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Richard Futrell

27 papers · 2015–2025 · 6 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (9) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (53) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (6) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (10) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ† Keyword Champion (2) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (9) ⚑ Prolific Year (6) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ’Ž Century Club (27) ❓ The Questioner (3) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (129)

Conferences

EMNLP (8) ACL (7) NAACL (6) EACL (3) IJCNLP (2) COLING (1)

Top co-authors

Roger Levy (7) Ethan Wilcox (5) Kyle Mahowald (4) Isabel Papadimitriou (3) William Dyer (3) Weijie Xu (3) Peng Qian (3) Greg Scontras (3) Miguel Ballesteros (3) Zoey Liu (2)

Research topics

Linguistics (2)

Keywords

language model (5) representation learning (4) subregular language (3) information theory (3) filler-gap dependency (2) language comprehension (2) large language model (2) stochastic gradient descent (2) syntactic generalization (2) neural language model (2) contextual embedding (2) synthetic language (2) working memory (2) cognitive modeling (2) language acquisition (2) word order (2) inductive bia (2) morphological analysis (2) mutual information (2) linguistic typology (2)

Papers

Creolization versus code-switching: An agent-based cognitive model for bilingual strategies in language contact NAACL 2025
SPACER: A Parallel Dataset of Speech Production And Comprehension of Error Repairs NAACL 2025
Mission: Impossible Language Models ACL 2024
Syntactic dependency length shaped by strategic memory allocation EACL 2024
Simpler neural networks prefer subregular languages EMNLP 2023
The Linearity of the Effect of Surprisal on Reading Times across Languages EMNLP 2023
Exploring the Sensitivity of LLMs’ Decision-Making Capabilities: Insights from Prompt Variations and Hyperparameters EMNLP 2023
Estimating word co-occurrence probabilities from pretrained static embeddings using a log-bilinear model ACL 2022
When classifying grammatical role, BERT doesn’t care about word order... except when it matters ACL 2022
Investigating Information-Theoretic Properties of the Typology of Spatial Demonstratives NAACL 2022
Measuring Morphological Fusion Using Partial Information Decomposition COLING 2022
Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain IJCNLP 2021
An Information-Theoretic Characterization of Morphological Fusion EMNLP 2021
Simple induction of (deterministic) probabilistic finite-state automata for phonotactics by stochastic gradient descent IJCNLP 2021
Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain ACL 2021
Deep Subjecthood: Higher-Order Grammatical Features in Multilingual BERT EACL 2021
Simple induction of (deterministic) probabilistic finite-state automata for phonotactics by stochastic gradient descent ACL 2021
Structural Supervision Improves Few-Shot Learning and Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models EMNLP 2020
What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks ACL 2020
What Determines the Order of Verbal Dependents in Hindi? Effects of Efficiency in Comprehension and Production EMNLP 2020
Language Learning and Processing in People and Machines NAACL 2019
Neural language models as psycholinguistic subjects: Representations of syntactic state NAACL 2019
Structural Supervision Improves Learning of Non-Local Grammatical Dependencies NAACL 2019
Hierarchical Representation in Neural Language Models: Suppression and Recovery of Expectations ACL 2019
What do RNN Language Models Learn about Filler–Gap Dependencies? EMNLP 2018
Noisy-context surprisal as a human sentence processing cost model EACL 2017
Experiments with Generative Models for Dependency Tree Linearization EMNLP 2015