Ph. D. candidate, Cornell Psychology in the Cognitive Science of Language lab. Serious account.
Ithaca, NY
Joined September 2020
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Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
I've been having a nice time talking to @denizcemonduygu about maps and graphs of philosophical discourse, and thought I'd repost my bibliometric map of the phenomenology literature. Dots are authors, links are citations, and colors are clusters.
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@CSL_Lab alumn @pcontrerask talks about how feedback is crucial for getting large language models to produce more human-like language output, such as making similar agreement errors and being sensitive to subtle semantic distinctions
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Information density as a predictor of communication dynamics
Spotlight by Gary Lupyan (@glupyan), Pablo Contreras Kallens (@pcontrerask), & Rick Dale on recent @NatureHumanBehav work by Pete Aceves (@peteaceves) & James Evans (@profjamesevans)
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ixK3…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
How do infants learn to produce the consonant sounds of their ambient language? To find out, check out our CogSci proceedings paper “Statistical learning or phonological universals? Ambient language statistics guide consonant acquisition in four languages” A 🧵: /1
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
I'm delighted to announce the publication of our free, open access book, "Horizons of Phenomenology", a collection of essays on the state of the field. A brief thread about the book, and the long and ultimately victorious struggle to publish it open access. 1/
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
Just realized I didn't include the link. Here it is! link.springer.com/book/10.10…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
In sum, the ideas that children (a) have innate syntactic categories and (b) NEED them because they can't construct them via distributional analyses alone are NOT straw-men but real and influential proposals in the child language literature 7/n
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
I've seen lots of threads about large language models (LLMs) and their implications for language acquisition BUT not many threads by language-acquisition specialists. So here's my two cents on how LLMs undermine SOME SPECIFIC PROPOSALS for acquisition of syntactic categories 1/n
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
For the Friday evening crowd still mulling over Chomsky’s op-ed, here’s a key passage from our recent letter in @cogsci_soc. There are absolutely some things LLMs cannot do. But what they can do, they do very well - and that demands attention. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…
If you are unsatisfied by Chomsky et al.'s painfully petrified op-ed, boy do I have a read for you! It wasn't planned, but CogSci just published a letter by @MH_Christiansen , @ross_dkm and I arguing quite literally the opposite, at least re:language. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar… 🧵
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
And for those who’d like a less academic take on the issues in this article, take a look at our short piece in the @ConversationUS:
theconversation.com/ai-is-ch…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
Another day, another opinion essay about ChatGPT in the @nytimes. This time, Noam Chomsky and colleagues weigh in on the shortcomings of language models. Unfortunately, this is not the nuanced discussion one could have hoped for. 🧵 1/
nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opini…
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@CSL_Lab's @pcontrerask and @MH_Christiansen have a letter in Cognitive Science with @ross_dkm arguing that Large Language Models provide an existence proof that language can be learned from experience alone without a built-in grammar.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
In a letter in Cognitive Science, @pcontrerask,
@ross_dkm and I argue that Large Language Models - despite their many shortcomings - demonstrate that human-like grammatical language production can be learned from experience alone.
Read it for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
New piece with @pcontrerask in @ConversationUS about how large language models provide an existence proof that language is learnable from input alone without the need of an innate universal grammar (or similar built-in language-specific constraints)
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theconversation.com/ai-is-ch…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
"Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science" with @asifa_majid @JoHenrich @EvangeliaAdamou D Kemmerer now published online (and free) in @TrendsCognSci cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
New paper out by @CSL_Lab grad student @pcontrerask: "Networks in philosophy: Social networks and employment in academic philosophy".
Key finding: gender, prestige, & country have notable effects on academic job market outcomes for recent #Philosophy PhDs
doi.org/10.1111/meta.12591
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
📣 Watch @pcontrerask talk tomorrow at 10.50AM CEST at the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning #X_PPL 2022: Analyses of a diverse set of languages sho that words for things and words for actions be distinguished by their sound!
comparativelinguistics.uzh.c…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
@CSL_Lab grad student @pcontrerask is talking about his work w/Padraic Monaghan and @MH_Christiansen about how languages contain information in the sounds of words to distinguish between labels for actions and for things. See the talk at 10:50AM CST
comparativelinguistics.uzh.c…
Pablo Contreras Kallens retweeted
Don't miss @pcontrerask #AMLaP2022 flash talk on Thursday, Sept. 8, at at 17:15 GMT, Spruik C1: Bootham Bar, about how words for things and words for actions sound differently across over 200 mostly understudied languages (w/P. Monaghan and me)
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