Paula Buttery

44 papers · 2016–2026 · 10 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) 🏃 Academic Marathon (9) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (6) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (75) 🏆 Keyword Champion (3) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (22) ❓ The Questioner ⚡ Prolific Year (8) 🚀 Conference Pioneer 🗃️ Keyword Collector (187) 💎 Century Club (41) 📈 Trend Setter 🔥 Unstoppable (8)

Conferences

EMNLP (14) ACL (8) CONLL (7) COLING (5) EACL (3) NAACL (3) AACL (1) IJCNLP (1) INTERSPEECH (1) SEMEVAL (1)

Top co-authors

Andrew Caines (23) Richard Diehl Martinez (12) Zébulon Goriely (10) Suchir Salhan (7) Marek Rei (5) David Demitri Africa (5) Helen Yannakoudakis (5) Zheng Yuan (5) Christopher Davis (5) Yuval Weiss (5)

Research topics

Education (3) Natural Language Processing (1) Applications (1)

Keywords

language model (10) text classification (6) small language model (5) large language model (5) transfer learning (3) language learning (3) child-directed speech (3) grammatical error detection (3) named entity recognition (3) few-shot prompting (2) few-shot learning (2) learning dynamics (2) subject-verb agreement (2) representation learning (2) multi-task learning (2) self-supervised learning (2) speech transcription (2) language modeling (2) text generation (2) word segmentation (2)

Papers

PictureStories: Predicting the Task Adherence of Language Learner Answers to a Picture Story-Based Writing Task EACL 2026

Beyond Names: How Grammatical Gender Markers Bias LLM-based Educational Recommendations EACL 2026

Looking to Learn: Token-wise Dynamic Gating for Low-Resource Vision-Language Modelling EMNLP 2025

BLiSS: Evaluating Bilingual Learner Competence in Second Language Small Language Models EMNLP 2025

What is the Best Sequence Length for BabyLM? EMNLP 2025

Pico: A Modular Framework for Hypothesis-Driven Small Language Model Research EMNLP 2025

IPA CHILDES & G2P+: Feature-Rich Resources for Cross-Lingual Phonology and Phonemic Language Modeling ACL 2025

BabyLM’s First Words: Word Segmentation as a Phonological Probing Task ACL 2025

Learning Dynamics of Meta-Learning in Small Model Pretraining IJCNLP 2025

Learning Dynamics of Meta-Learning in Small Model Pretraining AACL 2025

Rubrik’s Cube: Testing a New Rubric for Evaluating Explanations on the CUBE dataset ACL 2025

Meta-Pretraining for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Named Entity Recognition in Low-Resource Philippine Languages EMNLP 2025

Investigating ReLoRA: Effects on the Learning Dynamics of Small Language Models EMNLP 2025

A Survey on Automated Distractor Evaluation in Multiple-Choice Tasks ACL 2025

DLU: Dictionary Look-Up Data and Prediction ACL 2025

DLU: Dictionary Look-Up Data and Prediction CONLL 2025

BabyLM’s First Words: Word Segmentation as a Phonological Probing Task CONLL 2025

IPA CHILDES & G2P+: Feature-Rich Resources for Cross-Lingual Phonology and Phonemic Language Modeling CONLL 2025

Teacher Demonstrations in a BabyLM’s Zone of Proximal Development for Contingent Multi-Turn Interaction EMNLP 2025

Using LLMs to simulate students’ responses to exam questions EMNLP 2024

Prompting open-source and commercial language models for grammatical error correction of English learner text ACL 2024

Distractor Generation Using Generative and Discriminative Capabilities of Transformer-based Models COLING 2024

Logging Keystrokes in Writing by English Learners COLING 2024

From Babble to Words: Pre-Training Language Models on Continuous Streams of Phonemes CONLL 2024

Less is More: Pre-Training Cross-Lingual Small-Scale Language Models with Cognitively-Plausible Curriculum Learning Strategies CONLL 2024

Mitigating Frequency Bias and Anisotropy in Language Model Pre-Training with Syntactic Smoothing EMNLP 2024

Tending Towards Stability: Convergence Challenges in Small Language Models EMNLP 2024

CLIMB – Curriculum Learning for Infant-inspired Model Building EMNLP 2023

CLIMB – Curriculum Learning for Infant-inspired Model Building CONLL 2023

ALEN App: Argumentative Writing Support To Foster English Language Learning NAACL 2022

Constructing Open Cloze Tests Using Generation and Discrimination Capabilities of Transformers ACL 2022

Probing for targeted syntactic knowledge through grammatical error detection EMNLP 2022

The Specificity and Helpfulness of Peer-to-Peer Feedback in Higher Education NAACL 2022

Towards an open-domain chatbot for language practice NAACL 2022

Probing for targeted syntactic knowledge through grammatical error detection CONLL 2022

Efficient Unsupervised NMT for Related Languages with Cross-Lingual Language Models and Fidelity Objectives EACL 2021

The Teacher-Student Chatroom Corpus COLING 2020

Detecting Trending Terms in Cybersecurity Forum Discussions EMNLP 2020

Investigating the effect of auxiliary objectives for the automated grading of learner English speech transcriptions ACL 2020

Grammatical error detection in transcriptions of spoken English COLING 2020

CAMsterdam at SemEval-2019 Task 6: Neural and graph-based feature extraction for the identification of offensive tweets SEMEVAL 2019

Aggressive language in an online hacking forum EMNLP 2018

Automated speech-unit delimitation in spoken learner English COLING 2016

Vowel Characteristics in the Assessment of L2 English Pronunciation INTERSPEECH 2016