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...

Memory efficiency and resource-rational encoding in sentence processing

Weijie Xu, Brian Dillon, Richard Futrell. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2026.

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[SRA 2.0] Glad to share that my new paper (with @futrell.bsky.social) titled "Strategic resource allocation in memory encoding: An efficiency principle shaping language processing" is now on Journal of Memory and Language: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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