Poorvi Acharya

PhD student in NLP at GMU w/ @anas_ant. Focus: L2 acquisition, psycholinguistics. Passionate about empowering heritage speakers. Berkeley '19

[Souptika Banerjee @stopstarekiss]

Borneo’s orangutans, Assam’s elephants — wildlife across the world is fighting a losing battle against bulldozers, greed, and habitat destruction.

They may fall, but their struggle will remain a painful reminder of humanity’s cruelty towards the planet.

[Poorvi Acharya @poorvi___]

@kchonyc I would be interested!

[Cui Ding @CuiDing_CL]

👀Ever wondered how visual information quality affects reading and language processing?
Our new #EMNLP2025 paper, “Modeling Bottom-up Information Quality during Language Processing”, bridges psycholinguistics and multimodal LLMs.
🧠💡👇
https://t.co/9z7nbo8UWZ

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

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[Poorvi Acharya @poorvi___]

Are there any ladies going to NAACL who I could room with? I would split the hotel cost with you! #NAACL2025

[Poorvi Acharya @poorvi___]

Co-authors: @anas_ant, @DhimanGoswami8 @marcoszampieri1

[Poorvi Acharya @poorvi___]

Won best paper at masc-sll!
#MASCSLL2025

[Poorvi Acharya @poorvi___]

@poorvi can I buy your username lol

[Linguistic Discovery @lingdiscovery]

“I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.” ~ William Labov (1927–2024) 1/5

#sociolinguistics #linguistics #dialects #accents #AAVE #BlackEnglish #NYC

[UCalgary Linguistics @UCalgaryLing]

“William Labov, known far and wide as one of the most influential linguists of the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away this morning at the age of 97 ...” https://t.co/G0SagJj8MM

[Poorvi Acharya @poorvi___]

@RingotanApp where can I find 訶? I don’t see it in JLPT, at least. Trying to learn the kanji in the 般若心経 lol

[А. Z. Fоrеmаn: Seriouѕ Рhіlоlоgy, Ѕіlly Веhаvіоr @azforeman]

The slow death of South Asian Persian makes me very sad. It is last form of Persian left where people still nasalize their vowels in reading poetry. I want it to stick around.