Masoud
@langloglearn.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of linguistics at UC Davis Researching language, logic, and learning in humans & sometimes machines
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
I'm convinced over-reliance on forced choice tasks have created a lot of task-specific findings that lack external validity in different fields of behavioral sciences and one day we have to face that crisis
January 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm convinced over-reliance on forced choice tasks have created a lot of task-specific findings that lack external validity in different fields of behavioral sciences and one day we have to face that crisis
Kinda fascinating how researchers (systematically?) overestimate cognitive abilities of human-built systems like LLMs while underestimating the cognitive abilities of natural systems like animals or children
January 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Kinda fascinating how researchers (systematically?) overestimate cognitive abilities of human-built systems like LLMs while underestimating the cognitive abilities of natural systems like animals or children
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LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
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Very sad to have to share news of my old friend and colleague Bob Bayley's passing. He was a true scholar, mentor, and upright human being. I'll miss him a lot. utlinguistics.blogspot.com/2024/12/rip-...
RIP Bob Bayley
RIP Bob Bayley We are so sad to learn that Dr. Robert Bayley , Professor Emeritus of Linguistics , UC Davis, and an associate member of t...
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January 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Very sad to have to share news of my old friend and colleague Bob Bayley's passing. He was a true scholar, mentor, and upright human being. I'll miss him a lot. utlinguistics.blogspot.com/2024/12/rip-...
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Linguistics Careercast #podcast: With guest Carole Chaski, a forensic linguist. Her research has led to improvements in the methodology and reliability of stylometric analysis and inspired research on the use of this approach for authorship identification. www.linguisticscaree...
Episode #61: Carole Chaski - Linguistics Careercast
"You need to have a heart of service to do this work" Carole Chaski is a forensic linguist who is considered one of the leading experts in the field. Her research has led to improvements in the methodology and reliability of computational linguistics and inspired research on the use of this approach for authorship identification.
www.linguisticscareercast.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Linguistics Careercast #podcast: With guest Carole Chaski, a forensic linguist. Her research has led to improvements in the methodology and reliability of stylometric analysis and inspired research on the use of this approach for authorship identification. www.linguisticscaree...
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December 2, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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Don't miss the Nijmegen Lectures, a unique 3-day series of talks & discussion by renowned psychologists @fernandaedi.bsky.social & Victor Ferreira, Jan 7-9, 2025! Topics will span the psycholinguistic continuum from intention to articulation. More info & registration here: www.mpi.nl/events/nijme...
November 30, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Don't miss the Nijmegen Lectures, a unique 3-day series of talks & discussion by renowned psychologists @fernandaedi.bsky.social & Victor Ferreira, Jan 7-9, 2025! Topics will span the psycholinguistic continuum from intention to articulation. More info & registration here: www.mpi.nl/events/nijme...
needs to be on Bluesky too
November 25, 2024 at 3:25 PM
needs to be on Bluesky too
There is so much really brilliant research from the 50-70s in cogsci and linguistics that is not being read or referenced anymore and I find that a real pity. We shouldn't reinvent the wheel or rediscover things we already know. Older literature should be actively read, taught, and discussed
November 24, 2024 at 8:37 PM
There is so much really brilliant research from the 50-70s in cogsci and linguistics that is not being read or referenced anymore and I find that a real pity. We shouldn't reinvent the wheel or rediscover things we already know. Older literature should be actively read, taught, and discussed
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ASR systems are getting *really* good. But how do they actually compare to humans when the listening environment is challenging? In our JASA-EL paper led by Chloe Patman, we compare SoTA ASR systems in pub and speech-shaped noise and directly compare their performance against L1 English speakers
Speech recognition in adverse conditions by humans and machines
In the development of automatic speech recognition systems, achieving human-like performance has been a long-held goal. Recent releases of large spoken language
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November 20, 2024 at 8:44 PM
ASR systems are getting *really* good. But how do they actually compare to humans when the listening environment is challenging? In our JASA-EL paper led by Chloe Patman, we compare SoTA ASR systems in pub and speech-shaped noise and directly compare their performance against L1 English speakers
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Our new paper “Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?” was just presented at #EMNLP2024! This is work led by Steven Feng, with Noah Goodman.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.03617
arxiv.org/abs/2408.03617
Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?
While high-performing language models are typically trained on hundreds of billions of words, human children become fluent language users with a much smaller amount of data. What are the features of t...
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November 20, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Our new paper “Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?” was just presented at #EMNLP2024! This is work led by Steven Feng, with Noah Goodman.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.03617
arxiv.org/abs/2408.03617
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AI voice assistants have become an integral part of many people's everyday life.
Do people talk to AI as if it were another human?
Read more about how speakers use prosody to focus important words when talking to AI devices in our new paper!
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Do people talk to AI as if it were another human?
Read more about how speakers use prosody to focus important words when talking to AI devices in our new paper!
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
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November 20, 2024 at 2:22 AM
AI voice assistants have become an integral part of many people's everyday life.
Do people talk to AI as if it were another human?
