activity
20242026
most citedProbing the contents of semantic representations from text, behavior, and brain data using the psychNorms metabase

3 citations · 3 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

6 papers

cs.AI2026

Cheap, open agents make LLM pollution harder to mitigate

Raluca Rilla, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Rui Mata +1

Large Language Model (LLM) pollution occurs when synthetic responses contaminate data intended to capture human behavior. High deployment costs have so far limited the risk posed b…

cs.CL2026

The "Small World of Words" German Free-Association Norms

Samuel Aeschbach, Rui Mata, Kaidi Lõo +2

Free-association norms provide essential empirical data for investigating linguistic, semantic, and cultural phenomena in the cognitive sciences. Although large-scale norms exist f…

cs.CL2026

Where meaning lives: Layer-wise accessibility of psycholinguistic features in encoder and decoder language models

Taisiia Tikhomirova, Dirk U. Wulff

Understanding where transformer language models encode psychologically meaningful aspects of meaning is essential for both theory and practice. We conduct a systematic layer-wise p…

cs.AI2025

Addressing Longstanding Challenges in Cognitive Science with Language Models

Dirk U. Wulff, Rui Mata

Cognitive science faces ongoing challenges in research integration, formalization, conceptual clarity, and other areas, in part due to its multifaceted and interdisciplinary nature…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Probing the contents of semantic representations from text, behavior, and brain data using the psychNorms metabase

Zak Hussain, Rui Mata, Ben R. Newell +1

Semantic representations are integral to natural language processing, psycholinguistics, and artificial intelligence. Although often derived from internet text, recent years have s…

cs.CL2024

Measuring individual semantic networks: A simulation study

Samuel Aeschbach, Rui Mata, Dirk U. Wulff

Accurately capturing individual differences in semantic networks is fundamental to advancing our mechanistic understanding of semantic memory. Past empirical attempts to construct…