Gerald Penn
Professor
Studies spoken language processing and mathematical linguistics.
Gerald Penn's lab at Toronto works on multilingual, translation & linguistics and speech recognition & spoken language. 22 papers since 2023, 11 at top venues, mostly WWW and EMNLP. 6 PhD students and 3 master's students. 38 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 50%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 3
- alumni listed
- 38
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 4
- 6 papers2024 · T1 2
- 2 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: WWW, EMNLP, AAAI, ACL, CHI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Speech recognition & spoken language6 papers
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics1 paper
- spoken language0 papers
- spoken0 papers
- mathematical0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20264 papers
- AAAI (T1)Beyond Step Pruning: Information Theory Based Step-level Optimization for Self-Refining Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)Calculating Narrative Tension for Ad Placement in Online Narrative Fiction (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)The More You Say, the More You Risk: Ethical Concerns in Large Language Model Reasoning Frameworks (opens in a new tab)
- WWW (T1)Towards Automated Brand-Safety Detection: A Novel Dataset and Comparative Analysis of Language Models (opens in a new tab)
202510 papers
- Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact.An Ecologically Valid Approach to Evaluating Online Gatekeepers (opens in a new tab)
- IWPTAn Efficient Parser for Bounded-Order Product-Free Lambek Categorial Grammar via Term Graph (opens in a new tab)
- Canadian AIAttenuating Catastrophic Forgetting of Token-Level Knowledge in Contrastive Sentence Embeddings with Attentive Pooling (opens in a new tab)
- IWPTCCG Revisited: A Multilingual Empirical Study of the Kuhlmann-Satta Algorithm (opens in a new tab)
- CHI Extended AbstractsConversational Voice Interfaces: Translating Research Into Actionable Design (opens in a new tab)
- COLING (T1)Inside-Outside Algorithm for Probabilistic Product-Free Lambek Categorial Grammar (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Making the Write Connections: Linking Writing Support Tools with Writer Needs (opens in a new tab)
- COLING WorkshopSemantic Masking in a Needle-in-a-haystack Test for Evaluating Large Language Model Long-Text Capabilities (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Sheaf Discovery with Joint Computation Graph Pruning and Flexible Granularity (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Tiny Budgets, Big Gains: Parameter Placement Strategy in Parameter Super-Efficient Fine-Tuning (opens in a new tab)
20246 papers
- LREC/COLINGA Generative Model for Lambek Categorial Sequents (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLConTempo: A Unified Temporally Contrastive Framework for Temporal Relation Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- LREC/COLINGLCGbank: A Corpus of Syntactic Analyses Based on Proof Nets (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPLLM-supertagger: Categorial Grammar Supertagging via Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Interspeech (T1)Quantifying the Role of Textual Predictability in Automatic Speech Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)What does the Knowledge Neuron Thesis Have to do with Knowledge? (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went38 listed
Apply to TorontoFall 2027
Computer Science MSc/PhD
- Round
- Single round (Dec 1)
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- Fee
- CAD 135
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