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PhD student in computational linguistics & NLP at CIS, LMU Munich, junior member at MCML, previously at SJTU. ercong21.github.io

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πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉI'll be at #ACL2025! Recently I've been thinking about:
✨linguistically + cognitively-motivated evals (as always!)
✨understanding multilingualism + representation learning (new!)

I'll also be presenting a poster for BehaviorBox on Wed @ Poster Session 4 (Hall 4/5, 10-11:30)!

25.07.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to be at #ACL2025NLP #acl2025
@aclmeeting in Vienna πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ή to present our latest work at both the main conference and workshops!

If you're interested in multilingual NLP, human-inspired interpretability of LLMs, or related topics, feel free to stop by and say hi πŸ‘‹

24.07.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models Seminal work by Huebner et al. (2021) showed that language models (LMs) trained on English Child-Directed Language (CDL) can reach similar syntactic abilities as LMs trained on much larger amounts of ...

β€œChild-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models”

I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!

🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689

30.05.2025 07:39 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Bavarian dialect speakers needed! Our MSc student Miriam wants to find out 1. how good/bad LLM-generated "Bavarian" is, and 2. whether dialect speakers agree with each other on this. The survey takes <5 min: survey.ifkw.lmu.de/dialquali25/ Thank you for sharing/participating!

30.05.2025 14:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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ICML 2025 Workshop TokShop Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for ICML 2025 Workshop TokShop

πŸ“£ Call for Paper Alert: TokShop @ ICML 2025
TokShop explores tokenization across all data modalities. Topics include: subword NLP techniques, multimodal approaches, multilingual challenges, post-training modification, alternative representations, and statistical perspectives.

14.05.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
Call for Papers, Interplay Workshop at COLM: June 23rd - submissions due. July 24th - acceptance notification. October 10th - workshop day.

Call for Papers, Interplay Workshop at COLM: June 23rd - submissions due. July 24th - acceptance notification. October 10th - workshop day.

Are LM more than their behavior?

Join our @colmweb.org workshop and explore the interplay between what LMs answer and what happens internally ✨

See you in Montréal 🍁

CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu
Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX
Reviewer Nomination: shorturl.at/Jg1BP

#nlproc #interpretability

30.05.2025 06:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Three papers accepted to ACL 2025πŸ₯°

On cross-lingual knowledge editing, probing, and multilingual interpretabilityπŸ”

Sincere thanks to all the amazing coauthors and supervisors! ❀️

Looking forward to meeting old friends and knowing new people soon in Vienna! πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ή

17.05.2025 23:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Welcome to the First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research, co-located with COLM 2025, October 10, 2025, Montreal, Canada.

Welcome to the First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research, co-located with COLM 2025, October 10, 2025, Montreal, Canada.

πŸ›ŽοΈ Excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research at COLM 2025, Oct 10th in Montreal πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

As LLMs reshape public discourse and research, collaboration between NLP and Public Opinion Research (POR) is more vital than ever #NLPOR Submit by June 23πŸ“„

πŸ”— tinyurl.com/nlpor25

16.05.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

COMPS is a valuable dataset for exploring language models' concept understanding. We deeply appreciate your acknowledgment and credit to our XCOMPS work! πŸ™

03.04.2025 00:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

COMPS is a fantastic work for evaluating concept understanding (EACL 2023 best paper). Now, we aim to extend it to 17 languages for exploring multilingual concept understanding (with minimal pair probing). Check our latest findings.
Co-worked with @linyanghe.bsky.social

03.04.2025 00:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0