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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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Learning English with Peppa Pig
Nikolaus, M., Alishahi, A. & Chrupała, G., 1 Sep 2022, In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 10, p. 922-936 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Discrete representations in neural models of spoken language
Higy, B., Gelderloos, L., Alishahi, A. & Chrupała, G., 1 Nov 2021, Proceedings of the Fourth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 163-176 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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ZR-2021VG: Zero-Resource Speech Challenge, Visually-Grounded Language Modelling track, 2021 edition
Alishahi, A., Chrupała, G., Cristià, A., Dupoux, E., Higy, B., Lavechin, M., Räsänen, O. & Yu, C., 2021, In: CoRR. abs/2107.06546Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
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Active Word Learning through Self-supervision
Gelderloos, L., Alishahi, A. & Mahmoudi Kamelabad, A., 2020, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. p. 1050-1056Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
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Analyzing analytical methods: The case of phonology in neural models of spoken language
Chrupała, G., Higy, B. & Alishahi, A., 1 Jul 2020, Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 4146-4156 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
Prizes / Recognition
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CoNLL 2017 Best Paper Award
Alishahi, Afra (Recipient), Barking, M. (Recipient) & Chrupała, Grzegorz (Recipient), 2017
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