Sathvik
@sathvik.bsky.social
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computational psycholinguistics @ umd he/him
pinned post!
I’ll be at
#HSP2025
! I’m presenting a poster in session 4 on how semantic factors might affect timing data from a speeded cloze task (w
@virmalised.us
, Philip Resnik, and
@colinphillips.bsky.social
)
hsp2025.github.io/abstracts/19...
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UMD Language Science Center
22 days ago
We captured so many great moments from Language Science Day, thanks to Andrea Zukowski! We wish we could share them all here, but you can see the full gallery on our Flickr page. Click here to check them out:
flickr.com/photos/umd-l...
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If any friends are at Cog Sci, I’ll be in SF tomorrow! Let me know if you’d like to meet!
3 months ago
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Sam Gershman
4 months ago
The sycophantic tone of ChatGPT always sounded familiar, and then I recognized where I'd heard it before: author response letters to reviewer comments. "You're exactly right, that's a great point!" "Thank you so much for this insight!" Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.
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Lindia Tjuatja
5 months ago
When it comes to text prediction, where does one LM outperform another? If you've ever worked on LM evals, you know this question is a lot more complex than it seems. In our new
#acl2025
paper, we developed a method to find fine-grained differences between LMs: 🧵1/9
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Iris van Rooij 💭
6 months ago
NEW paper! 💭🖥️ “Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?” — Brief review paper by
@olivia.science
& myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Aniello De Santo
6 months ago
A bit late but since I really like this paper, a bit of self-advertising! I am presenting at CMCL today work showing that metrics measuring how a Minimalist Grammar parser modulates memory usage can help us model Self-paced reading data for SRC/ORC contrasts:
aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.5/
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Capturing Online SRC/ORC Effort with Memory Measures from a Minimalist Parser
Aniello De Santo. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. 2025.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.5/
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Ben Lipkin
7 months ago
New preprint on controlled generation from LMs! I'll be presenting at NENLP tomorrow 12:50-2:00pm Longer thread coming soon :)
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Kanishka Misra 🌊
8 months ago
another day another minicons update (potentially a significant one for psycholinguists?) "Word" scoring is now a thing! You just have to supply your own splitting function! pip install -U minicons for merriment
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I’ll also be presenting a talk based on this work Friday afternoon at HSP. Very excited to share it with a psycholinguistics-focused audience!
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8 months ago
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I’ll be at
#HSP2025
! I’m presenting a poster in session 4 on how semantic factors might affect timing data from a speeded cloze task (w
@virmalised.us
, Philip Resnik, and
@colinphillips.bsky.social
)
hsp2025.github.io/abstracts/19...
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https://hsp2025.github.io/abstracts/195.pdf
8 months ago
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Sebastián
8 months ago
I’ll be presenting a poster at HSP 2025 in about a week. It’s on memory for pronominal clitic placement in Spanish, come stop by and say hi if you can!
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Iris van Rooij 💭
10 months ago
🎬🎥🍿 Video of my keynote at MathPsych2024 now available online
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwN...
#CogSci
#CriticalAI
#AIhype
#AGI
#PsychSci
#PhilSci
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Iris van Rooij keynote at MathPsych/ICCM 2024
YouTube video by Society for Mathematical Psychology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwNPVTjJpo
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Bertram Højer
11 months ago
What do YOU mean by "intelligence", and does ChatGPT fit your definition? We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out! Access link:
www.survey-xact.dk/collect
Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536 Time: 5-10 mins
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Perspectives on Intelligence: Community Survey
Research survey exploring how NLP/ML/CogSci researchers define and use the concept of intelligence.
https://bertramhojer.github.io/projects/intelligence-survey/
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Hal Daumé III
11 months ago
starter pack for the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing group at the University of Maryland - get all your NLP and data science here!
go.bsky.app/V9qWjEi
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Leonie Weissweiler
12 months ago
@kanishka.bsky.social
and I have made a starter pack for researchers working broadly on linguistic interpretability and LLMs!
go.bsky.app/F9qzAUn
Please message me or comment on this post if you've noticed someone who we forgot or would like to be added yourself!
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️
12 months ago
"Hey everyone! 👋 I’ve created a starter pack of South Asian artists, authors, academics, activists, and orgs. I’ll keep it updated—DM me or reply if you or someone you know should be added! ✨"
go.bsky.app/GGd6dxU
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I’ll be presenting two posters on (psycho)linguistically motivated perspectives on LM generalization at
#EMNLP2024
! 1. Sensitivity to Argument Roles - Session 2 &
#BlackBoxNLP
2. Learning & Filler-Gap Dependencies -
#CoNLL
Excited to chat with other folks interested in compling x cogsci! papers⬇️
about 1 year ago
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5-gram of the day: "language models from computational linguistics"
over 1 year ago
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Today I learned that I may not have a successful psycholinguistics career because I got a B in databases.
over 1 year ago
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Panicked after seeing AGI on my tax form
over 1 year ago
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
over 1 year ago
This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.
