NNetNav learns how to navigate websites by mimicking childhood learning through exploration.

Construction grammar posits that constructions (form-meaning pairings) are acquired through experience with language (the distributional learning hypothesis). But how much information about…

A large scale video dataset and a benchmark for evaluating frontier models' understanding of physical social norms through videos.

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.

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Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.

Speech and Language Processing

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

Language models (LMs), like other neural networks, often favor shortcut heuristics based on surface-level patterns. Although LMs behave like n-gram models early in training, they must eventually learn...