Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
@wegotlieb.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics @ Georgetown; formerly postdoc @ ETH Zurich; PhD @ Harvard Linguistics, affiliated with MIT Brain & Cog Sci. Language, Computers, Cognition.
I will be recruiting PhD students via Georgetown Linguistics this application cycle! Come join us in the PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) lab. We focus on psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling using LLMs. See the linked flyer for more details: bit.ly/3L3vcyA
October 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I will be recruiting PhD students via Georgetown Linguistics this application cycle! Come join us in the PICoL (pronounced “pickle”) lab. We focus on psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling using LLMs. See the linked flyer for more details: bit.ly/3L3vcyA
✅In line with our prediction, we find that mutual information is higher in tonal languages than in non-tonal languages. BUT, the way one represents context is important. When full sentential context is taken into account (mBERT and mGPT), the distinction collapses.
May 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
✅In line with our prediction, we find that mutual information is higher in tonal languages than in non-tonal languages. BUT, the way one represents context is important. When full sentential context is taken into account (mBERT and mGPT), the distinction collapses.