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yelled about lexicalism in my NLU seminar do i get a prize
over 1 year ago
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Vicki
almost 2 years ago
LLMs are so weird because one side is people with five PhDs who have been studying neuron activations for the past three decades and on the other side is someone called leetm5n with an anime avatar just casually releasing increasingly better performing fine tunes of mistral
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Laura Gwilliams
almost 2 years ago
We’re excited about our first paper looking at speech encoding in single neurons across the depth of human cortex. Out today in @nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Large-scale single-neuron speech sound encoding across the depth of human cortex - Nature
High-density single-neuron recordings show diverse tuning for acoustic and phonetic features across layers in human auditory speech cortex.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06839-2
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Honored my paper was accepted to Findings of
#EMNLP2023
! Many psycholinguistics studies use LLMs to estimate the probability of words in context. But LLMs process statistically derived subword tokens, while human processing doesn't. Does this matter? (w/Philip Resnik) 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2310.17774
about 2 years ago
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The Spark Society
about 2 years ago
It's great to see the SPARK Society growing on this platform. Many are interested in supporting the principles upheld by SPARK but are not members. Consider membership. Membership is for ALL SCIENTISTS who are allied in supporting scholars from diverse backgrounds in Cognitive Psychology.
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Stephan Meylan
about 2 years ago
How do adults understand children’s early, highly variable speech? Our new paper in Nature Human Behavior (
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
) provides evidence that adults’ interpretations depend quite strongly on language expectations—what they think children are likely to say. 1/
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Jennifer Hu
about 2 years ago
To researchers doing LLM evaluation: prompting is *not a substitute* for direct probability measurements. Check out the camera-ready version of our work, to appear at EMNLP 2023! (w/
@rplevy.bsky.social
) Paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2305.13264
Original thread:
twitter.com/_jennhu/stat...
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Xinchi Yu
about 2 years ago
Do check out these fun posters from our University of Maryland Linguistics “delegation” to SNL! :)
#SNL2023
linguistics.umd.edu/news/marylan...
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folukeifejola
about 2 years ago
This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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BlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars form
This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-Arc2bhvSqT700taFSjXK3za82DZTuGCT2gFVbsFN6otCPA/viewform?usp=sf_link
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this grant writing process has made me realize i focus on questions that ask "to what extent" way too much
about 2 years ago
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David Bamman
about 2 years ago
This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30.
www.copyright.gov/ai/
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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence | U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright law
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/
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Roger Levy
about 2 years ago
Yi Ting Huang and I have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher on an NSF-funded project, "Syntactic processing across socioeconomic status: Linking input to comprehension". Apply by Nov 15; start Jul 1, 2024 with flexibility. Please disseminate widely!
ejobs.umd.edu/postings/114...
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Post Doctoral Associate
Dr. Yi Ting Huang of the University of Maryland (UMD) and Dr. Roger Levy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are seeking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work on a collaborative in...
https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/114101
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i realized that my GRFP proposal is baaaasically my idea of what my dissertation will look like??? we're not ready for this
about 2 years ago
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Timo B. Roettger
about 2 years ago
Mouse tracking for reading? 🤔 "We show that MoTR data correlate well with previously-collected eye tracking data"
psyarxiv.com/4ryvs
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Carl T. Bergstrom
about 2 years ago
Nice try but I won't believe that crows are doing statistics until they start writing blog posts about how their junior colleagues' work doesn't replicate.
arstechnica.com/science/2023...
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For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic
The birds can associate images with distinct reward probabilities.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/for-the-first-time-research-reveals-crows-use-statistical-logic/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
about 2 years ago
A pattern I have noticed is that even tho I have worked in baby, decision-making, cog/neuro/psych labs and even a year out of academia, my interdisciplinary expertise is subtractive. Men's is multiplicative. I'm not even seen as a "real AI" person, even tho I work in an AI dept.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle
about 2 years ago
thinking you can replace your writers because you have AI is like thinking you don’t need an engineering department because you have calculators
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Robert Hawkins
about 2 years ago
congrats to
@clairebergey.bsky.social
on the excellent work!! “Overall, people are able to use contrastive inferences from description to resolve reference and make inferences about a novel object’s category, letting them learn more about new things than literal meaning alone allows.”
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Using contrastive inferences to learn about new words and categories
In the face of unfamiliar language or objects, description is one cue people can use to learn about both. Beyond narrowing potential referents to thos…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027723002317
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brb making 16oz of chai instead of using chatgpt
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about 2 years ago
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maybe looking at my GRFP ideas from 2 years ago wasn't the best way to start working on it. i guess....we have grown since then...
about 2 years ago
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what if i commit to using non-lexicalist approaches hmmm
about 2 years ago
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Allison Dods
about 2 years ago
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Robert Hawkins
about 2 years ago
obligatory tag dump: 🧪 research #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #CogPsyc #AcademicSky #linguistics 🧠💬 🗣💬
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every time i think of an agreement attraction study, i would like to have a little voice in my head that just says "don't".
about 2 years ago
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Dr Abeba Birhane
about 2 years ago
Petition to replace "bias" with "harm," "injustice," "oppression," or other appropriate terms that reflect the depth of these problems in algorithmic systems.
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We love going from a 40 minute to a hour and a half commute :)
about 2 years ago
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Jess Zimmerman
about 2 years ago
I agree with this STRONGLY as a person whose gender is “mind your own business” but it’s an easy fix: phrase it as “please share pronouns people can use for you in this context” or some other language that frames this as a question about etiquette rather than identity
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i'm teaching next semester and am really worried about seeming passive aggressive if i send students emails with ":)" in the text. zillenial things.
about 2 years ago
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Vicki
about 2 years ago
Me and the AWS docs
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