Portrait of Urban Knupleš

Urban Knupleš

/ˈuːrbaˈn knuˈplɛʃ/ (he/him)

PhD student @ University of Stuttgart

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

  1. 2026

    Literally Concrete or Figuratively Abstract? Multilingual Concreteness Norms for Verb-Object Expressions

    Urban Knupleš, Diego Frassinelli, Alexander Fraser, Sabine Schulte im Walde

    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)

  2. 2024

    Gender Identity in Pretrained Language Models: An Inclusive Approach to Data Creation and Probing

    Urban Knupleš, Agnieszka Faleńska, Filip Miletić

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

  3. 2023

    Investigating the Nature of Disagreements on Mid-Scale Ratings: A Case Study on the Abstractness-Concreteness Continuum

    Urban Knupleš, Diego Frassinelli, Sabine Schulte im Walde

    Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)

Vita

  1. Present2024

    PhD in Computational Linguistics at IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

  2. 20242021

    MSc in Computational Linguistics at IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

  3. 20212017

    BSc in Computer Science at FERI, University of Maribor, Slovenia.