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Now out as a squib in Computational Linguistics:
doi.org/10.1162/coli...

28.02.2025 07:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Kallini et al. (2024) do not compare impossible languages with constituency-based ones - lingbuzz/008501 A central goal of linguistic theory is to find a precise characterization of the notion "possible human language", in the form of a computational device that is capable of describing all and only the ...

I have apparently, somewhat against my will, become one of those people who participates in arguments about "large language models".
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008...

16.10.2024 14:59 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1

Full LoT BBS article is finally out! Worth it if just for the commentaries/criticisms/extensions from @benedek.bsky.social @levelsof.bsky.social @romanfeiman.bsky.social @chazfirestone.bsky.social, Sue Carey, Dave Chalmers, Fei Xu, Ned Block, and so many other super interesting critics.

28.09.2023 13:21 — 👍 31 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 3

@timhunter is following 20 prominent accounts

Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦
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Grumpy old American mathematician and computer scientist, now retired. My Erdös number equals 1.

Morgan Sonderegger
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Linguistics, statistics, speech, cognitive science | McGill University Department of Linguistics

Quanta Magazine
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Illuminating math and science. Supported by the Simons Foundation. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. www.quantamagazine.org

Anton Hampe
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Linguistics PhD student at Stony Brook

Miloš Stanojević
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Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind • Lecturer @LinguisticsUCL • http://stanojevic.github.io

Guy Van den Broeck
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🎓 CS Prof at UCLA 🧠 Researching reasoning and learning in artificial intelligence: tactable deep generative models, probabilistic circuits, probabilistic programming, neurosymbolic AI https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~guyvdb/

Noah Goodman
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Professor of Natural and Artificial Intelligence @Stanford. Safety and alignment @GoogleDeepMind.

Brian Dillon
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Psycholinguist at UMass Amherst Linguistics. people.umass.edu/bwdillon

Jakub Szymanik
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I am a principal investigator at the Center for Mind/Brain, CiMeC, at the University of Trento, where I research language and cognition in humans and machines.

Sarah Brogden Payne
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linguistics PhD student @ Stony Brook | acquisition, comp ling, {morph, phon}ology | they/she 🌈

Pluralia tantrum
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Jon Brennan
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Linguistics and cognitive science nerd; faculty at the University of Michigan; author of "Language and the Brain"

Glossa Psycholinguistics
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Cognitive Science Society
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Judith Degen
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Cognitive scientist. Into meaning and psycholinguistics. Asst Prof of Linguistics at Stanford. Lab website: https://alpslab.stanford.edu/

Heidi Harley
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linguistiks knitting kids kats ceramiks and everything with /k/ or 'k', I just decided she/her

Sebastian Schuster
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Computational semantics and pragmatics, interpretability and occasionally some psycholinguistics. he/him. 🦝 https://sebschu.com

Semantics and Linguistic Theory
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The premier North American conference on semantics as a part of linguistic theory. https://saltconf.github.io/

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Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/