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Titus von der Malsburg

@tmalsburg.bsky.social

Jun.-Prof. in Linguistics at University of Stuttgart. I study how we understand language one word at a time. More active on my Mastodon account, bridged here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mjlcw5eps5sdsiblnm5lytmu

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Dario Paape@dariopaape.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

New preprint: NPI and depth charge illusions in Pythia LLMs of different sizes and at different training checkpoints. NPI illusion goes away but depth charge illusion stays or even gets stronger. Amazingly for me, I come out in favor of... construction grammar? arxiv.org/abs/2603.27855

What can LLMs tell us about the mechanisms behind polarity illusions in humans? Experiments across model scales and training steps

I use the Pythia scaling suite (Biderman et al. 2023) to investigate if and how two well-known polarity illusions, the NPI illusion and the depth charge illusion, arise in LLMs. The NPI illusion becom...

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Is there some open source spreadsheet that enforces and supports all these recommendations? I'd love to read in a methods section: "We entered and managed all data using OpenSheet with Broman-Woo guardrails."

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.
Titus von der Malsburg@tmalsburg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New preprint with Sebastian Padó: Transformers do not reliably explain human morphosyntactic processing. Testing 11 models on agreement attraction shows they match human data for prepositional modifiers but fail on object-extracted relative clauses. arxiv.org/abs/2603.16574

Diverging Transformer Predictions for Human Sentence Processing: A Comprehensive Analysis of Agreement Attraction Effects

Transformers underlie almost all state-of-the-art language models in computational linguistics, yet their cognitive adequacy as models of human sentence processing remains disputed. In this work, we u...

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MinnaLuft@minnaluft.eurosky.social · 6mo ago

Sie war zuletzt eine der lautesten Kritikerinnen des deutschen Wissenschaftssystems. Jetzt gab Amrei Bahr, seit 2021 als Mitinitiatorin der Kampagne #IchbinHanna bekannt, die wissenschaftliche Forschung selbst aufzugeben. Via @amreibahr.bsky.social

#IchbinHanna-Gründerin schmeißt hin: Amrei Bahr wurde Juniorprofessorin – und verlässt die Wissenschaft

Mit ihrem Einsatz für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen an Unis wurde Amrei Bahr bekannt und löste eine Bewegung aus, die das Wissenschaftssystem ändern will. Jetzt gab die Juniorprofessorin ihren Ausstieg a...

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Titus von der Malsburg@tmalsburg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Can we please stop holding important conference in the US?One of my students is affected by the full travel ban and for others it just doesn't seem sufficiently safe. I love my US colleagues and would have enjoyed attending HSP and ACL/CoNNL but it's simply not an option at this point.

Titus von der Malsburg@tmalsburg.bsky.social · last yr.

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 🙏

Titus von der Malsburg@tmalsburg.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper! We show that eye movements during normal reading (no extra task) are effective at predicting reading comprehension as measured by recall. Both early and late eye-movement measures are key. This research was led by the amazing Diane Mézière. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

Recent research on the use of eye movements to predict performance on reading comprehension tasks suggests that while eye movements may be used to measure comprehension, the relationship between eye-...

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Titus von der Malsburg@tmalsburg.bsky.social · last yr.

Hard-earned writing tip: If your paper’s General Discussion is tough to write, it’s often because the Introduction isn’t setting the stage well. Don’t waste your time trying to fix the discussion, work on the intro until the discussion practically writes itself.

Titus von der Malsburg@tmalsburg.bsky.social · last yr.

Diane Mézière's article "Using eye-tracking measures to predict reading comprehension" is among the top-10 most-cited in Reading Research Quarterly. Congratulations Diane! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

This study examined the potential of eye-tracking as a tool for assessing reading comprehension. We administered three widely used reading comprehension tests with varying task demands to 79 typical ....

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Titus von der Malsburg@tmalsburg.bsky.social · last yr.

A couple of new features in my tool for surprisal experiments with transformer models: 1. Interactive mode for quick ad-hoc experiments. 2. Uses GPU if available. 3. More models supported out of the box 4. Much easier to install and use thanks to uv. github.com/tmalsburg/ll...

GitHub - tmalsburg/llm_surprisal: Simple tool for generating tokens with open source transformers and/or calculate per-token surprisal.

Simple tool for generating tokens with open source transformers and/or calculate per-token surprisal. - tmalsburg/llm_surprisal

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