--- title: "Oskar van der Wal — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Oskar van der Wal: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oskar-van-der-wal/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oskar-van-der-wal/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Oskar van der Wal # Oskar van der Wal Oskar van der Wal has 3 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Willem Zuidema](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/willem-zuidema/), [Arianna Bisazza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arianna-bisazza/), [Gabriele Sarti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriele-sarti/). 3 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5058013252) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4087-3714) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130890607) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5058013252) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5058013252) · [1,220 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5058013252&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oskar-van-der-wal/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,483 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oskar-van-der-wal/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6374](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/64/#star-6374) 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=Oskar+van+der+Wal) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Oskar+van+der+Wal) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Oskar+van+der+Wal) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Oskar+van+der+Wal) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2020–2026 · 15 papersEmployment 2020–2026 · PhD candidate, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🏛️**European Commission** Brussels · Belgium 2025Employment since 2025 · DG CNECT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/european-commission/) 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).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) · [Safety Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oskar-van-der-wal/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oskar-van-der-wal/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Inseq: An Interpretability Toolkit for Sequence Generation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sarti-2023-inseq-interpretability-toolkit-sequence-generation/)** *(2023 · 97 citations)* Most feature attribution research and tooling in NLP targets classification, where each input token gets a single importance score. 2. **[Identifying and Adapting Transformer-Components Responsible for Gender Bias in an English Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chintam-2023-identifying-adapting-transformer-components-responsible/)** *(2023 · 19 citations)* The paper asks whether gender bias in a language model can be traced to specific internal parts and then reduced by retraining only those parts. 3. **[The Birth of Bias: A case study on the evolution of gender bias in an English language model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wal-2022-birth-bias-case-study-evolution/)** *(2022 · 19 citations)* Most work on gender bias in language models detects or removes it after training. This paper asks a prior question: how does a model become biased while it learns? The authors chose a small, fully transparent setup, an LSTM language model trained on an English Wikipedia corpus. They had complete access to the… ## 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. **[BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100) arXiv:2211.05100 · no summary yet**BigScience Workshop et al.*2022 · 1,606 citations* 2. **[Inseq: An Interpretability Toolkit for Sequence Generation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sarti-2023-inseq-interpretability-toolkit-sequence-generation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Gabriele Sarti, Nils Feldhus, Ludwig Sickert, et al.*2023 · 97 citations* 3. **[Identifying and Adapting Transformer-Components Responsible for Gender Bias in an English Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chintam-2023-identifying-adapting-transformer-components-responsible/) [BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/blackboxnlp/)**Abhijith Chintam, Rahel Beloch, Willem Zuidema, et al.*2023 · 19 citations* 4. **[The Birth of Bias: A case study on the evolution of gender bias in an English language model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wal-2022-birth-bias-case-study-evolution/) [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/)**Oskar Van Der Wal, Jaap Jumelet, Katrin Schulz, et al.*2022 · 19 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Willem Zuidema](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/willem-zuidema/) ×2 - [Arianna Bisazza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arianna-bisazza/) - [Gabriele Sarti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gabriele-sarti/) - [Jaap Jumelet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jaap-jumelet/) - [Malvina Nissim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malvina-nissim/) - [Michael Hanna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-hanna/) - [Nils Feldhus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nils-feldhus/) ## 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/) - [BigScience Episode – Workshop on Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bigscience/) - [BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/blackboxnlp/): [BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/blackboxnlp/2023/) - [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/): [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,483 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [314 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oskar-van-der-wal/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026