Kate Davidson

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Kate Davidson

Kate Davidson

@TeaAnd_OrCoffee

Professor of Linguistics, research at the intersection of meaning, modalities, and the mind (she/her) ☀️

Beigetreten Kasım 2008
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Najoung Kim 🫠
Najoung Kim 🫠@najoungkim·
Here's work where we try to take analogies quite seriously, plus our takes about LLM experiments serving to raise the bar for what we are willing to take as behavioral evidence for things like composition 💇‍♀️
Hayley Ross@HayleyRossLing

New paper with @najoungkim and @TeaAnd_OrCoffee! We previously found that humans and LLMs generalize to novel adjective-noun inferences (e.g. "Is a homemade currency still a currency?") Turns out analogy isn't enough to generalize, so it's likely evidence of composition! 🧵

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Najoung Kim 🫠
Najoung Kim 🫠@najoungkim·
so proud of @HayleyRossLing for getting a best paper award at @GenBench this year!! 🎉🪅🎉 I'm sure @TeaAnd_OrCoffee would be too :) check out our paper and share if you think homemade cats are cats!
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Hayley Ross@HayleyRossLing

New paper with @najoungkim and @TeaAnd_OrCoffee testing if LLMs can draw adjective-noun inferences like humans! Turns out they often can, and even generalize to unseen combinations. But they're more optimistic about "artificial intelligence" than humans. arxiv.org/abs/2410.17482

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Najoung Kim 🫠
Najoung Kim 🫠@najoungkim·
It was really fun to work with Hayley and Kate testing human generalization patterns on adjective-noun compositions! Hayley will be presenting this at @ELM_Conference. Also, follow her for updates on future work including cool comp ling stuff!
Hayley Ross@HayleyRossLing

New preprint with @najoungkim & @TeaAnd_OrCoffee on fake reefs and other cases of (novel) adjective-noun composition: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008012 Whether a fake N is an N or not depends on noun + context, but people handle novel AN pairs just fine 🙂 Stay tuned for results on LLMs!

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Lisa Bylinina@bylinina·
what semantic types can pictures have? are they always situations/states-of-affairs/whatever-you-call-it? can they be, say, dp or np types? asking for a friend
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Kate Davidson
Kate Davidson@TeaAnd_OrCoffee·
Middle of the night #TISLR14 poster presentations "in Japan" is surprisingly fun (although not sure I can do it two nights in a row, and I expect to pay for it later today)!
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Kate Davidson
Kate Davidson@TeaAnd_OrCoffee·
I think this is one of the coolest projects in recent linguistics, combining historical change and sign languages and semantics and just all kinds of insight (invokes pronouns, reflexives, copulas…). And they’re doing a webinar on it, tomorrow!
Tory Sampson 🧏🏼🧡@TorytheLinguist

Dr. Rachel Mayberry and I will be presenting our work about the grammaticalization of SELF across 150 years of ASL in a webinar by @LingSocAm on July 21 at 9 am PST/12 pm EST! Registration link is here! Everyone welcome! register.gotowebinar.com/register/88689…

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Kate Davidson
Kate Davidson@TeaAnd_OrCoffee·
Finishing with just, hoping we can eventually find a better balance that keeps bringing us together​ somehow/sometimes, is maximally inclusive for folks who can't be there, and considers planetary harm in these hot times. Tough, obviously, esp. for interdisciplinary folks!
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Kate Davidson
Kate Davidson@TeaAnd_OrCoffee·
I'm also taking the moment to reflect on conferences. Even though I'll miss this one, I really do value bringing humans together to see each other as people and ask the stupid questions to other fields, especially folks who don't​ social media (it shouldn't be a requirement...)
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Kate Davidson@TeaAnd_OrCoffee·
Had been looking forward this whole year to give a keynote at @E_SPPMilan2022, to represent Linguistics and learn from cognitive science-oriented Philosophers and Psychologists. Instead, like so many I ended up with COVID this week 😢 (first time, whole family...). That said,
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Kate Davidson@TeaAnd_OrCoffee·
@SarahHLee6 @ELM_Conference Haha catching my incredulous gesture, that rain came out of nowhere 🌧🤷‍♀️ (And didn’t want to miss a talk, so many great discussions! 😍)
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Sarah Hye-yeon Lee
Sarah Hye-yeon Lee@sarah_hy_lee·
All this rainpour (😱) can’t stop us from getting excited about Experiments in Linguistic Meaning! #ELM2 @ELM_Conference
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Josh Martin
Josh Martin@JoshMartinLing·
The name change is official: I successfully defended my dissertation - “Compositional routes to (non)intersectivity” - yesterday! Reviewers (aka Gennaro) call it “deeply unsettling” and “1/3 right”, which is all the praise I could ever ask for.
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Kate Davidson
Kate Davidson@TeaAnd_OrCoffee·
@JoshMartinLing Ha! Did a spit take then, and then again at this reminder/+picture! It was excellent, definitely certified fresh🍅 by critics 📚🍾🥳🎓 (and if you work on this topic, lucky you: it's also fun to read!)
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Jon Henner
Jon Henner@jmhenner·
Tenure! At the primarily hearing institution.
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Kate Davidson@TeaAnd_OrCoffee·
@najoungkim It's honestly taken me a long time to love it here (so many who do went to school here...), but autumn takes your breath away, summer at the beaches is fun, you don't need a car, and I hugely respect our schools (@cambridge_cpsd). March is *not* the area at its best though 😂
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Najoung Kim 🫠
Najoung Kim 🫠@najoungkim·
In boston for the very first time! Cold! Just want these guys to be safe!
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