Grusha Prasad
@grushaprasad
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Asst Prof of CS at @colgateuniv. I study sentence processing in humans and neural nets. Lover of stats, data visualization, replicable science and puns. She/her
Joined January 2016
It’s been really nice to see old friends so far. Would also like to make new friends! So come say hi. Happy to talk about comp psycholing, SLACs, purpose of life, puns/haikus, etc.
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Do you like syntactic theory, ACT-R, priming and/or parsing? Would you like to hear about a cognitive model that is NOT a neural network or a language model? Come to my talk at CoNLL tomorrow (11-12:30 session) where I will present work with @tallinzen!
arxiv.org
Structural priming is a widely used psycholinguistic paradigm to study human sentence representations. In this work we introduce SPAWN, a cognitively motivated parser that can generate...
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So excited to be back in Boston for #BUCLD! Come listen to @Forrest_L_Davis and I discuss how LLMs fail to capture human behavior with respect to word learning on Friday!
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This is happening soon! (The session starts right after coffee break)
I am at #ACL2024 and will be presenting joint work with @forrestdavis at the TeachingNLP workshop. The talk is on Aug 15 11:45 am in Lotus Suite 11. I would also love to grab coffee or meals with folks to chat about computational psycholing, SLACs, or life generally.
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In designing our NLP class(es) at @colgateuniv, we spent a lot of time thinking about how to balance linguistics vs. neural approaches while setting students up to work on ambitious projects and engage critically with the field. So it was fun to synthesize this in a paper!
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I am at #ACL2024 and will be presenting joint work with @forrestdavis at the TeachingNLP workshop. The talk is on Aug 15 11:45 am in Lotus Suite 11. I would also love to grab coffee or meals with folks to chat about computational psycholing, SLACs, or life generally.
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Soo this came up in my Prime video recommendations (keep trying Prime..) but I noticed something for the first time. Why the two different spellings for “kabhi” and “kabhie”??
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Can LMs serve as cognitive models of human language processing? Humans make syntactic agreement errors ("the key to the cabinets are rusty"). @sArehalli and I tested if the errors documented in six human studies emerge in LMs. They... sometimes did.
direct.mit.edu
Abstract. Languages are governed by syntactic constraints—structural rules that determine which sentences are grammatical in the language. In English, one such constraint is subject-verb agreement,...
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Makes me happy to see other punsters in the Colgate CLaP lab 🥲
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For the Bayes-curious: There are still some places open for my one-week long introduction to Bayesian statistics (specifically aimed at (psycho)linguists) using brms/Stan at the Gent summer school in July 2024:
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The talk 4 pm Friday is collaborative work with Omar Fargally, an undergrad at Colgate. Does it matter if you use MTurk or Prolific? We find Prolific has overall better accuracy and longer RTs, but no difference in garden path or adaptation effect sizes!
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The poster 5:40 pm Thursday (A9) is work with @tallinzen. Last HSP we introduced the SPAWN parser. This HSP we incorporate a more cognitively plausible reanalysis mechanism and find it better accounts for priming data! Preprint:
arxiv.org
Structural priming is a widely used psycholinguistic paradigm to study human sentence representations. In this work we introduce SPAWN, a cognitively motivated parser that can generate...
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Excited to be at HSP2024 in person (despite end of semester exhaustion)!! I’ll be presenting a poster at 5:40 pm today and a talk at 4 pm tomorrow (TLDR below, longer threads post conference). Would love to meet old friends and make new ones!
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Excited to share that I've been awarded the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, which will support my research for the next two years!! 🦫🍁 Now onto finishing this PhD and actually writing up papers lol
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I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher (2-year contract at UMass linguistics) interested in experimental/computational psycholinguistics. Please email me your CV by 4/19 if you are interested!
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🧙🍪🧙♀️ I'm hiring a postdoc with @sebschu to start in Fall 2024! We are looking for someone with experience in EITHER: (1) building systems that use language models as a core component to solve complex tasks, or (2) leading human annotation/behavioral experiments.
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Finally, I’ll be recruiting for Ph.D. positions in the fall 👩🎓👨🎓👩🎓 If you’re interested in using the tools of computer science and information theory to study how people learn and process language, feel free to reach out!
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#HSP2024 Looking forward to presenting a talk on negative polarity illusion with @LanguageMIT at Ann Arbor! I am thrilled to provide some new data patterns and I'd love to learn what you think about the underlying theory! 😀
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A bit late, but I'll be at #HSP2024 this year! Alongside some incredible coauthors (@psydock112 @sArehalli @grushaprasad @linguistbrian @tallinzen), I'll be presenting a poster about which eye tracking measures LM surprisal does and doesn't explain in garden path sentences.
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