Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UT Austin. Works on computational understanding of language, concepts, and generalization. Aspiring wugologist!
🕸️👁️: https://kanishka.website
Kanishka Misra
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A little bit of wugology to test LLM pharmacology (linguistics meets medicine?)
Check out @kaijie-mo.bsky.social’s tour de force effort in leading this project from a casual idea thrown around during a chat to a proper manuscript!
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@jennysaffran.bsky.social
Computational people are not oblivious to this, for example @kanishka.bsky.social gave an awesome keynote with a super cool slide (I forgot to sneak a picture 🥲) on the (envisioned) relationship between machine cog sci and human cog sci. 5/n
Since last week's (totally awesome btw) ICCG14 in Princeton, I can't stop thinking about LMs and linguistics. I know this topic has been discussed to death, so pls bear with me (long thread incoming). 1/n
Wrote today's NYT crossword - enjoy!
Excited to present at ICCG14, check out the program for a lot of cool works by a lot of cool people: iccg14.oa-event.com/program
New preprint w/ @drbarner.bsky.social, and probably the most fun project I've worked on!!
Past studies find kids fail to compute scalar implicatures. Do those tasks test spontaneous interpretation, or do they proffer worlds kids would never consider? 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
New minimal pair analysis dataset, this time for American sign-language! Also has a bit of controlled rearing work using the SHuBERT model!
(It’s minimal in the translation and not video, so there’s still lots to do!)
Find the data here: github.com/serpilkarabu...
This wouldn’t have been possible without the ASLLRP Continuous Sign Language Corpora, hosted here: dai.cs.rutgers.edu/dai/s/dai
