Justus-Jonas Erker
📍 S2|02 D017
UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
Hochschulstraße 10
64289 Darmstadt
Germany
Hey there 👋, I am a PhD Candidate in Natural Language Processing and fortunate to be supervised by Dr. Nils Reimers and Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych.
I am deeply fascinated by the ability to encode sequential information into Sentence-Transformers representations, enabling emergent properties and behaviors using just cosine similarity. The elegance of representing intricate sequential structures through such a simple yet powerful similarity measure is still stealing my sleep. Apart from my passion on representation learning and retrieval my research interests evolve around:
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Distributed Representation Learning
- Dialog Modeling
- Efficient NLP
Hobbies:
In my free time I like to spend time outside in nature, either hiking (with my dogs) or mountain biking. You most probably will see me walking around with headphones, not because I am not willing to talk to you but because I am very passionate music listener. (I also play some music, preferred instruments: piano, guitar and drums)
news
Aug 10, 2023 | My paper Triple-Encoders got accepted at ACL 2024 Main!🥳 If you want to learn more about weightless contextualization (using nothing else than embeddings) feel free to check out our python library on distributed sentence transformers. |
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Aug 10, 2023 | I will start a Ph.D. in representation learning at the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt supervised by Dr. Nils Reimers and Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych. in October 2023 🥳 |
May 2, 2013 | My paper Imagination Is All You Need! got accepted in the 2023 Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). If you are also joining ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada from the 9th to the 14th of July, hit me up. I would be keen to have a chat there! |