--- title: "Clara Meister — author profile and papers" description: "Clara Meister, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-meister/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-meister/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Clara Meister # Clara Meister Clara Meister has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, most of them on [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/); often with [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/), [Tiago Pimentel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tiago-pimentel/), [Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ethan-gotlieb-wilcox/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029033876) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3775-4426) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029033876) · [82 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029033876) · [1,196 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029033876&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-meister/#papers) · [🔗 433 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-meister/cited-by/) · [8 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3484](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/35/#star-3484) 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=Clara+Meister) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Clara+Meister) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Clara+Meister) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Clara+Meister) ## Affiliations [🎓**École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne** Lausanne · Switzerland 2025–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) · [🎓**ETH Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2020–2025 · 68 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2020–2025 · 24 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2020–2023 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2022–2023 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**Institute for Machine Learning** Zurich · Switzerland 2024 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/04p2fa809) 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. ## Topics [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-meister/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Testing the Predictions of Surprisal Theory in 11 Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wilcox-2023-testing-predictions-surprisal-theory-11/)** *(2023 · 158 citations)* Evidence for surprisal theory, the idea that words harder to predict from prior context take longer to read, comes mostly from English readers. 2. **[Locally Typical Sampling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meister-2023-locally-typical-sampling/)** *(2023 · 152 citations)* Neural language models assign high likelihood to held-out text, yet the text they generate often reads poorly. ## Also in our library 8 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/) ×2 - [Tiago Pimentel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tiago-pimentel/) ×2 - [Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ethan-gotlieb-wilcox/) - [Roger Levy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roger-levy/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 433 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [29 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-meister/cited-by/).