Computational Linguistics

Najoung Kim selected as keynote speaker

Professor Najoung Kim was chosen as a keynote speaker for the 10th Workshop on Representation Learning for NL (RepL4NLP 2025)! The event took place in early May and her talk was titled “What does it take to convince ourselves that a system is exhibiting compositionality?” You can read more about the conference at RepL4NLP 2025. […]

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 […]

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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!