New paper out in Cognitive Science! We analyzed various predictors of local ambiguity resolution on a heterogeneous set of garden-path sentences, namely surprisal, frequency, plausibility and cloze scores (measuring the likelihood of misanalysis of the ambiguous region). 1/2

🗓️ SwissText 2026 keynote speakers announced & registration open! We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Alexandra Birch and Dr. Valentina Pyatkin as our keynote speakers. 📋 Register here: ema.uzh.ch/RHK4W Early-bird rates available throughout April, with additional student discounts. #NLProc 1/3

My lab is recruiting one PhD student and one post-doctoral researcher for a start as soon as this Summer! Apply by April 1 / March 31 to be among first candidates considered. jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

So happy to have presented our project on **Individual signatures of spillover** at CPL2025. Grateful to my supervisor Lena Jaeger, for her great ideas and for her kind support! Thanks to my coauthors and the audience at CPL2025. The award was a democratic vote by the audience!

New preprint on prosody in the brain! tinyurl.com/2ndswjwu HeeSoKim NiharikaJhingan SaraSwords @hopekean.bsky.social @coltoncasto.bsky.social JenniferCole @evfedorenko.bsky.social Prosody areas are distinct from pitch, speech, and multiple-demand areas, and partly overlap with lang+social areas→🧵

Take a look at how we challenge state-of-the-art NLP systems to recognize token-level semantic differences across languages with our new SwissGov-RSD dataset! @vamvas.bsky.social @ricosennrich.bsky.social Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.075... Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/Zur... #NLProc

#NeurIPS2025 Check out EyeBench 👀, a mega-project which provides a much needed infrastructure for loading & preprocessing eye-tracking for reading datasets, and addressing super exciting modeling challenges: decoding linguistic knowledge 👩 and reading interactions 👩+📖 from gaze! eyebench.github.io

Wow! Thank you so much!!

UZH group picture at #EMNLP2025! If you're here, catch us for a chat!

👀Ever wondered how visual information quality affects reading and language processing? Our new #EMNLP2025 paper with @wegotlieb.bsky.social, Lena Jäger -- “Modeling Bottom-up Information Quality during Language Processing”, bridges psycholinguistics and multimodal LLMs. 🧠💡👇 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17047

Let's meet at #EMNLP and talk about multilingual knowledge benchmarks! ⚠️MLAMA is full of disfluent sentences ❓Reason: templated translation 💡Simple full-sentence translation improves factual retrieval up to 25% 🙌Remember to check your benchmarks with speakers! Link: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15115

💥Introducing new paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.17715, QueST — train specialized generators to create challenging coding problems. From Qwen3-8B-Base ✅ 100K synthetic problems: better than Qwen3-8B ✅ Combining with human written problems: matches DeepSeek-R1-671B 🧵(1/5)

Exciting #rstats news for Bayesian model comparison: bridgesampling is finally ready to support cmdstanr, see screenshot. Help us by installing the development version of bridgesampling and letting us know if it works for your model(s): pak::pkg_install("quentingronau/bridgesampling#44")

We are done with the ninth Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP) summer school, Potsdam, Germany. The tenth edition is planned for 24-28 August 2026.

Honoured to receive two (!!) SAC highlights awards at #ACL2025 😁 (Conveniently placed on the same slide!) With the amazing: @philipwitti.bsky.social, @gregorbachmann.bsky.social and @wegotlieb.bsky.social, @cuiding.bsky.social, Giovanni Acampa, @alexwarstadt.bsky.social, @tamaregev.bsky.social

Congratulations to @sinaahmadi.bsky.social and co-authors for receiving an ACL 2025 Outstanding Paper Award for PARME: Parallel Corpora for Low-Resourced Middle Eastern Languages! aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

Next week onwards, I'm teaching a five-day introductory course on Bayesian Data Analysis in Gent. Newly recorded video lectures to accompany the course are now online: vasishth.github.io/LecturesIntr...

📣Take part in 3rd Terminology shared task @WMT!📣 This year: 👉5 language pairs: EN->{ES, RU, DE, ZH}, 👉2 tracks - sentence-level and doc-level translation, 👉authentic data from 2 domains: finance and IT! www2.statmt.org/wmt25/termin... Don't miss an opportunity - we only do it once in two years😏

Some of my colleagues are already very excited about this work!

If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :) github.com/tpimentelms/...

👀 📖 Big news! 📖 👀 Happy to announce the release of the OneStop Eye Movements dataset! 🎉 🎉 OneStop is the product of over 6 years of experimental design, data collection and data curation. github.com/lacclab/OneS...

I am so proud of this work. My first NLP experience. I learned a lot from this amazing team!!!!

⭐🗣️New preprint out: 🗣️⭐ “Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent” with @cuiding.bsky.social , Giovanni Acampa, @tpimentel.bsky.social , @alexwarstadt.bsky.social ,Tamar Regev: arxiv.org/abs/2505.07659

Excited to share our preprint "Using MoTR to probe agreement errors in Russian"! w/ Metehan Oğuz, @wegotlieb.bsky.social, Zuzanna Fuchs Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1- We provide moderate evidence that processing of agreement errors is modulated by agreement type (internal vs external agr.)