Elisa Kreiss
Assistant Professor
Combines NLP, psycholinguistics and HCI to study how context shapes language, with applications to generating image descriptions for blind and low-vision users.
Elisa Kreiss's lab at UCLA works on multilingual, translation & linguistics, multimodal & grounded language and signal processing & information theory. 8 papers since 2023, 5 at top venues, mostly EMNLP and ICLR. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 2/ year
- at T1 venues
- 63%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 2
- 5 papers2024 · T1 3
- 1 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: EMNLP, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics0 papers
- Multimodal & grounded language0 papers
- Signal processing & information theory0 papers
- psycholinguistics0 papers
- hci0 papers
Paper list
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20252 papers
20245 papers
- EMNLP (T1)CommVQA: Situating Visual Question Answering in Communicative Contexts (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)ContextRef: Evaluating Referenceless Metrics For Image Description Generation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science SocietyEvaluating human and machine understanding of data visualizations (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP WorkshopReference-Based Metrics Are Biased Against Blind and Low-Vision Users' Image Description Preferences (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)When Interpretability Enhances Accessibility: Training CLIP to Prefer Descriptions Over Captions (opens in a new tab)
20231 paper
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science SocietyA semantics for causing, enabling, and preventing verbs using structural causal models (opens in a new tab)
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