Aditya Yedetore

PhD student at Boston University

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email: [last]@bu.edu

I am a graduate student in the Linguistics Department at Boston University, working with Professor Najoung Kim. I am interested in semantics, syntax, and language acquisition. My current work involves comparing linguistic generalization in neural networks and children.

Previously I completed a double major in Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. I did research with Tal Linzen, Bob Frank, and Tom McCoy studying language acquisition through simulation with deep learning models. I also did research with Justin Halberda and Nico Arlotti on the interface between our visual system and the meanings of “All” and “Each”.

news

Oct 8, 2024 New preprint! With Najoung Kim.
Sep 24, 2024 Presented at Harvard’s Language and Cognition talk series.
May 2, 2024 Invited talk at the MIT CPL on cues to hierarchical generalization in neural networks.
Apr 16, 2024 Spotlight talk & poster at NENLP 2024 on semantic bootstrapping in neural networks.
Jul 10, 2023 Presented at ACL 2023 on hierarchical generalization in neural networks.

selected publications

  1. ACL
    How poor is the stimulus? Evaluating hierarchical generalization in neural networks trained on child-directed speech
    Aditya Yedetore, Tal LinzenRobert Frank, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Jul 2023