--- title: "Mitja Nikolaus — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Mitja Nikolaus, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitja-nikolaus/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitja-nikolaus/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mitja Nikolaus # Mitja Nikolaus Mitja Nikolaus has 3 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Alex Warstadt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-warstadt/), [Abdellah Fourtassi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdellah-fourtassi/), [Afra Alishahi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afra-alishahi/). 3 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5088147906) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5609-6628) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5088147906) · [59 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088147906) · [200 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088147906&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitja-nikolaus/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 11 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitja-nikolaus/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8508](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8508) 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=Mitja+Nikolaus) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mitja+Nikolaus) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mitja+Nikolaus) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mitja+Nikolaus) ## Affiliations [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 2021–2026 · 25 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🔬**Centre de recherche cerveau et cognition** Toulouse · France 2024–2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04fhrs205) · [🎓**Université de Toulouse** Toulouse · France 2025–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-toulouse/) · [🎓**Aix-Marseille Université** Marseille · France 2021–2023 · 20 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/aix-marseille-universite/) · [🔬**Laboratoire Parole et Langage** Aix-en-Provence · France 2021–2023 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-parole-et-langage/) · [🔬**Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes** Marseille · France 2021–2023 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-et-systemes/) · [🎓**Université de Toulon** La Garde · France 2021–2023 · 13 papers](https://ror.org/02m9kbe37) · [🎓**University of Tübingen** Tübingen · Germany 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-tubingen/) 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Child-directed speech · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/child-directed-speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitja-nikolaus/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitja-nikolaus/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitja-nikolaus/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Learning English with Peppa Pig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nikolaus-2022-learning-english-peppa-pig/)** *(2022 · 18 citations)* Neural models that learn spoken language by linking it to visual input are usually trained on images or videos paired with spoken descriptions. 2. **[Automatic Annotation of Grammaticality in Child-Caregiver Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nikolaus-2024-automatic-annotation-grammaticality-child-caregiver/)** *(2024 · 7 citations)* The authors developed a tool that automatically assesses the grammaticality of children's utterances in naturalistic conversations between children and adults. 3. **[Towards Developmentally Plausible Rewards: Communicative Success as a Learning Signal for Interactive Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stopler-2025-towards-developmentally-plausible-rewards-communicative/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* Language models learn by predicting the next token, while children also learn from whether their attempts to communicate succeed. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Learning English with Peppa Pig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nikolaus-2022-learning-english-peppa-pig/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Mitja Nikolaus, Afra Alishahi, Grzegorz Chrupała*2022 · 18 citations* 2. **[Automatic Annotation of Grammaticality in Child-Caregiver Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nikolaus-2024-automatic-annotation-grammaticality-child-caregiver/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Mitja Nikolaus, Abhishek Agrawal, Petros Kaklamanis, et al.*2024 · 7 citations* 3. [**Towards Developmentally Plausible Rewards: Communicative Success as a Learning Signal for Interactive Language Models arXiv:2505.05970**Lennart Stopler, Rufat Asadli, Mitja Nikolaus, et al.*2025 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stopler-2025-towards-developmentally-plausible-rewards-communicative/) 4. **[ChiCA: un corpus de conversations face-à-face vs. Zoom entre enfants et parents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.jeptalnrecital-trad.3/) Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès · no summary yet**Dhia Elhak Goumri et al.*2024* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alex Warstadt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-warstadt/) ×2 - [Abdellah Fourtassi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdellah-fourtassi/) - [Afra Alishahi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/afra-alishahi/) - [Grzegorz Chrupała](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/grzegorz-chrupala/) - [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2024/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2022/) - Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 11 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitja-nikolaus/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026