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Yevgeni Berzak

@whylikethis.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof. at the Technion. Computational Psycholinguistics, NLP, Cognitive Science. lacclab.github.io

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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New (fully human written) cool paper at #EMNLP2026 led by Shachar Frenkel, Ido Falah and Omer Shubi, "Language Proficiency Assessment from Eye Movements in Naturalistic Passage Reading" arxiv.org/abs/2608.30583
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wonderful work by @andreadevarda.bsky.social linking behavioral and neural manifestations of language comprehension using language models. With @rplevy.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New paper at CL! Eye Tracking Based Cognitive Evaluation of Automatic Readability Assessment Methods TLDR: existing readability assessment methods (including LLMs) are poor predictors of reading ease. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11150 Image: a readability formula from 1948 still in use
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New paper at CL! Eye Tracking Based Cognitive Evaluation of Automatic Readability Assessment Methods TLDR: existing readability assessment methods (including LLMs) are poor predictors of reading ease. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11150 Image: a readability formula from 1948 still in use
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CoNLL 2026 @conll-conf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
CoNLL 2026 is just around the corner! Join us for our first keynote: Michael C. Frank (Stanford University) “Comparing early language learning in children and language models” 📅 Friday, July 3, 2026 🕘 09:15 📍 Room Harbor B #CoNLL2026 #NLP #LanguageAcquisition
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CoNLL 2026 @conll-conf.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hallucinated references are the talk of the town now. How did we go about paper submissions with "hallucinated" references? At CoNLL, we viewed incorrect references as a violation of fundamental scholarly standards, and papers with such references were not sent for review.
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Coming up at ICLR! Check out pretty incredible work by Cfir Hadar, Omer Shubi, Yoav Meiri and Amit Heshes on decoding open-ended reading goals from eye movements 👀 🤯 openreview.net/pdf?id=fHr1u...
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CoNLL 2026 @conll-conf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨 CoNLL 2026: Call for Papers 🚨 📍San Diego | July 3–4, 2026 (co-located w/ ACL). 🙋‍♀️Focus: theoretically/cognitively motivated CL & NLP NEW Areas: Computational Usage-Based Grammars + Language & the Brain. (Online presentation option available) 📅 Deadline Feb 19, 2026 (AoE): bit.ly/4kgRyKF
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ACL 2026 Workshop CoNLL
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for ACL 2026 Workshop CoNLL
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A short survey on research practices with eye-tracking data, especially in reading studies, as part of the OpenEye Project soscisurvey.de/OpenEye/ Deadline for participation: December 20
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Questionnaire | page 1
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Super excited to co-chair (with Claire Bonial) my favorite NLP conference - CoNLL! If you think your work will matter not just now, but also in 5 or 10 years, you should submit it to CoNLL 2026! CFP: conll.org
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CoNLL 2026 | CoNLL
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
fun pre-print for your start of week reading: "People Make Graded Judgments About The Inconceivable" (by Hu, Sosa, and me) doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Now out in Scientific Data, OneStop: A 360-Participant English Eye Tracking Dataset with Different Reading Regimes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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OneStop: A 360-Participant English Eye Tracking Dataset with Different Reading Regimes - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - OneStop: A 360-Participant English Eye Tracking Dataset with Different Reading Regimes
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#NeurIPS2025 Check out EyeBench 👀, a mega-project which provides a much needed infrastructure for loading & preprocessing eye-tracking for reading datasets, and addressing super exciting modeling challenges: decoding linguistic knowledge 👩 and reading interactions 👩+📖 from gaze! eyebench.github.io
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It's officially been 75 years since the proposal of the Turing Test, a good time bring up 'The Minimal Turing Test': www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
if any
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
my friend/colleague Frank Jäkel wrote a book on AI. I sadly don't know German but I happily know Frank, and I've heard him talking about this for a while now, and just on that basis I'd recommend the German speakers in the audience check it out
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We had a lot of fun delivering the Eye Tracking and NLP tutorial at ACL! The slides are available on the tutorial website acl2025-eyetracking-and-nlp.github.io
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ACL 2025 Tutorial: Eye Tracking and NLP
ACL 2025 Tutorial on Eye Tracking and NLP
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Orit Peleg @oritpeleg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Help us record firefly flashes! 👇🙏
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
OECS thematic collections.
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Emily Morgan @emilynguist.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I'm hiring a postdoc to start this fall! Come work with me? recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07123
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Post-Doctoral position - Department of Linguistics
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
👀 📖 Big news! 📖 👀 Happy to announce the release of the OneStop Eye Movements dataset! 🎉 🎉 OneStop is the product of over 6 years of experimental design, data collection and data curation. github.com/lacclab/OneS...
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Titus von der Malsburg @tmalsburg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New paper! We show that eye movements during normal reading (no extra task) are effective at predicting reading comprehension as measured by recall. Both early and late eye-movement measures are key. This research was led by the amazing Diane Mézière. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library
Recent research on the use of eye movements to predict performance on reading comprehension tasks suggests that while eye movements may be used to measure comprehension, the relationship between eye-...
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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In person (no streaming/zoom) sentence processing workshop at Potsdam with Tal Linzen, Brian Dillon, Titus von der Malsburg, Oezge Bakay, William Timkey, Pia Schoknecht, Michael Vrazitulis, and Johan Hennert: vasishth.github.io/sentproc-wor...
