--- title: "Katharina Kann — author profile and papers" description: "Katharina Kann: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2021), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-kann/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-kann/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Katharina Kann # Katharina Kann Katharina Kann has 4 papers in our library, in 2020–2021, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Clara Vania](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-vania/), [Haokun Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haokun-liu/), [Jason Phang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-phang/). 4 papers in our library · 2020–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082874907) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9342-9927) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116259905) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082874907) · [93 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082874907) · [2,387 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082874907&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-kann/#papers) · [🔗 476 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-kann/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3332](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3332) 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=Katharina+Kann) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Katharina+Kann) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Katharina+Kann) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Katharina+Kann) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 2020–2023 · 42 papersEmployment since 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2016–2021 · 23 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München** Munich · Germany 2016–2019 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2016–2023 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2022–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Dartmouth College** Hanover · United States 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dartmouth-college/) · [🎓**Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México** Mexico City · Mexico 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidad-nacional-autonoma-de-mexico/) · [🎓**Universidad de la República de Uruguay** Montevideo · Uruguay 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidad-de-la-republica-de-uruguay/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 16 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4[Language models & pretraining · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-kann/year/2021/) · [**2020** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-kann/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning with Pretrained Language Models: When and Why Does It Work?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pruksachatkun-2020-intermediate-task-transfer-learning-pretrained/)** *(2020 · 281 citations)* Training a pretrained encoder on a large auxiliary dataset before fine-tuning it on the final task (the STILTs approach) sometimes improves results and sometimes does not, and the reasons are poorly understood. 2. **[How to Adapt Your Pretrained Multilingual Model to 1600 Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ebrahimi-2021-how-adapt-your-pretrained-multilingual/)** *(2021 · 86 citations)* Techniques for extending pretrained multilingual models (PMMs) to languages they never saw in pretraining are usually tested with large Wikipedia or Common Crawl corpora. 3. **[CLiMP: A Benchmark for Chinese Language Model Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiang-2021-climp-benchmark-chinese-language-model/)** *(2021 · 73 citations)* Most suites for testing the grammatical knowledge of language models are built for English. Earlier non-English work mostly checks subject–verb agreement, which Mandarin does not have. The authors address this gap with CLiMP, a collection of Mandarin minimal pairs. Each pair contains a grammatical and an… 4. **[English Intermediate-Task Training Improves Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Too](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phang-2020-english-intermediate-task-training-improves/)** *(2020 · 70 citations)* Multilingual pretrained encoders are typically fine-tuned on English task data and then applied to other languages without target-language labels. ## All works 6 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. **[Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning with Pretrained Language Models: When and Why Does It Work?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pruksachatkun-2020-intermediate-task-transfer-learning-pretrained/)**Yada Pruksachatkun, Jason Phang, Haokun Liu, et al.*[Annual Meeting of the Association for…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) · 281 citations* 2. **[How to Adapt Your Pretrained Multilingual Model to 1600 Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ebrahimi-2021-how-adapt-your-pretrained-multilingual/)**Abteen Ebrahimi, Katharina Kann*[Annual Meeting of the Association for…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) · 86 citations* 3. **[CLiMP: A Benchmark for Chinese Language Model Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiang-2021-climp-benchmark-chinese-language-model/)**Beilei Xiang, Changbing Yang, Yu Li, et al.*[Conference of the European Chapter of the…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) · 73 citations* 4. **[English Intermediate-Task Training Improves Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Too](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phang-2020-english-intermediate-task-training-improves/)**Jason Phang, Iacer Calixto, Phu Mon Htut, et al.*[Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/) · 70 citations* 5. **[PROST: Physical Reasoning about Objects through Space and Time](https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.404/) (original ↗)**Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette et al.*2021 · Findings of the Association for Computational… · 40 citations · no summary yet* 6. **[Grammatical Gender, Neo-Whorfianism, and Word Embeddings: A Data-Driven Approach to Linguistic Relativity](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09729) (original ↗)**Katharina Kann*2019 · arXiv:1910.09729 · 7 citations · no summary yet* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Clara Vania](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-vania/) ×2 - [Haokun Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haokun-liu/) ×2 - [Jason Phang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-phang/) ×2 - [Phu Mon Htut](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phu-mon-htut/) ×2 - [Samuel R. Bowman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-r-bowman/) ×2 - [Yada Pruksachatkun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-pruksachatkun/) ×2 - [Abteen Ebrahimi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abteen-ebrahimi/) - [Alex Warstadt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-warstadt/) - [Changbing Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/changbing-yang/) - [Iacer Calixto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iacer-calixto/) - [Richard Yuanzhe Pang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-yuanzhe-pang/) - [Yu Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-li/) ## 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…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×3: [2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2021/), [2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) - [Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/): [2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/2020/) - [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2021/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 476 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [47 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katharina-kann/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026