Read more about how speakers use prosody to focus important words when talking to AI devices in our new paper!
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Do people talk to AI as if it were another human?
Read more about how speakers use prosody to focus important words when talking to AI devices in our new paper!
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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More than 150 years after it was written, this quote remains one of the best summaries of why geneticists should study #language. In just a handful of words, Charles Darwin perfectly captures the intertwining of nature and nurture that underpins this distinctive human capacity:
November 19, 2024 at 6:19 PM
More than 150 years after it was written, this quote remains one of the best summaries of why geneticists should study #language. In just a handful of words, Charles Darwin perfectly captures the intertwining of nature and nurture that underpins this distinctive human capacity:
I just read "within minimalist program, case is a semantically uninterpretable feature on nominals" and it reminded me how counter-intuitive this is. Like it seems very obvious that case communicates meaning. pure syntactic treatment of it seems wrong. what am I missing?
November 16, 2024 at 8:38 PM
I just read "within minimalist program, case is a semantically uninterpretable feature on nominals" and it reminded me how counter-intuitive this is. Like it seems very obvious that case communicates meaning. pure syntactic treatment of it seems wrong. what am I missing?
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Hey! I'm teaching "Linguistics of Sign Languages" at the Linguistics Society of America's Summer Institute this summer (w/ Ryan Lepic). There are going to be so many great classes and instructors. I'd appreciate if you'd share this and send good students our way!
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The Linguistics of Sign Languages
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
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November 15, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Hey! I'm teaching "Linguistics of Sign Languages" at the Linguistics Society of America's Summer Institute this summer (w/ Ryan Lepic). There are going to be so many great classes and instructors. I'd appreciate if you'd share this and send good students our way!
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...
center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...
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(1) Vision language models can explain complex charts & decode memes, but struggle with simple tasks young kids find easy - like counting objects or finding items in cluttered scenes! Our 🆒🆕 #NeurIPS2024 paper shows why: they face the same 'binding problem' that constrains human vision! 🧵👇
November 15, 2024 at 3:09 AM
(1) Vision language models can explain complex charts & decode memes, but struggle with simple tasks young kids find easy - like counting objects or finding items in cluttered scenes! Our 🆒🆕 #NeurIPS2024 paper shows why: they face the same 'binding problem' that constrains human vision! 🧵👇
wait you can't bookmark posts here?! how else would I create a list of cool papers I'll likely not have time to read?
November 15, 2024 at 9:54 PM
wait you can't bookmark posts here?! how else would I create a list of cool papers I'll likely not have time to read?
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I’m recruiting PhD students to join the Computational Minds and Machines Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle! Join us to work at the intersection of computational cognitive science and AI with a broad focus on social intelligence. (Please reshare!)
November 15, 2024 at 5:01 PM
I’m recruiting PhD students to join the Computational Minds and Machines Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle! Join us to work at the intersection of computational cognitive science and AI with a broad focus on social intelligence. (Please reshare!)
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Honestly, I never thought I’d see the day, and I only wish my parents were around to take in this moment with me. My OUP book “Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction” is now in the final proofs stage. Must be a lot of pollen in the air because I seem to be tearing up…
November 15, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Honestly, I never thought I’d see the day, and I only wish my parents were around to take in this moment with me. My OUP book “Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction” is now in the final proofs stage. Must be a lot of pollen in the air because I seem to be tearing up…
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🤖🧠 I'll be considering applications for postdocs & PhD students to start at Yale in Fall 2025!
If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and AI, I encourage you to apply!
Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and AI, I encourage you to apply!
Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
November 14, 2024 at 9:39 PM
🤖🧠 I'll be considering applications for postdocs & PhD students to start at Yale in Fall 2025!
If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and AI, I encourage you to apply!
Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and AI, I encourage you to apply!
Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_...
linguistics profs, literally
November 14, 2024 at 8:23 PM
linguistics profs, literally
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Blue sky lets you play YouTube videos in the app?? Already so much better than twitter!
Here's a video I made about the science and linguistics of one of my favorite movies - Arrival. Check it out!
youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3I
Here's a video I made about the science and linguistics of one of my favorite movies - Arrival. Check it out!
youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3I
Can language change the way you think? [The Science of Arrival]
YouTube video by Language of Mind
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November 14, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Blue sky lets you play YouTube videos in the app?? Already so much better than twitter!
Here's a video I made about the science and linguistics of one of my favorite movies - Arrival. Check it out!
youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3I
Here's a video I made about the science and linguistics of one of my favorite movies - Arrival. Check it out!
youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3I
Is there a linguistics and language sciences starter pack here? Did I miss it?
November 14, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Is there a linguistics and language sciences starter pack here? Did I miss it?
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Come join us in Oxford! Or encourage your friends to apply, so you can visit them here! We are looking to fill the Professorship in Language and Communication, a senior professor position. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 12, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Come join us in Oxford! Or encourage your friends to apply, so you can visit them here! We are looking to fill the Professorship in Language and Communication, a senior professor position. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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