--- title: "Carolin Holtermann — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Carolin Holtermann, Universität Hamburg: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolin-holtermann/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolin-holtermann/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Carolin Holtermann # Carolin Holtermann Carolin Holtermann has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Anne Lauscher](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anne-lauscher/), [Florian Schneider](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/florian-schneider/), [Chris Biemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5030047993) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0449-1348) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5030047993) · [33 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030047993) · [33 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030047993&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolin-holtermann/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 23 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolin-holtermann/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/91/#star-9004) 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=Carolin+Holtermann) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Carolin+Holtermann) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Carolin+Holtermann) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Carolin+Holtermann) ## Affiliations [🎓**Universität Hamburg** Hamburg · Germany 2022–2026 · 26 papersEmployment since 2023 · PhD Candidate, Data Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-hamburg/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolin-holtermann/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolin-holtermann/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Why do LLaVA Vision-Language Models Reply to Images in English?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hinck-2024-why-do-llava-vision-language/)** *(2024 · 12 citations)* LLaVA-style vision-language models often ignore the language of a question and answer in English when an image is attached. 2. **[Centurio: On Drivers of Multilingual Ability of Large Vision-Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/geigle-2025-centurio-drivers-multilingual-ability-large/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Most large vision-language models (LVLMs) are trained largely on English. As a result, they often misread non-English instructions, struggle with foreign-language text inside images, and answer in the wrong language. Geigle et al. ask how to compose training data across languages under a fixed budget. They examine… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Why do LLaVA Vision-Language Models Reply to Images in English?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hinck-2024-why-do-llava-vision-language/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Musashi Hinck, Carolin Holtermann, Matthew Lyle Olson, et al.*2024 · 12 citations* 2. **[Large Language Models Discriminate Against Speakers of German Dialects ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.415/) Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Minh Duc Bui et al.*2025 · 10 citations* 3. **[Centurio: On Drivers of Multilingual Ability of Large Vision-Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/geigle-2025-centurio-drivers-multilingual-ability-large/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Gregor Geigle, Florian Schneider, Carolin Holtermann, et al.*2025 · 9 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anne Lauscher](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anne-lauscher/) ×2 - [Florian Schneider](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/florian-schneider/) ×2 - [Chris Biemann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-biemann/) - [Goran Glavaš](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/goran-glavas/) - [Gregor Geigle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregor-geigle/) - [Matthew Lyle Olson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-lyle-olson/) - [Musashi Hinck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musashi-hinck/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2024/) - Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 23 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [12 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolin-holtermann/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026