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Qing Yao

@qyao.bsky.social
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Linguistics PhD student at UT Austin

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Sasha Boguraev @sashaboguraev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"She'll go to France or Spain or Germany or France" sounds redundant—unless licensed with context like "She will go to an art program in France or Spain or a math program in Germany or France" In new work w/ @qyao.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social: an LM-based 'Neural Semantics' account 🧵👇
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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Delighted Sasha's (first year PhD!) work using mech interp to study complex syntax constructions won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP! Also delighted the ACL community continues to recognize unabashedly linguistic topics like filler-gaps... and the huge potential for LMs to inform such topics!
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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics! Asst or Assoc. We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.) faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793 🤘
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UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language
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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Excited to present this at COLM tomorrow! (Tuesday, 11:00 AM poster session)
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Siyuan Song @siyuansong.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Heading to #COLM2025 to present my first paper w/ @jennhu.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social ! When: Tuesday, 11 AM – 1 PM Where: Poster #75 Happy to chat about my work and topics in computational linguistics & cogsci! Also, I'm on the PhD application journey this cycle! Paper info 👇:
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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I’m at #COLM2025 from Wed with: @siyuansong.bsky.social Tue am introspection arxiv.org/abs/2503.07513 @qyao.bsky.social Wed am controlled rearing: arxiv.org/abs/2503.20850 @sashaboguraev.bsky.social INTERPLAY ling interp: arxiv.org/abs/2505.16002 I’ll talk at INTERPLAY too. Come say hi!
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Language Models Fail to Introspect About Their Knowledge of Language
There has been recent interest in whether large language models (LLMs) can introspect about their own internal states. Such abilities would make LLMs more interpretable, and also validate the use of s...
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Sasha Boguraev @sashaboguraev.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I will be giving a short talk on this work at the COLM Interplay workshop on Friday (also to appear at EMNLP)! Will be in Montreal all week and excited to chat about LM interpretability + its interaction with human cognition and ling theory.
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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The compling group at UT Austin (sites.utexas.edu/compling/) is looking for PhD students! Come join me, @kmahowald.bsky.social, and @jessyjli.bsky.social as we tackle interesting research questions at the intersection of ling, cogsci, and ai! Some topics I am particularly interested in:
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Qing Yao @qyao.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
LMs learn argument-based preferences for dative constructions (preferring recipient first when it’s shorter), consistent with humans. Is this from memorizing preferences in training? New paper w/ @kanishka.bsky.social , @weissweiler.bsky.social , @kmahowald.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2503.20850
examples from direct and prepositional object datives with short-first and long-first word orders: 
DO (long first): She gave the boy who signed up for class and was excited it.
PO (short first): She gave it to the boy who signed up for class and was excited.
DO (short first): She gave him the book that everyone was excited to read.
PO (long-first): She gave the book that everyone was excited to read to him.
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