Aditya Yedetore presents at Brown
In February, Aditya Yedetore presented to ANCOR (AI, Neuro, and CogSci Research) at Brown University. His talk was titled “Classical computation in connectionist models” and you can read more about it and watch a recording here: brown-ancor.github.io
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference
BU Linguistics was well-represented at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference! Aditya Yedetore and Najoung Kim presented a poster titled “Semantic Training Signals Promote Hierarchical Syntactic Generalizations in Transformers”. Professor Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, also won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper […]
Grant: Najoung Kim
Congrats to Najoung Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Department of Computer Science! Open Philanthropy recommended a grant over two years to support a project evaluating the abilities of large language models (LLMs) led by Professor Najoung Kim and Professor Sebastian Schuster. To learn more, check out this article from BU!