Proceedings

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Schedule

Keynote Talks

Malihe Alikhani (Northeastern University)

Theory of Mind in Generative Models: From Uncertainty to Shared Meaning

Junyi Jessy Li (UT Austin)

Discourse Models with Questions Under Discussion

Talk Recording

Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh)

Why am I Saying This? Sensible and Informative Contributions to Discourse

Talk Recording

Daniel Fried (Carnegie Mellon University)

Improving NLP Systems via Speaker Listener Games

Talk Recording

Virtual Poster Session 1

Daniel Hardt. Sparks of Pure Competence in LLMs: the Case of Syntactic Center Embedding in English

Brandon Prickett. Explaining differences between phonotactic learning biases in the lab and typological trends using Probabilistic Feature Attention

Kanishka Jain, Ashwini Vaidya. Investigating the Probability of External Causation in Hindi Light Verb Constructions

Anil Korde, Philip Resnik. On the Dangers of Naïve Replication: The Case of Implicature

Nathaniel Imel, Christopher Haberland, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld. The Unnatural Language ToolKit (ULTK)

Giorgio Magri. A principled derivation of OT and HG within constraint-based phonology

Virtual Poster Session 2

Lauren Levine. A Cross-Genre Analysis of Discourse Relation Signaling in the GUM Corpus

Gregory M Kobele, Lei Liu. Formalizing Feature Inheritance

Kayla Shames. Designing a Digital Keyboard for Itunyoso Triqui

Nitin Venkateswaran, Rachel Meyer, Ratree Wayland. Measuring the Impact of Segmental Deviation on Perceptions of Accentedness using Gradient Phonological Class Features

Richard Futrell. Language Learning as Codebreaking: The Key Roles of Redundancy and Locality

Coleman Haley, Sharon Goldwater, Edoardo Ponti. Visual groundedness as an organizing principle for word class: Evidence from Japanese

Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano, David Eric Austin, Pablo Piantanida, Jackie CK Cheung. (RSA)^2: A Rhetorical-Strategy-Aware Rational Speech Act Framework for Figurative Language Understanding

In-Person Poster Session 1

Nina Haket, Ryan Daniels. BERT's Conceptual Cartography: Mapping the Landscapes of Meaning

Michael Kamerath, Aniello De Santo. Do LLMs Disambiguate Italian Relative Clause Attachment?

Josephine Kaminaga, Jennie Wu, Daniel Yeung, Simon Todd. Aligning Embedding Spaces Across Languages to Identify Word Level Equivalents in the Context of Concreteness and Emotion

Jonathan B. Sakunkoo, Annabella Sakunkoo. Mind the Gap: Computational Quality Assurance of Crowd-Sourced Linguistic Knowledge on Latin and Italian Morphological Gaps

Iona Carslaw, Sivan Milton, Nicolas Navarre, Ciyang Qing, Wataru Uegaki. Automatic Extraction of Clausal Embedding Based on Large-Scale English Text Data

Jane Li, Alan Zhou. CNNs that robustly compute vowel harmony do not explicitly represent phonological tiers

Jwalanthi Ranganathan, Rohan Jha, Kanishka Misra, Kyle Mahowald. semantic-features: A User-Friendly Tool for Studying Contextual Word Embeddings in Interpretable Semantic Spaces

Mary Kennedy. Evidence of Hierarchically-Complex Syntactic Structure Within BERT's Word Representations

In-Person Poster Session 2

Thomas Graf, Kenneth Hanson. Syntax with strings attached

Gustavo Cilleruelo Calderón, Emily Allaway, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch. Generics are puzzling. Can language models find the missing piece?

Xiaomeng Zhu, Zhenghao Zhou, Simon Charlow, Robert Frank. Do LLMs Understand Anaphoric Accessibility?

Dingyi Pan, Andrew Kehler. Pragmatic Competence in LLMs: The Case of Eliciture

Vincent Czarnecki. The Logic of Linearization: Interpretations of Trees via Strings

Andrew Liu, Gerald Penn. Similarity, Transformation and the Newly Found Invariance of Influence Functions

Laurestine Bradford. Aspectual classes as lexically-conditioned predictors of aspectual choice