🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

If you are interested in topics at the intersection of NLP, Cognitive Science, and Linguistics, please consider applying to the Georgetown PhD program. It's fully funded, and we have a lively 💃🪩🕺 interdisciplinary community on campus!

Very glad and grateful to share this fun work, especially because of the opportunity to work with this immensely talented team--Julian Minder, Niklas Stoehr, Giovanni Monea, Chris Wendler, Bob West, & Ryan Cotterell 🥳. Check it out!

📣 We are happy to share that CMCL 2025 will be co-located with NAACL in New Mexico! 👉The call for papers is out cmclorg.github.io/CfP SAVE THE DATES, and submit your work! ‼️ Paper submission deadline: Feb 16, 2025 🗓 May 3 or 4, 2025: Workshop (TBA) NAACL NAACL HLT 2025

Happy to share that our scientific inquiry paper on training language models with RL **from scratch** has been accepted to #NAACL2025! Many thanks to my collaborator Anderson Wang 💪

This week I came back to San Diego and successfully defended my dissertation, “A Linguistic Approach to Crosslingual and Multilingual NLP”!

Position opening: #CompLing, #NLP, #CogSci Junior Group Leader / PostDoc (4y, German E14 salary scale) Universität Tübingen - no teaching obligations - PhD co-supervision - dynamic interdisciplinary team in one of Germany’s top research universities tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2

📣Paper Update 📣It’s bigger! It’s better! Even if the language models aren’t. 🤖New version of “Bigger is not always Better: The importance of human-scale language modeling for psycholinguistics” osf.io/preprints/psya…

So excited about this line of work 👨‍🔬 We use LLMs as a tool 🔧 to better understand linguistic typology: Their ability to learn complex probability distributions 📊 gives quantitative insights into the different strategies languages use to transmit information through prosody 🎶

Honored to have received a Senior Area Chair award at #ACL2025 for our Prosodic Typology paper. Huge shout out to the whole team: Cui Ding, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt, Tamar Regev!

So excited this work was recognized! We've only scratched the surface of prosodic typology, and I'm even more excited to probe deeper 🔬