I am a computational linguist currently looking into how metaphors behave across different languages. I combine insights from cognitive science with NLP to understand how people use figurative language in different cultures, bridging theoretical understanding with practical applications in language technology.

Pursuing a PhD within the MUDCAT and MeTRapher projects at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart. The PhD is supervised by Sabine Schulte im Walde (IMS), Alexander Fraser (TUM), and Diego Frassinelli (LMU).

Publications

2026

Literally Concrete or Figuratively Abstract? Multilingual Concreteness Norms for Verb-Object Expressions [In press] Urban Knupleš, Diego Frassinelli, Alexander Fraser, Sabine Schulte im Walde Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)

2024

Gender Identity in Pretrained Language Models: An Inclusive Approach to Data Creation and Probing [http] Urban Knupleš, Agnieszka Faleńska, Filip Miletić Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

2023

Investigating the Nature of Disagreements on Mid-Scale Ratings: A Case Study on the Abstractness-Concreteness Continuum [arXiv] [http] Urban Knupleš, Diego Frassinelli, Sabine Schulte im Walde Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)

Vita

Present
2024
PhD in Computational Linguistics at IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
2024
2021
MSc in Computational Linguistics at IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
2021
2017
BSc in Computer Science at FERI, University of Maribor, Slovenia.