We'll be at #HSP2022, with three presentation from the lab! Weijie Xu, Jiaxuan Li, & Ming Xiang's poster "Syntactic adaptation to short-term cue-based distributional regularities" is on Thursday afternoon...

Registration for SCiL 2024 UC Irvine is now open! To register, apply for travel awards, and sign up for mentorship opportunities, check out: sites.uci.edu/scil2024/regis… (1/2)

What does it mean for language comprehension to be “good-enough”? With Richard Futrell, we present a computational formalization of model of shallow and deep processing using rate-distortion theory in our new #CogSci2024 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.08223 (1/n)

Want to use computational tools to figure out how human language works? But not ready for a PhD? UC Irvine's new post-bacc program in computational language science bridges the gap. Fall 2024 applications now open! socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/new…

Work with Language Processing Lab @ UChicago on processing appositive (ARCs) vs. restrictive relative clauses (RRCs) is out: doi.org/10.1111/cogs.1… ARCs typically contain side-commentary info; does a distractor in an ARC lead to an absence of agreement attraction effect? (1/8)

Question everything | Shiva Upadhye, UC Irvine language science graduate student, looks outside the box in the language science department More on her Anteater journey: socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/new…

Language Models learn a lot about language, much more than we expected, without much built-in structure. This matters for linguistics and opens up enormous opportunities. So should we just throw out linguistics? No! Quite the opposite: we need theory and structure.

Have reading time corpora been leaked into LM pre-training corpora? Should you be cautious about using pre-trained LM surprisal as a consequence? We identify the longest overlapping token sequences and conclude the leakage is mostly not severe. In Findings of #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP

Using electrical recordings taken from the surface of the brain, researchers decode what words neurosurgical patients are saying and show that the brain plans words in a different order than they are ultimately spoken. adam morgan (same handle at oo-blay eye-skay) Adeen Flinker 🇮🇱🇺🇦🎗️ nature.com/articles/s4427…

I’m honored to share that I’ve been awarded the outstanding scholarship from UCI school of social science. Huge thanks to my advisor Richard, my lovely friends, and the language science department for their support!