern Institute for Brain Research** Cambridge · United States 2020–2024 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mcgovern-institute-for-brain-research/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carina-kauf/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carina-kauf/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Better Way to Do Masked Language Model Scoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kauf-2023-better-way-do-masked-language/)** *(2023 · 53 citations)* Masked language models such as BERT have no natural way to assign a probability to a whole sentence. Researchers therefore commonly use the pseudo-log-likelihood (PLL) of Salazar et al. (2020), which masks each token in turn and adds up the log probabilities. Kauf and Ivanova show that this standard variant overrates… 2. **[Log Probabilities Are a Reliable Estimate of Semantic Plausibility in Base and Instruction-Tuned Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kauf-2024-log-probabilities-reliable-estimate-semantic/)** *(2024 · 29 citations)* The paper asks whether explicit prompting or log probabilities (LogProbs) give a better measure of how much language models know about semantic plausibility, which serves as a proxy for world knowledge. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anna A. Ivanova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-a-ivanova/) ×2 - [Alessandro Lenci](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-lenci/) - [Emmanuele Chersoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emmanuele-chersoni/) - [Evelina Fedorenko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evelina-fedorenko/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 54 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carina-kauf/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026