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Career

· Associate Professor, University of Washington2024–
· Assistant Professor, University of Washington2019–2024
· Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam2017–2019
· Research Software Engineering Intern, Google2016–2016
· Ph.D., Philosophy And Symbolic Systems, Stanford University2011–2017
· Teaching Assistant, JHU Department of Mathematics2010–2011
· Research Scientist, Center for Imaging Sciences2008–2011
· B.A., Philosophy, Mathematics, Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University2007–2011

Publications (67)

Learnability and semantic universals
Semantics and Pragmatics · 2019
53
cited
Linguistically-Informed Transformations (LIT): A Method for Automatically Generating Contrast Sets
BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP · 2020
43
cited
Ease of learning explains semantic universals
Cognition · 2019
42
cited
Language Models Use Monotonicity to Assess NPI Licensing
Findings · 2021
32
cited
Compositional Signaling in a Complex World
Journal of Logic, Language and Information · 2016
30
cited
Semantic expressivism for epistemic modals
Linguistics and Philosophy · 2020
27
cited
Toward the Emergence of Nontrivial Compositionality
Philosophia Scientiæ · 2020
27
cited
Informational dynamics of epistemic possibility modals
Synthese · 2018
26
cited
An Explanation of the Veridical Uniformity Universal
Journal of Semantics · 2019
24
cited
Quantifiers in Natural Language: Efficient Communication and Degrees of Semantic Universals
Entropy · 2021
23
cited
Complexity/informativeness trade-off in the domain of indefinite pronouns
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2021
21
cited
Indefinite Pronouns Optimize the Simplicity/Informativeness Trade‐Off
Cognitive Sciences · 2022
18
cited
Iterating semantic automata
2013
17
cited
Quantifiers in natural language optimize the simplicity/informativeness trade-off ∗
2019
15
cited
A Masked Segmental Language Model for Unsupervised Natural Language Segmentation
Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology Workshop · 2021
14
cited
Embedding Structure Matters: Comparing Methods to Adapt Multilingual Vocabularies to New Languages
MRL · 2023
13
cited
A multilabel approach to morphosyntactic probing
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2021
12
cited
Beyond Anthropocentrism in Comparative Cognition: Recentering Animal Linguistics
Cognitive Sciences · 2022
10
cited
Bilingual alignment transfers to multilingual alignment for unsupervised parallel text mining
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2021
10
cited
Complexity and learnability in the explanation of semantic universals of quantifiers
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2019
10
cited
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