Linguistics

[CogSci26] Rational Communication Shapes Morphological Composition
Human languages expand vocabularies by combining existing morphemes rather than inventing arbitrary forms. Communicative efficiency …
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[CogSci26] Rational Communication Shapes Morphological Composition
[CogSci26] Multi-Level Narrative Evaluation Outperforms Lexical Features for Mental Health
How people narrate their experiences offers a window into how the mind organizes them. Computational approaches to therapeutic writing …
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[CogSci26] Multi-Level Narrative Evaluation Outperforms Lexical Features for Mental Health
[NatureHumanBehaviour26] Combined evidence from artificial neural networks and human brain-lesion models reveals that language modulates vision in human perception
Comparing information structures in between deep neural networks (DNNs) and the human brain has become a key method for exploring their …
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[NatureHumanBehaviour26] Combined evidence from artificial neural networks and human brain-lesion models reveals that language modulates vision in human perception
[CogSci25] Word Embeddings Track Social Group Changes Across 70 Years in China
Language encodes societal beliefs about social groups through word patterns. While computational methods like word embeddings enable …
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[CogSci25] Word Embeddings Track Social Group Changes Across 70 Years in China
[ICML23] MEWL: Few-shot multimodal word learning with referential uncertainty
Without explicit feedback, humans can rapidly learn the meaning of words. Children can acquire a new word after just a few passive …
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[ICML23] MEWL: Few-shot multimodal word learning with referential uncertainty
[NeurIPS22] Emergent Graphical Conventions in a Visual Communication Game
Humans communicate with graphical sketches apart from symbolic languages (Fay et al., 2014). Primarily focusing on the latter, recent …
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[NeurIPS22] Emergent Graphical Conventions in a Visual Communication Game