Presented our new **reading time benchmark for Human Sentence Processing modeling** at the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting in Utrecht 🧠
Expected to be released in open-source in the upcoming months. Keep an eye out! 👀
Poster title: Does multimodal pre-activation influence linguistic expectations in LLMs and humans? Authors: Sasha Kenjeeva, Giovanni Cassani, Noortje Venhuizen, Afra Alishahi
Poster title: Generalizing Without Evidence: How Transformer Models Infer Syntactic Rules From Sparse Input Authors: Mark van den Hoorn, Raquel G. Alhama
Poster title: Dependency Length, Syntactic Complexity & Memory: A Reading Time Benchmark for Sentence Processing Modeling Authors: Nina Nusbaumer, Corentin Bel, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Guillaume Wisniewski, Benoit Crabbé
Poster title: The success of Neural Language Models on syntactic island effects is not universal: strong wh-island sensitivity in English but not in Dutch Authors: Michelle Suijkerbuijk, Naomi Tachikawa Shapiro, Peter de Swart, Stefan L. Frank
Cool posters from day 2!
@sashakenjeeva.bsky.social openreview.net/forum?id=Vtd...
github.com/markvandenho... openreview.net/forum?id=rX3...
@nina-nusbaumer.bsky.social openreview.net/forum?id=GRz...
www.ru.nl/personen/sui... openreview.net/forum?id=NcJ...
Another banger from @tallinzen.bsky.social .
Also fits with some of the criticisms of Centaur and my faculty-based approach generally; if you want LLMs to model human cognition, give them more architecture akin to human faculty psychology like long and short-term memory.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.05141
First paper is out! Had so much fun presenting it in Marseille last July 🇨🇵
We explore how transformers handle compositionality by exploring the representations of the idiomatic and literal meaning of the same noun phrase (e.g. "silver spoon").
aclanthology.org/2025.jeptaln...