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Congratulations to Dr. Ece Takmaz Ece Takmaz who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Visual and Linguistic Processes in Deep Neural Networks: A Cognitive Perspective”, proudly co-supervised with Sandro Pezzelle 🎊🎓 UvA Amsterdam ILLC

🔜 PhD position in NLP & Cognitive Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam! Topics: modelling word order variation and cognitive constraints, understanding the nature of human language using state-of-the-art language models as tools. Have a look: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…

Deadline for applications the Athens NLP Summer School summer school has been extended to July 1st! Apply here: athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html Great speakers, hands-on labs, poster session for participants to present their own work and social event! Get keen!

Our paper on the DecoderLens is published in NAACL Findings! This simple interpretability tool for encoder-decoder models can provide surprisingly detailed insights into how information evolves across encoder layers. aclanthology.org/2024.findings-…

✨We are affected by the structure of prior context when we process language. The structural priming paradigm has shown that grammatical information plays a vital role in human language processing. In our ACL-f paper we show that LM predictions are driven by similar factors! 🧵

✨ Do current neural speech models show human-like linguistic biases in speech perception? We took inspiration from classic phonetic categorization experiments to explore whether & where sensitivity to phonotactic context emerges in Wav2Vec2 models 🔍 📑 arxiv.org/abs/2407.03005

✨LMs are powerful language approximators, but can their behaviour provide any insights into linguistic theory? We approach this through the phenomenon of adjective order (big red car > red big car) and show that linguistic competence is almost fully driven by data statistics. 🧵

Very excited to attend #CogSci2024 this week! In session T.24 on Friday morning (10.30-12), Bram will present our work on representational alignment between LMs, brains, and syntactic structure 🤖🧠💬 w/ Rochelle Choenni, Micha Heilbron & @wzuidema 📑 escholarship.org/uc/item/1fp7m6… ⬇️

I'll be attending #CogSci2024 in Rotterdam! In the poster session on Friday, Hanna-Sophia Widhoelzl will present our paper "Decoding Emotions in Abstract Art: Cognitive Plausibility of CLIP in Recognizing Color-Emotion Associations". 🎨🖼️👩🏻‍🎨(P2-E-229) escholarship.org/uc/item/9kz9g6…

Looking forward to #CogSci2024! We’ll present 2 posters analysing cross-speaker alignment in face-to-face dialogue, one on lexical alignment led by @DrEsamGhaleb escholarship.org/uc/item/43h970… and one on the relation between lexical and gestural alignment led by Sho Akamine 👇

Working on #bias & #discrimination in #NLP? Passionate about integrating insights from other disciplines? Want to discuss current limitations of #LLM bias mitigation? 👋Join the workshop New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology; 4&5 Nov in #Amsterdam!

Happening now in the (suspiciously empty) gather.town Poster 3 session for ACL: an investigation of Structural Priming effects in LMs with exciting connections to implicit learning accounts of human language processing! aclanthology.org/2024.findings-…

📊🤖 Together with Ray Duch, I’m excited to announce PoSSUM - the first AI pollster of the 2024 election cycle. Read the Press Release, Technical Report, download the anonymised microdata and explore the code: github.com/robertocerinap… . Summary and topline findings follow (1/n)

This is a friendly reminder that there are 7 days left for submitting your extended abstract to this workshop! (Since the workshop is non-archival, previously published work is welcome too. So consider submitting previous/future work to join the discussion in Amsterdam!)

Is it possible to *disentangle* the internal representations of deep learning models? To separate the hidden states of recent spoken language models into one vector specialized for transcription to text, and another that preserves task-relevant acoustic features? #NLProc 🧵(1/9)

The 3rd PoSSUM Poll is now live -- github.com/robertocerinap…. This poll shows a Popular Vote tie, which implies a likely Trump win in the electoral college ...(1/n)

🥳🤖 The 5th and *FINAL* PoSSUM AI poll is now live ! Explore the underlying data (1054 𝕏 users), crosstabs, national and state estimates here github.com/robertocerinap… Digital fieldwork conducted from 17/10 to 26/10. We find Harris ahed nationally by ~2% points, BUT ... (1/n)

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