Computational Linguistics @UPF
@colt-upf.bsky.social
Gemma Boleda, Marco Baroni, Thomas Brochhagen, Iria de Dios Flores | Computational Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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Barcelona
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Barcelona
Do you use a pronoun more often when the entity you’re talking about is more predictable?
Previous work offers diverging answers so we conducted a meta-analysis, combining data from 20 studies across 8 different languages.
Now out in Language: muse.jhu.edu/article/969615
Previous work offers diverging answers so we conducted a meta-analysis, combining data from 20 studies across 8 different languages.
Now out in Language: muse.jhu.edu/article/969615
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Do you use a pronoun more often when the entity you’re talking about is more predictable?
Previous work offers diverging answers so we conducted a meta-analysis, combining data from 20 studies across 8 different languages.
Now out in Language: muse.jhu.edu/article/969615
Previous work offers diverging answers so we conducted a meta-analysis, combining data from 20 studies across 8 different languages.
Now out in Language: muse.jhu.edu/article/969615
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📢 Seminari de recerca organitzat pel COLT- URLING, "LLM and human language: representations, judgments, and historical change".
📆 29/09/2025
🕦 15:30
🎤 Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
🚩55.410, Edifici Tànger del Campus Poblenou - UPF
ℹ️ ja.cat/wi2t7
@colt-upf.bsky.social
📆 29/09/2025
🕦 15:30
🎤 Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
🚩55.410, Edifici Tànger del Campus Poblenou - UPF
ℹ️ ja.cat/wi2t7
@colt-upf.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📢 Seminari de recerca organitzat pel COLT- URLING, "LLM and human language: representations, judgments, and historical change".
📆 29/09/2025
🕦 15:30
🎤 Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
🚩55.410, Edifici Tànger del Campus Poblenou - UPF
ℹ️ ja.cat/wi2t7
@colt-upf.bsky.social
📆 29/09/2025
🕦 15:30
🎤 Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
🚩55.410, Edifici Tànger del Campus Poblenou - UPF
ℹ️ ja.cat/wi2t7
@colt-upf.bsky.social
Reposted by Computational Linguistics @UPF
📢 Seminari de recerca organitzat pel COLT- URLING, "Associative memory in psycholinguistics and in AI architectures".
📆 01/10/2025
🕦 12:00
🎤 Jakub Dotlačil
🚩55.410, Edifici Tànger del Campus Poblenou - UPF
ℹ️ ja.cat/U5xH2
@colt-upf.bsky.social
📆 01/10/2025
🕦 12:00
🎤 Jakub Dotlačil
🚩55.410, Edifici Tànger del Campus Poblenou - UPF
ℹ️ ja.cat/U5xH2
@colt-upf.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
📢 Seminari de recerca organitzat pel COLT- URLING, "Associative memory in psycholinguistics and in AI architectures".
📆 01/10/2025
🕦 12:00
🎤 Jakub Dotlačil
🚩55.410, Edifici Tànger del Campus Poblenou - UPF
ℹ️ ja.cat/U5xH2
@colt-upf.bsky.social
📆 01/10/2025
🕦 12:00
🎤 Jakub Dotlačil
🚩55.410, Edifici Tànger del Campus Poblenou - UPF
ℹ️ ja.cat/U5xH2
@colt-upf.bsky.social
Reposted by Computational Linguistics @UPF
New paper! 🚨 I argue that LLMs represent a synthesis between distributed and symbolic approaches to language, because, when exposed to language, they develop highly symbolic representations and processing mechanisms in addition to distributed ones.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.11856
arxiv.org/abs/2502.11856
September 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
New paper! 🚨 I argue that LLMs represent a synthesis between distributed and symbolic approaches to language, because, when exposed to language, they develop highly symbolic representations and processing mechanisms in addition to distributed ones.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.11856
arxiv.org/abs/2502.11856
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📢I am hiring a Postdoc to work on post-training methods for low-resource languages. Apply by August 15 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho....
Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.
Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.
Postdoc in Natural Language Processing
employment.ku.dk
July 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
📢I am hiring a Postdoc to work on post-training methods for low-resource languages. Apply by August 15 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho....
Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.
Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.
