Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My primary research interest involves the development of computational models of human language acquisition. Computational modeling is an effective tool for studying human cognition: whereas linguistic and psychological theories often give a high level explanation for the experimental data, computational models provide a detailed account of the underlying mechanisms for the cognitive task at hand. Moreover, the behaviour of a model can be directly compared to that of humans through computational simulation.
Career
Sep. 2011 - presentAssistant Professor, Department of Communication and Information Sciences, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Aug. 2008 - Aug. 2011Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany.
Teaching
- Research Workshop HAIT, Spring 2012
- Lecture: Digital Collaboration, Spring 2012
- Lecture: Cognitive Linguistics, Fall 2011
- Research skills module: Methods of Analysis of Functional Document, Fall 2011
Current courses
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Keywords
- Computer Models
- Computer Linguistics
- Language Acquisition
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Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language
Shen, G., Watkins, M., Alishahi, A., Bisazza, A. & Chrupała, G., 2024, p. 4250-4261. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Scientific › peer-review
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From grounded spaces to linguistic prediction: multimodal word meaning in context
Kenjeeva, S., Cassani, G., Venhuizen, N. J. & Alishahi, A., Oct 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Other research output
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How Language Models Prioritize Contextual Grammatical Cues?
Amirzadeh, H., Alishahi, A. & Mohebbi, H., Nov 2024, Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP. Belinkov, Y., Kim, N., Jumelet, J., Mohebbi, H., Mueller, A. M. & Chen, H. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 315–336 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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Homophone Disambiguation Reveals Patterns of Context Mixing in Speech Transformers
Mohebbi, H., Chrupała, G., Zuidema, W. & Alishahi, A., Dec 2023, Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 8249–8260 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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Quantifying Context Mixing in Transformers
Mohebbi, H., Zuidema, W., Chrupała, G. & Alishahi, A., May 2023, In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Dubrovnik, Croatia: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 3378-3400 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
Prizes
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CoNLL 2017 Best Paper Award
Alishahi, A. (Recipient), Barking, M. (Recipient) & Chrupala, G. (Recipient), 2017
Prize
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Outstanding Paper Award
Mohebbi, H. (Recipient), Chrupała, G. (Recipient), Zuidema, W. (Recipient) & Alishahi, A. (Recipient), Dec 2023
Prize: Other marks of recognition
Datasets
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The impact of first and second language exposure on learning second language constructions [Dataset]
Matusevych, Y. (Creator), Alishahi, A. (Creator) & Backus, A. (Creator), DataverseNL, 28 Jun 2016
DOI: 10.34894/zztbtt, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/ZZTBTT
Dataset