Radboud University
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6525HT Nijmegen ⟡ The Netherlands
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⟡ Great news: Irene Winther will join the Language Leak project as a postdoc starting February 1st!
⟡ Naomi is, sadly, leaving our project. This means I am hiring a new postdoc! You can find more details and apply (deadline is October 1st) here
⟡ Two new preprints by Michelle Suijkerbuijk (and many others): The need for human data when analysing the human-likeness of syntactic representations in neural language models: The case of English wh-island constraints and BLiMP-NL: A corpus of Dutch minimal pairs and acceptability judgements for language model evaluation
⟡ I will present Stephan Verwijmeren's paper "Simulating event-related potentials in bilingual sentence comprehension: syntactic violations and syntactic transfer" at MathPsych/ICMM.
⟡ "Neural language model gradients predict event-related brain potentials" (preprint) was accepted for the the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
⟡ In July, I'll present the result from the SCiL paper (above), plus some new findings, at a MathPsych/ICMM symposium and in Shravan Vasishth's lab colloquium.
⟡ This preprint of "Communicative efficiency in multimodal language" with Beata Grzyb and Gabriella Vigliocco has been up for a while, but it has finally been accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
⟡ I'm looking forward to a brief visit to INRIA Bordeaux late April, where I'll take part in a PhD defense and give a talk.
⟡ New preprint: Neural language model gradients predict event-related brain potentials.
⟡ Naomi Shapiro joined the Language Leak project as a postdoc. Welcome!
⟡ Here's a new preprint by Yung Han Khoe about The Bilingual Dual-path model: Simulating bilingual production, comprehension, and development
⟡ We're organizing a one-day workshop on Using computational models to bridge between neurobiology, psychology, and linguistic theory.
The program can be found here.⟡ I quit Twitter for ever! You can find me on @stefanfrank.bsky.social and @stefanfrank@scholar.social
⟡ Our paper "An eye-tracking-with-EEG coregistration corpus of narrative sentences" (with Anna Aumeistere) was accepted for publication in Language Resources and Evaluation
⟡ Michelle Suijkerbuijk's paper about wh-island constraints in LSTMs is accepted for a poster at the SCiL conference.
⟡ Two conference talks about modelling N400/P600 effects in L2 comprehension: Stephan Verwijmeren will present this work at ICCM, and I will give a talk about it at AMLaP.
⟡ I will give an online talk about the Bilingual Dual-Path model at the International Symposium of Bilingualsm in June, and Stephan Verwijmeren will present an online poster about his model of N400/P600 effects in L2 comprehension.
⟡ Kars Ligtenberg started as a PhD student in my NWO-funded project The statistics of language as a novel window into the multilingual mind
⟡ We have a postdoc vacancy to work on models of bilingual sentence processing, application deadline is March 19.
⟡ I started this News section!