Reposted by Computational Linguistics @UPF
Evaluating topic models (and document clustering methods) is hard. In fact, since our paper critiquing standard evaluation practices four years ago, there hasn't been a good replacement metric
That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵
That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵
July 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Evaluating topic models (and document clustering methods) is hard. In fact, since our paper critiquing standard evaluation practices four years ago, there hasn't been a good replacement metric
That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵
That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵
🎉New paper "Prediction Hubs are Context-Informed Frequent Tokens in LLMs" from our lab, accepted at ACL 2025!
If you're interested in representational geometry, come find Beatrix Nielsen and Marco Baroni at the poster :)
If you're interested in representational geometry, come find Beatrix Nielsen and Marco Baroni at the poster :)
Our paper "Prediction Hubs are Context-Informed Frequent Tokens in LLMs" has been accepted at ACL 2025!
Main points:
1. Hubness is not a problem when language models do next-token prediction.
2. Nuisance hubness can appear when other comparisons are made.
Main points:
1. Hubness is not a problem when language models do next-token prediction.
2. Nuisance hubness can appear when other comparisons are made.
July 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🎉New paper "Prediction Hubs are Context-Informed Frequent Tokens in LLMs" from our lab, accepted at ACL 2025!
If you're interested in representational geometry, come find Beatrix Nielsen and Marco Baroni at the poster :)
If you're interested in representational geometry, come find Beatrix Nielsen and Marco Baroni at the poster :)
Today at UPF Campus de la Ciutadella at 2:30 pm! Come slightly earlier to check in!
Sala Polivalent 24S18
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Sala Polivalent 24S18
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⭐ Registration open til May 27th! ⭐
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
Announcing the COLT Symposium on June 2nd!
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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June 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Today at UPF Campus de la Ciutadella at 2:30 pm! Come slightly earlier to check in!
Sala Polivalent 24S18
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Sala Polivalent 24S18
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📢 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲📢
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
**Sala Polivalent 24.S18**
Thank you for bearing with us!
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
**Sala Polivalent 24.S18**
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Last day to sign up for the COLT Symposium!
Register: tinyurl.com/colt-register
📢 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲📢
June 2nd, 14:30 - 19:00
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
Room 40.101
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Register: tinyurl.com/colt-register
📢 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲📢
June 2nd, 14:30 - 19:00
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
Room 40.101
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⭐ Registration open til May 27th! ⭐
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
May 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📢 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲📢
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
**Sala Polivalent 24.S18**
Thank you for bearing with us!
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
**Sala Polivalent 24.S18**
Thank you for bearing with us!
Last day to sign up for the COLT Symposium!
Register: tinyurl.com/colt-register
📢 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲📢
June 2nd, 14:30 - 19:00
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
Room 40.101
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Register: tinyurl.com/colt-register
📢 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲📢
June 2nd, 14:30 - 19:00
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
Room 40.101
maps.app.goo.gl/1216LJRsWmTE...
⭐ Registration open til May 27th! ⭐
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
Announcing the COLT Symposium on June 2nd!
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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May 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Last day to sign up for the COLT Symposium!
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📢 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲📢
June 2nd, 14:30 - 19:00
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
Room 40.101
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Register: tinyurl.com/colt-register
📢 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲📢
June 2nd, 14:30 - 19:00
UPF Campus de la Ciutadella
Room 40.101
maps.app.goo.gl/1216LJRsWmTE...
⭐ Registration open til May 27th! ⭐
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
Announcing the COLT Symposium on June 2nd!
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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May 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
⭐ Registration open til May 27th! ⭐
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
Website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
June 2nd, UPF
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗽:
Arianna Bisazza (language acquisition with NNs)
Naomi Saphra (emergence in LLM training dynamics)
Jean-Rémi King (TBD)
Louise McNally (pitfalls of contextual/formal accounts of semantics)
Updated website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
Announcing the COLT Symposium on June 2nd!
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
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May 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Updated website: www.upf.edu/web/colt/sym...
Announcing the COLT Symposium on June 2nd!
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Announcing the COLT Symposium on June 2nd!
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
What properties of language are emerging from work in experimental and theoretical linguistics, neuroscience & LLM interpretability?
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Please find us at #ICLR2025! We will present our work on intrinsic dimension as a cue for stages of language processing in LLMs.
Saturday morning, Poster session 5
Hall 3 + Hall2B #563
iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2405.15471
Saturday morning, Poster session 5
Hall 3 + Hall2B #563
iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2405.15471
April 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Please find us at #ICLR2025! We will present our work on intrinsic dimension as a cue for stages of language processing in LLMs.
