Ellis Cain
@ellscain.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Computing at Kenyon College Website:
https://ellisc.dev
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New paper w/
@ryskin.bsky.social
in Open Mind! Words change: “broadcast” once meant scattering seeds; “tweet” was just a bird sound. Do older adults keep earlier meanings, or update as language evolves? Our new paper investigates how semantic representations differ across age groups. 🧵👇
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New paper w/
@ryskin.bsky.social
in Open Mind! Words change: “broadcast” once meant scattering seeds; “tweet” was just a bird sound. Do older adults keep earlier meanings, or update as language evolves? Our new paper investigates how semantic representations differ across age groups. 🧵👇
6 months ago
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reposted by
Ellis Cain
Jeff Yoshimi
9 months ago
We’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content.
downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
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reposted by
Ellis Cain
Rachel Ryskin
12 months ago
Looking forward to seeing everyone at
#CogSci2025
this week! Come check out what we’ve been working on in the LInC Lab, along with our fantastic collaborators! Paper 🔗 in 🧵👇
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New paper w/
@ryskin.bsky.social
and Chen Yu: We analyzed parent-child toy play and found that cross-situational learning statistics were present in naturalistic settings!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cogs.70078
about 1 year ago
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I'll be presenting some work with
@tylermarghetis.bsky.social
and Elizabeth Geballe at
#CES2024
on translation as transmission. Stop by if you'd like to chat about digital humanities and cross-cultural transmission! Link:
ellisc.dev/pdf/ces_2024...
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https://ellisc.dev/pdf/ces_2024.pdf
almost 2 years ago
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I’ll be presenting work I did with
@ryskin.bsky.social
in the CMCL workshop at
#ACL2024
(8/15 at 14:20 in Lotus Suite 4). Come check it out, and please find me if you’d like to discuss!
aclanthology.org/2024.cmcl-1.19
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Diachronic change in verb usage statistics predicts differences in sentence processing across the lifespan
Ellis Cain, Rachel Ryskin. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. 2024.
https://aclanthology.org/2024.cmcl-1.19
almost 2 years ago
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Excited to share a new preprint with
@ryskin.bsky.social
: Individuals continually update their meaning representations to match those of the current time period, regardless of their age! Preprint can be found at:
ssrn.com/abstract=488...
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Semantic Representations are Updated Across the Lifespan Reflecting Diachronic Language Change
Humans learn the meanings of words from the contexts in which they are used. Patterns of language use change over time, suggesting that, for some words, the con
http://ssrn.com/abstract=4883002
about 2 years ago
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