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Sentence processing workshop, May 27, 2025
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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🤖🧠 Paper out in Nature Communications! 🧠🤖 Bayesian models can learn rapidly. Neural networks can handle messy, naturalistic data. How can we combine these strengths? Our answer: Use meta-learning to distill Bayesian priors into a neural network! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n
A schematic of our method. On the left are shown Bayesian inference (visualized using Bayes’ rule and a portrait of the Reverend Bayes) and neural networks (visualized as a weight matrix). Then, an arrow labeled “meta-learning” combines Bayesian inference and neural networks into a “prior-trained neural network”, described as a neural network that has the priors of a Bayesian model – visualized as the same portrait of Reverend Bayes but made out of numbers. Finally, an arrow labeled “learning” goes from the prior-trained neural network to two examples of what it can learn: formal languages (visualized with a finite-state automaton) and aspects of English syntax (visualized with a parse tree for the sentence “colorless green ideas sleep furiously”).
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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Made a new assignment for a class on Computational Psycholinguistics: - I trained a Transformer language model on sentences sampled from a PCFG - The students' task: Given the Transformer, try to infer the PCFG (w/ a leaderboard for who got closest) Would recommend! 1/n
On the left is a probabilistic context free grammar (PCFG). On the right is an image of the Transformer architecture. There are arrows going back and forth between the PCFG and the Transformer, showing how the assignment goes back and forth between them.
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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Check out our new work on introspection in LLMs! 🔍 TL;DR we find no evidence that LLMs have privileged access to their own knowledge. Beyond the study of LLM introspection, our findings inform an ongoing debate in linguistics research: prompting (eg grammaticality judgments) =/= prob measurement!
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
it's only Consciousness if it comes from the Consciousness region of the brain, otherwise its just sparkling attention
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
new preprint on Theory of Mind in LLMs, a topic I know a lot of people care about (I care. I'm part of people): "Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models" (by Hu* @jennhu.bsky.social , Sosa, and me) link: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.21098
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Guy Davidson ✈️ NeurIPS 2025 @guydav.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723
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Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)
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EvLab
Our research aims to understand how the language system works and how it fits into the broader landscape of the human mind and brain.
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The 3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension will take place on June 5–7, 2025 at the University of Stuttgart! Submit an abstract by March 1st and join us! tmalsburg.github.io/Comprehensio...
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The 3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading ComprehensionJune 5–7, 2025, University of Stuttgart
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Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So excited to receive the Troland Award!! Huge congrats to the other winner—Nick Turk-Browne! And TY, as always, to my mentors&nominators, to my amazing labbies past&present, and to all the wonderful and supportive colleagues in our broader scientific community. <3 www.nasonline.org/award/trolan...
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Troland Research Award – NAS
Two Troland Research Awards of $75,000 are given annually to recognize unusual achievement by early-career researchers (preferably 45 years of age or younger) and to further empirical research within ...
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Fantastic resource!
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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
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Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal. Deadline January 31st! #NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics
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Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research
Call for Papers: Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research.
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New potential side effect of participating in an eyetracking study in our lab - curly eyelashes #thingswedoforscience
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
If one of your new year's resolutions is to collect eyetracking data this year, check out these cool tutorials on determining the dominant eye and calibrating EyeLink eyetrackers, filmed in our lab for the MultiplEYE project! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCU... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETDU...
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Dominant Eye Test - MultiplEYE
YouTube video by MultiplEYE
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
so excited about this one, out now in American Psychologist, "The Detection of Automatic Behavior in Other People" (with Ilona Bass & me) link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Josh McDermott @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing - Nature Communications
Ears encode sound with precisely timed spikes, but the perceptual role of this temporal coding remains uncertain. Here, the authors report that high-fidelity temporal coding is necessary for neural ne...
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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Slides from the tutorial are now posted here! neurips.cc/media/neurip...
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Yevgeni Berzak @whylikethis.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
📖👀🤖 David Reich, Omer Shubi, Lena Jäger and I will give a tutorial on Eyetracking and NLP at ACL 2025! We will discuss eyetracking fundamentals, available resources, integrating eye movements during reading in NLP models, using NLP for modeling eye movements, and exciting new applications. Join us!
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)
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Ben Lipkin @benlipkin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Lots of folks talking about scaling LLM inference over this last year Internally, I’ve been developing and using a library that makes this extremely easy, and I decided to open-source it Meet the decoding library: github.com/benlipkin/de... 1/7
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GitHub - benlipkin/decoding: Composable inference algorithms with LLMs and programmable logic
Composable inference algorithms with LLMs and programmable logic - benlipkin/decoding
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Imagine a snail. Imagine 5 snails. Imagine a snail on a sail. Imagine something that isn’t a snail. now read a new pre-print: "Relations, Negations, & Numbers: Looking for Logic in Generative Text-to-Image Models" (by Conwell, Tawiah-Quashie, & me) arxiv.org/pdf/2411.17066
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brendan o’connor @brenocon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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Details - Assistant/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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Open Mind @openmindjournal.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hello! This is the official account of Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, published by @mitpress.bsky.social. We will be automatically posting newly published articles.
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Introducing the CrossGram collection of typological databases: dlc.hypotheses.org/3690
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