The goat that the cat that the dog that the stick that the fire that the water that the ox that the butcher that the Angel of Death that the Holy One, Blessed be He smote killed slaughtered drank quenched burned beat bit ate was purchased by my father for two zuzim.

🔑 🗝️ The Article+Adjective+Numeral+Noun (e.g., “a lovely five days”) construction is quite rare, and yet people and LMs know it’s grammatical. What is the key to learning such a rare construction? Kyle Mahowald and I answer this question in the context of LMs in our new paper:

BabyLM is back for round two! This time we have: 1. Multimodal track 2. Bring your own data and 3. Paper track! See the CfP for all the juicy details!

Excited about this new benchmark/framework — it’s designed to be flexibly extended to address new questions about LLM capabilities as they arise!

🤩Exciting update: 🤩 This paper has been published in Cognition. Check it out online here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Find out more about Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR), a new experimental method for investigating incremental language processing, developed by Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox and Cui Ding that has just been published in JourMemLang sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to be speaking at this workshop @ ICML in Vienna! If anyone has tips on how/where to buy an 18th-century Viennese powdered wig (required for speakers), **please** let me know.

🔔 Update!🔔This paper is now out in JML. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Please reach out to the team if you're interested in using MoTR in an experiment!