Saturday morning, Poster session 5
Hall 3 + Hall2B #563
iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2405.15471
Saturday morning, Poster session 5
Hall 3 + Hall2B #563
iclr.cc/virtual/2025...
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2405.15471
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📢 Upcoming Seminar
Words are weird? On the role of lexical ambiguity in language
🗣 Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Why is language so ambiguous? Discover how ambiguity balances cognitive simplicity and communicative complexity through large-scale studies.
📍 UniMiB, Room U6-01C, Milan
Words are weird? On the role of lexical ambiguity in language
🗣 Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Why is language so ambiguous? Discover how ambiguity balances cognitive simplicity and communicative complexity through large-scale studies.
📍 UniMiB, Room U6-01C, Milan
March 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
📢 Upcoming Seminar
Words are weird? On the role of lexical ambiguity in language
🗣 Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Why is language so ambiguous? Discover how ambiguity balances cognitive simplicity and communicative complexity through large-scale studies.
📍 UniMiB, Room U6-01C, Milan
Words are weird? On the role of lexical ambiguity in language
🗣 Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Why is language so ambiguous? Discover how ambiguity balances cognitive simplicity and communicative complexity through large-scale studies.
📍 UniMiB, Room U6-01C, Milan
⚡New position paper from Gemma Boleda: is it time to make peace between symbolic and continuous approaches to language?
new pre-print: LLMs as a synthesis between symbolic and continuous approaches to language arxiv.org/abs/2502.11856
LLMs as a synthesis between symbolic and continuous approaches to language
Since the middle of the 20th century, a fierce battle is being fought between symbolic and continuous approaches to language and cognition. The success of deep learning models, and LLMs in particular,...
arxiv.org
February 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
⚡New position paper from Gemma Boleda: is it time to make peace between symbolic and continuous approaches to language?
Reposted by Computational Linguistics @UPF
The project I did with Marco Baroni and Iuri Macocco while I was in Barcelona is now on Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.10201 🎉
TLDR below 👇
TLDR below 👇
Prediction hubs are context-informed frequent tokens in LLMs
Hubness, the tendency for few points to be among the nearest neighbours of a disproportionate number of other points, commonly arises when applying standard distance measures to high-dimensional data,...
arxiv.org
February 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The project I did with Marco Baroni and Iuri Macocco while I was in Barcelona is now on Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.10201 🎉
TLDR below 👇
TLDR below 👇
Reposted by Computational Linguistics @UPF
This year, CoNLL will be accepting *non-archival* (as well as archival) submissions! www.conll.org #CoNLL2025
Follow CoNLL at
@conll-conf.bsky.social
Follow CoNLL at
@conll-conf.bsky.social
CoNLL 2025 | CoNLL
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February 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This year, CoNLL will be accepting *non-archival* (as well as archival) submissions! www.conll.org #CoNLL2025
Follow CoNLL at
@conll-conf.bsky.social
Follow CoNLL at
@conll-conf.bsky.social
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Here's our work accepted to #ICLR2025!
We look at how intrinsic dimension evolves over LLM layers, spotting a universal high-dimensional phase.
This ID peak is where:
- linguistic features are built
- different LLMs are most similar,
with implications for task transfer
🧵 1/6
We look at how intrinsic dimension evolves over LLM layers, spotting a universal high-dimensional phase.
This ID peak is where:
- linguistic features are built
- different LLMs are most similar,
with implications for task transfer
🧵 1/6
February 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Here's our work accepted to #ICLR2025!
We look at how intrinsic dimension evolves over LLM layers, spotting a universal high-dimensional phase.
This ID peak is where:
- linguistic features are built
- different LLMs are most similar,
with implications for task transfer
🧵 1/6
We look at how intrinsic dimension evolves over LLM layers, spotting a universal high-dimensional phase.
This ID peak is where:
- linguistic features are built
- different LLMs are most similar,
with implications for task transfer
🧵 1/6
Reposted by Computational Linguistics @UPF
Què és l’aprenentatge profund ?
La @marionamec.bsky.social de @neurofregides.bsky.social ens ho explica en motiu del Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2024 (@dlbcn.ai), aquest dijous 19 de desembre.
