Submissions for the 2025 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics are due Feb. 16
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👶NEW PAPER🪇
Children are better at learning a second language (L2) than adults. In a new paper (led by the awesome Ionut Constantinescu) we ask:
1. "Do LMs also have a 'Critical Period' (CP) for language acquisition?" and
2. "What can LMs tell us about the CP in humans?"
tinlab at Boston University (with a new logo! 🪄) is recruiting PhD students for F25 and/or a postdoc! Our interests include meaning, generalization, evaluation design, and the nature of computation/representation underlying language and cognition, in both humans and machines. ⬇️
🧐🔡🤖 Can LMs/NNs inform CogSci? This question has been (re)visited by many people across decades.
@najoungkim and I contribute to this debate by using NN-based LMs to generate novel experimental hypotheses which can then be tested with humans!
Cara is presenting her paper today (poster P1-E-27), asking whether LLMs can simulate expertise effects just by telling the system "you are an expert in birds" or "an expert in dogs". Check it out! https://t.co/HXpyH93xhs #CogSci2024
What is cause and effect? What is a “mechanism”? And how do answers to these questions affect interpretability research?
📜 New preprint! 📜 Two key challenges for causal/mechanistic interpretability, and ways forward. To be presented at the mech interp workshop at #ICML2024: