A bit late, but I'll be at #HSP2024 this year! Alongside some incredible coauthors (@psydock112 Suhas Arehalli Grusha Prasad @linguistbrian Tal Linzen), I'll be presenting a poster about which eye tracking measures LM surprisal does and doesn't explain in garden path sentences.

#HSP2024 Looking forward to presenting a talk on negative polarity illusion with Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT at Ann Arbor! I am thrilled to provide some new data patterns and I'd love to learn what you think about the underlying theory! 😀

Finally, I’ll be recruiting for Ph.D. positions in the fall 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 If you’re interested in using the tools of computer science and information theory to study how people learn and process language, feel free to reach out!

🧙🍪🧙‍♀️ I'm hiring a postdoc with Sebastian Schuster to start in Fall 2024! We are looking for someone with experience in EITHER: (1) building systems that use language models as a core component to solve complex tasks, or (2) leading human annotation/behavioral experiments.

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher (2-year contract at UMass linguistics) interested in experimental/computational psycholinguistics. Please email me your CV by 4/19 if you are interested!

Excited to share that I've been awarded the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, which will support my research for the next two years!! 🦫🍁 Now onto finishing this PhD and actually writing up papers lol

For the Bayes-curious: There are still some places open for my one-week long introduction to Bayesian statistics (specifically aimed at (psycho)linguists) using brms/Stan at the Gent summer school in July 2024: mils.ugent.be/courses/module…

Makes me happy to see other punsters in the Colgate CLaP lab 🥲

Can LMs serve as cognitive models of human language processing? Humans make syntactic agreement errors ("the key to the cabinets are rusty"). Suhas Arehalli and I tested if the errors documented in six human studies emerge in LMs. They... sometimes did. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

Soo this came up in my Prime video recommendations (keep trying Prime..) but I noticed something for the first time. Why the two different spellings for “kabhi” and “kabhie”??

Sad about this missed pun opportunity at hotel breakfast..

This is happening soon! (The session starts right after coffee break)

So excited to be back in Boston for #BUCLD! Come listen to Forrest Davis and I discuss how LLMs fail to capture human behavior with respect to word learning on Friday!