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arXiv cs.CL Computation and Language@cscl-bot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Andr\'es Bux\'o-Lugo, Aniello De Santo, Morgan Grobol, Ryan J. Hubbard, Cassandra L. Jacobs: surprisal is Not a Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20208 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20208 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20208

Congratulations! We'll miss you Özge but this project sounds super exciting!

Özge Bakay@ozgebakay.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'll be joining @jonrbrennan.bsky.social's lab at the University of Michigan as a Postdoctoral Fellow in October! 🎉 We'll work on an NSF-funded project on computational modeling of EEG data. Thanks to all my collaborators, especially my advisors, Dr. @linguistbrian.bsky.social and Dr. Faruk Akkuş!

Congratulations to Weijie for this excellent work! 🎉

Weijie Xu@weijiexu.bsky.social · 4w ago

What's the relationship between memory constraints and the content/format of encoded information in sentence processing? Our recent work (w/ @futrell.bsky.social and @linguistbrian.bsky.social) targeting this question has won the best paper award at #ACL2026 aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...

I'll be joining @jonrbrennan.bsky.social's lab at the University of Michigan as a Postdoctoral Fellow in October! 🎉 We'll work on an NSF-funded project on computational modeling of EEG data. Thanks to all my collaborators, especially my advisors, Dr. @linguistbrian.bsky.social and Dr. Faruk Akkuş!

In other news, the proofs are up for my new paper, with a dream team of Subhs Shrestha, @linguistbrian.bsky.social, Diogo Almeida, Alec Marantz, and Rajesh Bhatt! direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...

Same Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses?: An MEG Study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative Structures

Abstract. At first glance, the brain’s language network appears to be universal, but languages clearly differ. Does the brain adapt to the specific details of individual grammatical systems? Here, we ...

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The Marica De Vincenzi Foundation is inviting applications for its post-doctoral fellowship! The fellowship offers up to 2 years of post-doctoral support abroad for Italian psycholinguists. Spread the word! Deadline is 3/10 - see info here: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Really big announcement! See @wtimkey.bsky.social's thread for the details on an exciting new preprint from the NYU-UMass Syntactic Ambiguity Processing group. It is the culmination of the team's research efforts over these last couple of years, and we're really happy with it.

William Timkey@wtimkey.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New Preprint: osf.io/eq2ra 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)

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

A proposed new rule would limit international students on F1 or J1 visas to stays in the US of no longer than 4 years. This effectively means that intl. students will no longer come to graduate school here (time to PhD is 5-6 years). You can comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

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Check out Özge's preprint! Anaphors like reflexives have been studied a TON. Why? They're a useful model system for studying how linguistic information is organized in WM, because they appear to be subject to relational syntactic constraints on their interpretation. In her research...

Özge Bakay@ozgebakay.bsky.social · 11mo ago

✨New preprint out! With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval. 👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal 👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors osf.io/preprints/ps...

3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration. tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...

Check this out! Happy to talk to folks about Valley living, feel free to DM.

Mara Breen@mbreen.bsky.social · last yr.

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Fully-funded PhD position in experimental and/or computational psycholinguistics: tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_... Application deadline is August 15.

Bumping this call for folks interested in work at the AI-psycholing interface!

Tal Linzen@tallinzen.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Congratulations are in order for @tallinzen.bsky.social as well! We’re excited and humbled, and grateful that we get to continue collaborating with a wonderful group of students and scholars. The support of the NSF goes a long way in supporting the next generation of scientists.

Tal Linzen@tallinzen.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to @linguistbrian.bsky.social for receiving this grant to study how to constrain language models to read complex sentences more like humans, and congratulations to me for getting to collaborate with him for another four years! www.umass.edu/humanities-a...

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Excited to share the new OECS article on 'Sentence Processing' written by Matt Wagers and myself! It's humbling to be included in the OECS, we hope you enjoy :) oecs.mit.edu/pub/mn7mjhx9...

Sentence Processing

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Congratulations to Dr. Nigel Flower @nigelflower.bsky.social for the successful defense of his dissertation “Combinatorics at-a-glance: On the spatiotemporal dynamics of temporally unstructured language”!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

A bit late but since I really like this paper, a bit of self-advertising! I am presenting at CMCL today work showing that metrics measuring how a Minimalist Grammar parser modulates memory usage can help us model Self-paced reading data for SRC/ORC contrasts: aclanthology.org/2025.cmcl-1.5/

Capturing Online SRC/ORC Effort with Memory Measures from a Minimalist Parser

Aniello De Santo. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics. 2025.

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My turn for an #HSP2025 thread, since I will be traveling soon! I'll be there with two posters, and I so am excited to see all my favorite psycholinguists (aside from the great science XD)! 🐦🐦🐦

a plea to think carefully about surprisal + what it means to understand how we understand >> link.springer.com/article/10.1... brand new paper in Computational Brain and Behaviour with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social at @mpi-nl.bsky.social

What’s Surprising About Surprisal - Computational Brain & Behavior

In the computational and experimental psycholinguistic literature, the mechanisms behind syntactic structure building (e.g., combining words into phrases and sentences) are the subject of considerable...

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Happy to share that Liz Schotter and I have just published a beginner-level tutorial introduction to eye-tracking-while-reading studies in Behavior Methods: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

There are now two weeks to finish your SCiL 2025 submission! Especially excited to see work submitted to the Special Symposium on Computational Pragmatics!

Society for Computation in Linguistics@scilconference.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are extending the SCiL 2025 deadline by one week! Submissions are now due on Friday, Jan. 31st.

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association AFLA 31 abstract submission deadline extension to Feb 2! Special session on prosodic and psycholinguistic connections in verb-initial languages (not just Austronesian). Join us in June at UMass Amherst! blogs.umass.edu/afla31/

We are now accepting submissions for HSP2024 at UMich! Deadline: Jan 8th. See the CfP for details.

Alrighty I’m finally setting up shop here! Nice to see lots of familiar faces from the other place 😅😅