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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm back from Brazil!⁣ ⁣ Pictures from my first 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗦𝗰𝗶 conference, held in late July in Rio de Janeiro.⁣ ⁣

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This week we are in Rio 🌴 🦜🩴, Brazil 🇧🇷 for CogSci 😍 @frap98.bsky.social will present on a computational study of verb meaning acquisition in children co-authors: @jumelet.bsky.social @yevgenm.bsky.social @arianna-bis.bsky.social 🏛️ Session T.04 🗓️ July 24, 10:45 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Excited that our paper on minimal translation pairs for ASL was recognized with a best paper award at the Workshop on Generative AI for Sign Language @ CVPR 2026! Congrats to my co-authors @skarabuklu.bsky.social, Shester, Diane, Greg, and Karen! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.27232

Certificate for best paper award from Generative AI for Sign Language workshop!

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CoNLL 2026 @conll-conf.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Big questions!

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Last week, the 46th edition of 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗗𝗔𝗚 took place, the long-standing linguistics conference organized by the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) at the @rug.nl. This year, I had the pleasure of being part of the organizing committee!

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Interested in analyzing 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱-𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 with computational tools? Then the 𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 🪁 (pronounced [kaIt]) might be just what you’re looking for! It includes a brand-new i𝗻-𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗿, 𝗣𝗢𝗦 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿, and 𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿.

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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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 🙏!

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.

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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.💃

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

📈Join us for the CDH Guest Lecture - Enrico Daga: Humanities Knowledge Graphs: opportunities and challenges with gen-AI 📅Date: March 4th, 2026 ⏰Time: 11:00-12:30 🏫Location: Turft06 (Turftorenstraat, room 06)

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TABU Dag @tabudag.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The call is open! All researchers in linguistics and related fields and research projects are welcome to join and submit an abstract. Abstracts can be submitted through this link until March 16th 2026. For more information, check out the submission instructions on the TABU Dag website tabudag.nl

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Are you based in Groningen and want to help us evaluate the Generative AI puzzle? 🍫 We are looking for participants of every age between 16 and 60 years old. 📊 Contact us and we will deliver the puzzle and cards to you in person :)

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Abdellah Fourtassi @fourtassi.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Thrilled to announce the 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL) at ACL 2026 🎉 A new venue at the intersection of development linguistics × modern NLP, spearheaded by @fredashi.bsky.social @marstin.bsky.social, and and outstanding team of colleagues! A thread 🧵

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We are thrilled to officially announce the dates of the 46th edition of 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗗𝗔𝗚! Save the date for 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟭–𝟭𝟮 💫⁣

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier" Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD 📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

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Natural Language Processing

How do you build Large Language Models? How do humans experience Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in their daily lives? And how can we...

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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The Multilingual Minds & Machines Meetings call for abstracts is now open! Everything you need to know is here -> mmmm2026.github.io

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) workshop will be co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca!🌴Stay tuned for more details!✨ @byungdoh.bsky.social Tatsuki Kuribayashi @grambelli.bsky.social Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li, Ryo Yoshida @cmclworkshop.bsky.social

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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

📣 Save the date 🗓️ to present your exciting statistical learning research at the 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference June 10-12 2026 in San Sebastián 🇪🇸 Keynotes by @jennysaffran.bsky.social @noranewcombe.bsky.social @pyoudeyer.bsky.social More info to follow #IASL26

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Interested in developmentally plausible LMs, and the role of child-directed language data? Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers 🐮 Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!

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bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

...ii) a direct quality reward from a teacher model, and iii) a reward based on the log probabilities of a teacher model (and its dialogue continuations). While these rewards did not improve our models performance, two different DPO approaches did!

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bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

As part of this year's BabyLM challenge, we (researchers from @gronlp.bsky.social and @clausebielefeld.bsky.social diverged from established pretraining paradigm by training only on dialogue data from CHILDES.

Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM
(But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning)
Francesca Padovani1∗ Bastian Bunzeck2∗ Manar Ali2 Omar Momen2
Arianna Bisazza1 Hendrik Buschmeier2 Sina Zarrieß2
1Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen
2CRC 1646 – Linguistic Creativity in Communication, Bielefeld University
f.padovani@rug.nl bastian.bunzeck@uni-bielefeld.de

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪 Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159

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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 cpl2025.sites.uu.nl When: December 18–19, 2025 Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025 Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz

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Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 01/10/2025

Jane Goodall (1934-2025) 🤍

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bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My very first book review is out now 📚 Muchas gracias to @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for inviting me, looking forward to our next project(s) 😇

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐆, 𝐏𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐟) 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! ⁣🎉 ⁣ We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.⁣ For further details -> www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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Vacatures bij de RUG

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻! 😍 Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑‍🔬🤖 Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The 𝗜𝗟𝗖𝗕 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 in Marseille went beyond all my expectations! 💯 A week has already flown by since I had one of the most formative experiences of my PhD so far. 👩‍🎨

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We recharged our batteries with a wonderful weekend together in the province of Drenthe! 🌳🍃 As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘 We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓

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clarakunst.bsky.social @clarakunst.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Rowena Garcia is presenting research at #ISB15 showing that #crosslinguistic #priming occurs across #typologically unrelated languages & without overlap of constituent order. The degree of overlap modulated the magnitude of the effect. #Tagalog #Indonesian #English @isbilingualism.bsky.social

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

#ACL2025 has just finished and it was great to meet with old friends and connect with new colleagus. In case you missed our papers/presentations, this was us 🐮👇 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

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Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition

Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Excited to welcome a new member to the family of language-specific BLiMPs 🎊 this time putting Turkish in the spotlight! Thanks to the meticulous, linguistically grounded work of the brilliant @ezgibasar.bsky.social. We hope will help push forward research on typologically diverse languages!

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Few days back 🍦 celebrating spring, sunshine, and one of our most cherished lab member! Nothing like ice cream and an indulgent break to mark a birthday the Computational Linguistics way ☀️🎉 #GroNLP #ComputationalLinguistics #SpringVibes

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚀 #ILCB #SummerSchool 2025 – Apply Now! 🌞🧠 Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain! 🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience 🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats 📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/ Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢

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The 8th edition of the Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain (ILCB) Summer School 2025 | ILCB

Monday, September 1st – Friday, September 5th, 2025

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Giulia Rambelli @grambelli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Tomorrow at lunch, I’m giving a talk: “Discovering Linguistic Abstractions”. I’ll share @abstractionerc.bsky.social research projects (PI: @mariannabolog.bsky.social ) at the Linguistic Lunch @facultyofartsug.bsky.social. Thanks @frap98.bsky.social for the invite!

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Modern LLMs "speak" hundreds of languages... but do they really? Multilinguality claims are often based on downstream tasks like QA & MT, while *formal* linguistic competence remains hard to gauge in lots of languages Meet MultiBLiMP! (joint work w/ @jumelet.bsky.social & @weissweiler.bsky.social)

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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

✨New paper ✨ Introducing 🌍MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Minimal Pairs for Subject-Verb Agreement, covering 101 languages! We present over 125,000 minimal pairs and evaluate 17 LLMs, finding that support is still lacking for many languages. 🧵⬇️

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Small delay, but critical not to overlook the importance of it. ✊🏻 On March 18th, the academic community in Groningen took to the streets to protest the Dutch government's crazy direction to substantially cut funding to university and higher education. ✂️

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bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We just released the first version of our German BabyLM corpus: huggingface.co/datasets/bbu... It contains 16.5M words of (more or less) developmentally plausible, child-directed, child-produced or at least child-available speech 🤓

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bbunzeck/babylm-german · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This 4-year salaried position will soon open to candidates with proved expertise and interest in the areas of computational linguistics/NLP and computational cognitive modeling. Here's a preview: yevgen.web.rug.nl/phd.pdf

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

📣 Soon-to-open PhD position @gronlp.bsky.social: Come work with Annemarie van Dooren, @yevgenm.bsky.social and myself on a new project bridging Computational Linguistics methods and Language Acquisition questions, with a focus on the learning of modal verbs.

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The words I usually spend explaining to friends, family, and lay people what I am about and what the focus of my PhD is... here they are condensed into a concise and clear article. 🖌️ Small is good, small is precious, small has potential ! 👶✨ www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-resea...

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Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models? | Quanta Magazine

Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Excited to be traveling to Estonia for the 1st time to give a keynote @nodalida.bsky.social. I'll talk about using NNs to study language evolution & acquisition. A teaser: It won't be about LLMs 🙃 Also I've just moved from X, so this was my very first post... Pls help out by connecting with me!

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