#deeplearning #ciencia #català #barcelona
www.youtube.com/shorts/R4u_Z...
La @marionamec.bsky.social de @neurofregides.bsky.social ens ho explica en motiu del Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2024 (@dlbcn.ai), aquest dijous 19 de desembre.
#deeplearning #ciencia #català #barcelona
www.youtube.com/shorts/R4u_Z...
Què és l'aprenentatge profund ? - La Dimoni de Maxwell #deeplearning #ciencia #català #barcelona
YouTube video by Deep Learning Barcelona
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December 16, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Què és l’aprenentatge profund ?
La @marionamec.bsky.social de @neurofregides.bsky.social ens ho explica en motiu del Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2024 (@dlbcn.ai), aquest dijous 19 de desembre.
#deeplearning #ciencia #català #barcelona
www.youtube.com/shorts/R4u_Z...
La @marionamec.bsky.social de @neurofregides.bsky.social ens ho explica en motiu del Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2024 (@dlbcn.ai), aquest dijous 19 de desembre.
#deeplearning #ciencia #català #barcelona
www.youtube.com/shorts/R4u_Z...
🔊New EMNLP paper from Eleonora Gualdoni & @gboleda.bsky.social !
Why do objects have many names?
Human lexicons contain different words that speakers can use to refer to the same object, e.g., purple or magenta for the same color.
We investigate using tools from efficient coding...🧵
1/3
Why do objects have many names?
Human lexicons contain different words that speakers can use to refer to the same object, e.g., purple or magenta for the same color.
We investigate using tools from efficient coding...🧵
1/3
December 2, 2024 at 10:43 AM
🔊New EMNLP paper from Eleonora Gualdoni & @gboleda.bsky.social !
Why do objects have many names?
Human lexicons contain different words that speakers can use to refer to the same object, e.g., purple or magenta for the same color.
We investigate using tools from efficient coding...🧵
1/3
Why do objects have many names?
Human lexicons contain different words that speakers can use to refer to the same object, e.g., purple or magenta for the same color.
We investigate using tools from efficient coding...🧵
1/3
Hello🌍! We're a computational linguistics group in Barcelona headed by Gemma Boleda, Marco Baroni & Thomas Brochhagen
We do psycholinguistics, cogsci, language evolution & NLP, with diverse backgrounds in philosophy, formal linguistics, CS & physics
Get in touch for postdoc, PhD & MS openings!
We do psycholinguistics, cogsci, language evolution & NLP, with diverse backgrounds in philosophy, formal linguistics, CS & physics
Get in touch for postdoc, PhD & MS openings!
November 25, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Hello🌍! We're a computational linguistics group in Barcelona headed by Gemma Boleda, Marco Baroni & Thomas Brochhagen
We do psycholinguistics, cogsci, language evolution & NLP, with diverse backgrounds in philosophy, formal linguistics, CS & physics
Get in touch for postdoc, PhD & MS openings!
We do psycholinguistics, cogsci, language evolution & NLP, with diverse backgrounds in philosophy, formal linguistics, CS & physics
Get in touch for postdoc, PhD & MS openings!
⚡Postdoc opportunity w/ COLT
Beatriu de Pinós contract, 3 yrs, competitive call by Catalan government.
Apply with a PI (Marco Gemma or Thomas)
Reqs: min 2y postdoc experience outside Spain, not having lived in Spain for >12 months in the last 3y.
Application ~December-February (exact dates TBD)
Beatriu de Pinós contract, 3 yrs, competitive call by Catalan government.
Apply with a PI (Marco Gemma or Thomas)
Reqs: min 2y postdoc experience outside Spain, not having lived in Spain for >12 months in the last 3y.
Application ~December-February (exact dates TBD)
November 25, 2024 at 9:56 AM
⚡Postdoc opportunity w/ COLT
Beatriu de Pinós contract, 3 yrs, competitive call by Catalan government.
Apply with a PI (Marco Gemma or Thomas)
Reqs: min 2y postdoc experience outside Spain, not having lived in Spain for >12 months in the last 3y.
Application ~December-February (exact dates TBD)
Beatriu de Pinós contract, 3 yrs, competitive call by Catalan government.
Apply with a PI (Marco Gemma or Thomas)
Reqs: min 2y postdoc experience outside Spain, not having lived in Spain for >12 months in the last 3y.
Application ~December-February (exact dates TBD)