--- title: "Yasemin Altun — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yasemin Altun: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2006–2023), h-index 26 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasemin-altun/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasemin-altun/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yasemin Altun # Yasemin Altun Yasemin Altun has 3 papers in our library, in 2006–2023, most of them on [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/), [Information extraction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Chenxi Pang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenxi-pang/), [Fangyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyu-liu/), [Francesco Piccinno](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-piccinno/). 3 papers in our library · 2006–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5085471281) · [**h-index 26**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5085471281) · [59 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085471281) · [6,155 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085471281&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasemin-altun/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 244 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasemin-altun/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2994](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2994) 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=Yasemin+Altun) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yasemin+Altun) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yasemin+Altun) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yasemin+Altun) ## Affiliations [🔬**Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics** Tübingen · Germany 1999–2011 · 21 papers](https://ror.org/026nmvv73) · [🔬**Max Planck Society** Munich · Germany 1999–2011 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-society/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 2000–2012 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2013–2021 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago** Chicago · United States 2005–2006 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/toyota-technological-institute-at-chicago/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🏢**Google** Zurich · Switzerland 2014–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-switzerland/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 5 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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information extraction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Word sense disambiguation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Word sense disambiguation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/word-sense-disambiguation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper DePlot: One-shot visual language reasoning by plot-to-table translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-deplot-one-shot-visual-language/) ### 2010s [**2013** 1 paper Overcoming the Lack of Parallel Data in Sentence Compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/filippova-2013-overcoming-lack-parallel-data-sentence/) ### 2000s [**2006** 1 paper Broad-Coverage Sense Disambiguation and Information Extraction with a Supersense Sequence Tagger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ciaramita-2006-broad-coverage-sense-disambiguation-information/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Broad-Coverage Sense Disambiguation and Information Extraction with a Supersense Sequence Tagger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ciaramita-2006-broad-coverage-sense-disambiguation-information/)** *(2006 · 295 citations)* The paper argues that named entity recognition uses too few categories to be broadly useful, while fine-grained word sense disambiguation over Wordnet synsets has too many classes and too little training data to beat simple baselines. 2. **[Overcoming the Lack of Parallel Data in Sentence Compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/filippova-2013-overcoming-lack-parallel-data-sentence/)** *(2013 · 205 citations)* Supervised deletion-based sentence compression has long been limited by a lack of training data. Existing parallel corpora such as Ziff-Davis and the two Edinburgh sets hold only about a thousand pairs each, which makes rich or lexicalized features impractical. Filippova and Altun propose an automatic way to harvest… 3. **[DePlot: One-shot visual language reasoning by plot-to-table translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-deplot-one-shot-visual-language/)** *(2023 · 121 citations)* Answering questions about charts and plots requires both precise extraction of the underlying values and multi-step numerical reasoning. ## All works 5 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. **[Broad-Coverage Sense Disambiguation and Information Extraction with a Supersense Sequence Tagger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ciaramita-2006-broad-coverage-sense-disambiguation-information/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Massimiliano Ciaramita, Yasemin Altun*2006 · 295 citations* 2. **[Overcoming the Lack of Parallel Data in Sentence Compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/filippova-2013-overcoming-lack-parallel-data-sentence/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Katja Filippova, Yasemin Altun*2013 · 205 citations* 3. **[DePlot: One-shot visual language reasoning by plot-to-table translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-deplot-one-shot-visual-language/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Fangyu Liu, Julian Eisenschlos, Francesco Piccinno, et al.*2023 · 121 citations* 4. **[Translate & Fill: Improving Zero-Shot Multilingual Semantic Parsing with Synthetic Data](https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.279/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Massimo Nicosia, Zhongdi Qu, Yasemin Altun*2021 · 30 citations* 5. **[TANQ: An Open Domain Dataset of Table Answered Questions](https://aclanthology.org/2025.tacl-1.23/) Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · original ↗ · no summary yet**Mubashara Akhtar et al.*2025 · 7 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chenxi Pang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenxi-pang/) - [Fangyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyu-liu/) - [Francesco Piccinno](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-piccinno/) - [Julian Eisenschlos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-eisenschlos/) - [Katja Filippova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katja-filippova/) - [Kenton Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenton-lee/) - [Mandar Joshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mandar-joshi/) - [Massimiliano Ciaramita](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimiliano-ciaramita/) - [Nigel Collier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nigel-collier/) - [Syrine Krichene](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/syrine-krichene/) - [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2013/), [EMNLP 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2006/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 - Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 244 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [32 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasemin-altun/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026