--- title: "Rochelle Choenni — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Rochelle Choenni, University of Amsterdam: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2026), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Rochelle Choenni # Rochelle Choenni Rochelle Choenni has 4 papers in our library, in 2022–2026, 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/), [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/); often with [Ekaterina Shutova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekaterina-shutova/), [Dan Garrette](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-garrette/), [Ivan Titov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-titov/). 4 papers in our library · 2022–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109855717) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109855717) · [66 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109855717) · [267 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109855717&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 64 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6922](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/70/#star-6922) 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=Rochelle+Choenni) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rochelle+Choenni) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rochelle+Choenni) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rochelle+Choenni) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2018–2026 · 39 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🏛️**Ministry of Security and Justice** The Hague · Netherlands 2010–2018 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04nzhmg91) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 7 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [Dependency parsing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Cognitive linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/cognitive-linguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Metaphor Understanding Challenge Dataset for LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tong-2024-metaphor-understanding-challenge-dataset-llms/)** *(2024 · 47 citations)* Metaphor is common in everyday language, yet it is unclear whether LLMs actually interpret it or just rely on surface word similarity. 2. **[Investigating Language Relationships in Multilingual Sentence Encoders Through the Lens of Linguistic Typology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choenni-2022-investigating-language-relationships-multilingual-sentence/)** *(2022 · 24 citations)* Multilingual sentence encoders support cross-lingual transfer, but it is unclear which properties of individual languages they capture and how they represent typological similarity and difference between languages. 3. **[Cross-Lingual Transfer with Language-Specific Subnetworks for Low-Resource Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choenni-2023-cross-lingual-transfer-language-specific/)** *(2023 · 20 citations)* Multilingual encoders like mBERT use one set of parameters for all languages. This enables transfer, but updates from dissimilar languages can conflict, and low-resource languages suffer most. The authors manage parameter sharing during fine-tuning with language-specific subnetworks. For each training language, they… 4. **[Finding Culture-Sensitive Neurons in Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-finding-culture-sensitive-neurons-vision/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Vision-language models (VLMs) often answer worse on culturally specific images and questions, but it is unclear where culture-related processing happens inside them. ## 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. **[Metaphor Understanding Challenge Dataset for LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tong-2024-metaphor-understanding-challenge-dataset-llms/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiaoyu Tong, Rochelle Choenni, Martha Lewis, et al.*2024 · 47 citations* 2. **[Investigating Language Relationships in Multilingual Sentence Encoders Through the Lens of Linguistic Typology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choenni-2022-investigating-language-relationships-multilingual-sentence/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Rochelle Choenni, Ekaterina Shutova*2022 · 24 citations* 3. **[Cross-Lingual Transfer with Language-Specific Subnetworks for Low-Resource Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/choenni-2023-cross-lingual-transfer-language-specific/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Rochelle Choenni, Dan Garrette, Ekaterina Shutova*2023 · 20 citations* 4. **[On the Evaluation Practices in Multilingual NLP: Can Machine Translation Offer an Alternative to Human Translations? ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14267) arXiv:2406.14267 · no summary yet**Rochelle Choenni et al.*2024 · 5 citations* 5. **[Finding Culture-Sensitive Neurons in Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-finding-culture-sensitive-neurons-vision/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Xiutian Zhao, Rochelle Choenni, Rohit Saxena, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 6. **[An Empirical Analysis of Machine Translation for Expanding Multilingual Benchmarks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.1/) Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Machine Translation · no summary yet**Sara Rajaee et al.*2025 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ekaterina Shutova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekaterina-shutova/) ×3 - [Dan Garrette](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-garrette/) - [Ivan Titov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-titov/) - [Martha Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-lewis/) - [Rohit Saxena](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rohit-saxena/) - [Xiaoyu Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoyu-tong/) - [Xiutian Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiutian-zhao/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) ×2: [Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2023/), [Computational Linguistics 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2022/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Machine Translation ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 64 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026