Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...
Ein Auswahl-Captcha mit sechs KI-generierten Bildern, zwei davon von Brücken. Aufforderung: „Wählen Sie das passendste Bild ‚Brücke‘“
Neues Beispiel für Prototypentheorie just dropped. Welche KI-generierte Brücke ist die brückigste?
New paper on LLMs and research methodology: Justify your prompts! direct.mit.edu/coli/article...
#nlproc
Here is one reason you might want to treat whitespace separately: words w/ and w/o a leading whitespace get tokenized differently.
Having a separate whitespace token would unify a lot of these.
Title page for the paper “A systematic framework for generating novel experimental hypotheses from language models”, with an epigraph from Jeff Elman describing how Rumelhart and McClelland (1982) did hypothesis generation with their connectionist network, and a figure describing our pipeline.
Announcing a new version of our 2024 paper on linguistic hypothesis generation from LMs!
@najoung.bsky.social and I have systematized our hypothesis generation framework, added stringent criteria for model selection, 10x-ed our learning trials, and included an epigraph from Jeff Elman 🙏!
Richard @futrell.bsky.social and I have posted our response to the commentaries on our BBS target article "How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models." The response is: "You Can't Fight in Here! This is BBS!" arxiv.org/abs/2604.09501
On May 8, Stichting Open Spraaktechnologie organizes a workshop on evaluation and interpretability of spoken language systems. Featuring @wzuidema.bsky.social, @hmohebbi.bsky.social, @gaofeishen.com, @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social, @mdhk.net & @cpouw.bsky.social
openspraaktechnologie.org/nieuws/works...
I’m very happy to share that my latest paper on the 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, tested on models trained under CDL data vs ADL data , has been accepted for an 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at the upcoming edition of 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐒𝐜𝐢, which will take place at the end of July in Rio de Janeiro.💃
Want to join the Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting, June 22-23 in Nijmegen? Registration is open until 1 May! mmmm2026.github.io
If you’re a student and your paper didn’t make it to ACL this time, don’t worry — there’s still an opportunity to present your work.
The ACL 2026 Student Research Workshop (SRW) accepts papers via ARR commitment.
🗓 Deadline: April 15, 2026 (AoE)
🔗 openreview.net/group?id=acl...
A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.
There is no McTry.
It’s perfect 🤩
I am disappointed that the question "Is AI in a bubble" has reduced to the question "Do any AI companies generate revenue?"
I was very intrigued to learn that Mythos is actually a model of the human mind, and this AI system definitively proves - beyond any doubt - that the human mind operates like an LLM.
Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @vicom visual communication research cluster!
Apply by April 28 - or contact me with questions. #emojis #linguistics #job […]
Will I go for a third round of ARR? Will I submit to a workshop instead? Who knows. 🤭
Excited to announce that my submission to ACL 2026 has not been accepted. 🎉
The paper acceptance notifications will be out by the 6th of April, AoE. The PCs are working hard throughout the holiday season to finalize the decisions.
Apologies for the delay!
Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...
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Lots of people want Gemma 4!
Google AI Edge is #8 on the iOS App Store for productivity apps. x.com/OfficialLoga...
gifs are a social construct
Call for a PhD position in Cognitively inspired natural language processing with Lisa Beinborn and me. Part of the new SPP "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology” (LaSTing). huds.uni-goettingen.de/assets/Call_...
Complaining on social media with YouTube in another tab, Spotify playing while ordering an Uber and scrolling your cloud backed up photos is like driving to the grocery story while cursing the existence of roads.
📍It's official! #INLG2026 is coming to Utrecht, Netherlands, Oct 17-21! Hosted with support from Utrecht University and the local NLP community. Follow us here and check 2026.inlgmeeting.org for updates -- hope to see you there!
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
Google releases Gemma 4. ✨
Gemma 4 introduces 4 models: E2B, E4B, 26B-A4B, 31B.
The multimodal reasoning models are under Apache 2.0.
Run E2B and E4B on ~6GB RAM, and on phones.
Run 26B-A4B and 31B on ~18GB.
GGUFs: huggingface.co/collections/...
Guide: unsloth.ai/docs/models/...
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨
I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my ERC-funded project on fetal brain development in multilingual contexts. 🧠 🤰🗣️
📍Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France
📅 Start: September 2026
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Please reach out with any questions!
New paradigm alert! 🎮
AgenticPCG
We combine classic PCG (Procedural Content Generation) algorithms with large language models for generating game levels. LLMs on their own are not good at level generation, but when given the right tools from our PCG toolbox they're killing it!
book review, the scaling era, an oral history, chap 1
1) readers of this post will probably be familiar with the ideas of this chapter; it is about the scaling hypothesis
