Forrest Davis

Assistant Professor of Computer Science researching computational (psycho)linguistics @ Colgate (he/him)

[Sanghee J. Kim @Sanghee__Kim]

New study on LMs and discourse sensitivity! We evaluate 25 LMs on their ability to prioritize discourse-relevant info, and find that (1) smaller & dialogue-trained models align closer to human patterns, while (2) larger/instruction models overuse structural or discourse cues.

[Elias Stengel-Eskin @EliasEskin]

🚨 I am on the faculty job market this year 🚨
I will be presenting at #NeurIPS2024 and am happy to chat in-person or digitally!

I work on developing AI agents that can collaborate and communicate robustly with us and each other.
My work covers 3 key problems👇

1⃣ Multi-agent + pragmatic interaction and communication
2⃣ Grounding (multimodal inputs, actions)
3⃣ Handling uncertainty, underspecification, and ambiguity

I’m currently a postdoc with @mohitban47 at @uncnlp and did my Ph.D. with @ben_vandurme at @jhuclsp. If you think I would be a good fit for your department, please reach out:
https://t.co/Ij4QdOVs8D

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[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@grushaprasad @tallinzen But what about chat gpt Grusha

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@mkgotowski

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@focusfronting @DisabilityStor1 Another day another bout of imposter syndrome treated.

[Sanghee J. Kim @Sanghee__Kim]

Work with @UChicagoLangLab on processing appositive (ARCs) vs. restrictive relative clauses (RRCs) is out: https://t.co/QwvsK3XmOG ARCs typically contain side-commentary info; does a distractor in an ARC lead to an absence of agreement attraction effect? (1/8)

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@grushaprasad @colgateuniv Right name wrong referent. Classic mixup

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@grushaprasad @colgateuniv Just adding im @Forrest_L_Davis

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@MH_Christiansen @CSL_Lab @pcontrerask Is there a link to the talk or to a paper/abstract? There’s work on agreement errors in English models (partially) overlapping with humans without RLHF or “feedback”. Is the argument they align more closely after fine tuning ?

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@amuuueller @BU_Tweets @BUCompSci Congratulations!!

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@YuhanZhang_ @LanguageMIT @TeaAnd_OrCoffee @roger_p_levy Congratulations!!!

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@maria_antoniak @CUBoulder Congratulations!!!

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

So thrilled to announce I got fifty (50) papers accepted to #ACL2024 like and subscribe below.

Actually 0 for 1 🎉

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@isabelpapad @UBCLinguistics @KempnerInst Congratulations!!! Very exciting !

[Sidharth Ranjan @sidharth_ranjan]

Would like to disseminate our new paper at #CogSci2024 with Titus von der Malsburg (@tmalsburg) titled "Work Smarter...Not Harder: Efficient Minimization of Dependency Length in SOV Languages". @cogsci_soc

Link: https://t.co/Z1AeAIdGx5

A quick walk-through: 🧵 (1/n)

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

Thank you to those who volunteered ! I think I have the reviewers needed. Glad to be part of such a great research community !

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

I'm hoping to find emergency reviewers for the upcoming CogSci conference. If you work in the intersection of NLP/AI and cognitive science and can review a paper by Friday March 15th. Please reach out to me.

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@LaboratoryMinds Great! Thank you so much!

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

@weGotlieb @Georgetown @GU_Linguistics Congratulations!!

[Forrest Davis @Forrest_L_Davis]

I'm at LSA. Always interested in making new friends and catching up with old ones. Happy to chat about the intersection of linguistics and NLP and/or cats. Also, presenting work on adjective acquisition and language models with @mkgotowski on Jan 6! #LSA2024