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14 Nov 2025
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)
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14 Nov 2025
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)
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14 Nov 2025
Summary: Prediction and structural processing have dissociable influences on reading behavior. LLMs are a good model of when our eyes move forward, but can’t explain when, where, or why humans reread. To model rereading, we need models that go beyond next-word prediction. (12/n)
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14 Nov 2025
Preprint: osf.io/eq2ra
This project was a huge undertaking with some fantastic co-authors: @byungdoh, Kuan-Jung Huang, @grushaprasad, @sArehalli, @tallinzen, and Brian Dillon.
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Will Timkey retweeted
26 Mar 2025
Rumeysa Ozturk's "crime," according to the pro-Israel group Canary Mission, was writing an op-ed that included an appeal for embracing "the equal dignity and humanity of all people."
26 Mar 2025
The horrific moment that Tufts grad student and anti-war activist Rumeysa Ozturk was detained (kidnapped) by Trump’s ICE thugs.
Somerville, MA #FreePalestine #FreeRemeysa
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26 Mar 2025
If this happened to an American student who wrote an op-ed while on Fulbright in Turkey, it would be an international incident. Congresspeople would demand the student be returned w/in the hour. Their intellectual, professional, political, & personal integrity would be defended
26 Mar 2025
The horrific moment that Tufts grad student and anti-war activist Rumeysa Ozturk was detained (kidnapped) by Trump’s ICE thugs.
Somerville, MA #FreePalestine #FreeRemeysa
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29 Nov 2024
Submissions for the 2025 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics are due Feb. 16
I humbly request your help with spreading the word
29 Nov 2024
📣 We are happy to share that CMCL 2025 will be co-located with NAACL in New Mexico!
👉The call for papers is out
cmclorg.github.io/CfP
SAVE THE DATES, and submit your work!
‼️ Paper submission deadline: Feb 16, 2025
🗓 May 3 or 4, 2025: Workshop (TBA)
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Will Timkey retweeted
13 Aug 2024
I am at #ACL2024 and will be presenting joint work with @forrestdavis at the TeachingNLP workshop. The talk is on Aug 15 11:45 am in Lotus Suite 11. I would also love to grab coffee or meals with folks to chat about computational psycholing, SLACs, or life generally.
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19 Jul 2024
New preprint!
How can we test hypotheses about learning that rely on exposure to large amounts of data?
No babies no problem: Use language models as models of learning 🎯targeted modifications 🎯 of language models’ training corpora!
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Will Timkey retweeted
17 Jun 2024
I’m presenting today at #NAACL24 on our @GoogleAI / @GoogleDeepMind paper “The Impact of Depth in Compositional Generalization in Transformer Language Models”
If you can’t make it, here’s a thread on what we found! paper, poster, slides, & video at jpetty.org/depth
14 Jun 2024
Are you coming to #NAACL24? 🇲🇽
DM if you wanna meet up, grab coffee, and/or talk about
- predicting model generalization behavior
- state tracking
- using pure math to reason about language models
- formal languages and LLMs
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5 Jun 2024
Governor Kathy Hochul (R-New Jersey)
5 Jun 2024
We’re addressing affordability and the cost of living in New York.
Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=zrTboCir…
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