Prof. Elena Marchetti

Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics — ETH Zurich

My research sits at the intersection of formal semantics and large language models. I'm interested in what happens when we try to make statistical systems respect logical constraints — and what breaks when we don't. Before ETH, I was at the University of Edinburgh (2016–2022) and did a postdoc at INRIA Paris. I teach two courses per semester and supervise 4–6 PhD students.

Teaching

CS-401 — Natural Language Understanding (Fall), CS-612 — Formal Methods for NLP (Spring), CS-701 — PhD Seminar: Language and Logic

Selected Publications

'Compositional Generalization in Transformer Architectures' — ACL 2025, 'Logical Consistency in Few-Shot Prompting' — EMNLP 2024, 'Grounding Formal Semantics in Neural Representations' — TACL 2023

Office Hours

Thursdays 14:00–16:00, CAB G 52.2 (or by appointment)

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