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Xiulin Yang @xiulinyang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🍎🍊 How would you know if a language model is better at one language than another? Our #EMNLP2026 paper argues that only one metric can actually lead to fair crosslingual evaluation. This work is a collaboration with @wegotlieb.bsky.social & @catherinearnett.bsky.social! (1/5)

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Georgetown Linguistics @georgetownlingdept.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Virtual information session for Georgetown’s 2-year Master’s in Computational Linguistics! Learn about our courses in NLP, psycholinguistics, low-resource languages, digital humanities, and LLMs, plus phonology, syntax, & semantics. DM for registration link. Friday Nov. 21 | 10–11 AM #linguistics

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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

New work to appear @ TACL! Language models (LMs) are remarkably good at generating novel well-formed sentences, leading to claims that they have mastered grammar. Yet they often assign higher probability to ungrammatical strings than to grammatical strings. How can both things be true? 🧵👇

Screenshot of a figure with two panels, labeled (a) and (b). The caption reads: "Figure 1: (a) Illustration of messages (left) and strings (right) in toy domain. Blue = grammatical strings. Red = ungrammatical strings. (b) Surprisal (negative log probability) assigned to toy strings by GPT-2."

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Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox @wegotlieb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I will be recruiting PhD students via Georgetown Linguistics this application cycle! Come join us in the PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) lab. We focus on psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling using LLMs. See the linked flyer for more details: bit.ly/3L3vcyA

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Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox @wegotlieb.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🌟🌟This paper will appear at ACL 2025 (@aclmeeting.bsky.social)! New updated version is on arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07659 🌟🌟

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Sasha Boguraev @sashaboguraev.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A key hypothesis in the history of linguistics is that different constructions share underlying structure. We take advantage of recent advances in mechanistic interpretability to test this hypothesis in Language Models. New work with @kmahowald.bsky.social and @cgpotts.bsky.social! 🧵👇!

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Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox @wegotlieb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

📣Paper Update 📣It’s bigger! It’s better! Even if the language models aren’t. 🤖New version of “Bigger is not always Better: The importance of human-scale language modeling for psycholinguistics” osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Cui Ding @cuiding.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Excited to share our preprint "Using MoTR to probe agreement errors in Russian"! w/ Metehan Oğuz, @wegotlieb.bsky.social, Zuzanna Fuchs Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1- We provide moderate evidence that processing of agreement errors is modulated by agreement type (internal vs external agr.)

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Me and @wegotlieb.bsky.social were recently invited to write a wide-ranging reflection on the current state of linguistic theory and methodology. A draft is up here. For anyone interested in thinking big about linguistics, we'd be happy to hear your thoughts! arxiv.org/abs/2502.18313 #linguistics

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Looking forward: Linguistic theory and methods

This chapter examines current developments in linguistic theory and methods, focusing on the increasing integration of computational, cognitive, and evolutionary perspectives. We highlight four major ...

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