Will Timkey

(first gen!) PhD student @nyuling studying computational psycholinguistics. I also like trains and cities and every kind of football.
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[Will Timkey @wtimkey8]

New Preprint: https://t.co/XYmoMDuEPL

Reading feels effortless, but it's actually quite complex under the hood. Most words are easy to process, but some words make us reread or linger. It turns out that LLMs can tell us about why, but only in certain cases... (1/n)

[Will Timkey @wtimkey8]

Preprint: https://t.co/XYmoMDu70d
This project was a huge undertaking with some fantastic co-authors: @byungdoh, Kuan-Jung Huang, @grushaprasad, @sArehalli, @tallinzen, and Brian Dillon.
(13/13)

[Will Timkey @wtimkey8]

New Preprint: https://t.co/XYmoMDuEPL

Reading feels effortless, but it's actually quite complex under the hood. Most words are easy to process, but some words make us reread or linger. It turns out that LLMs can tell us about why, but only in certain cases... (1/n)

[Will Timkey @wtimkey8]

Summary: Prediction and structural processing have dissociable influences on reading behavior. LLMs are a good model of when our eyes move forward, but can’t explain when, where, or why humans reread. To model rereading, we need models that go beyond next-word prediction. (12/n)

[hannah gais @hannahgais]

Rumeysa Ozturk's "crime," according to the pro-Israel group Canary Mission, was writing an op-ed that included an appeal for embracing "the equal dignity and humanity of all people."

[Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction]

If this happened to an American student who wrote an op-ed while on Fulbright in Turkey, it would be an international incident. Congresspeople would demand the student be returned w/in the hour. Their intellectual, professional, political, & personal integrity would be defended

[Byung-Doh Oh @byungdoh]

Submissions for the 2025 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics are due Feb. 16

I humbly request your help with spreading the word

[Grusha Prasad @grushaprasad]

I am at #ACL2024 and will be presenting joint work with @forrestdavis at the TeachingNLP workshop. The talk is on Aug 15 11:45 am in Lotus Suite 11. I would also love to grab coffee or meals with folks to chat about computational psycholing, SLACs, or life generally.

[Cara Leong @craaaa]

New preprint!
How can we test hypotheses about learning that rely on exposure to large amounts of data?

No babies no problem: Use language models as models of learning + 🎯targeted modifications 🎯 of language models’ training corpora!

[Will Timkey @wtimkey8]

@jowenpetty ah the torii stage of the project