Tom McCoy

rtommccoy.bsky.social

16 October 2026 06:29

🤖🧠NEW PAPER🧠🤖 What is the relationship between neural networks & symbolic systems? Based on evidence from mechanistic interpretability, we argue for a quasi-symbolic view of cognition: Neural nets implement symbols but only approximately Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/n

Kanishka Misra

kanishka.bsky.social

14 October 2026 16:14

Now out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... And excited to report that my first PhD student, Chan Young, has already taken on several of the directions I outlined in this paper!

Ben Lang

benebular.bsky.social

04 October 2026 07:37

Had a wonderful time at #SNL2026 spreading the word about perceiving linguistic sources of creaky voice. Thanks to everyone that stopped by my poster and stay tuned for more! @snlmtg.bsky.social

Simon J. Greenhill

simongreenhill.bsky.social

02 October 2026 11:37

Biggest question? how do we convince people that linguistics is important and interesting despite massive funding cuts and closure of linguistics/humanities departments worldwide?

Marco

mcognetta.bsky.social

30 September 2026 16:29

🚨 [Token][ization] Paper Alert 🚨 Tokenization is a wildly understudied area of language modeling despite it having effects across all of NLP. Over the past ~8 months, 32 (!) tokenizer researchers put together the most comprehensive survey of the field. Check it out!