3 papers
cs.CL2026
From sunblock to softblock: Analyzing the correlates of neology in published writing and on social media
Maria Ryskina, Matthew R. Gormley, Kyle Mahowald +3
Living languages are shaped by a host of conflicting internal and external evolutionary pressures. While some of these pressures are universal across languages and cultures, others…
cs.CL2025
Language models align with brain regions that represent concepts across modalities
Maria Ryskina, Greta Tuckute, Alexander Fung +2
Cognitive science and neuroscience have long faced the challenge of disentangling representations of language from representations of conceptual meaning. As the same problem arises…
cs.CL2025
Elements of World Knowledge (EWoK): A Cognition-Inspired Framework for Evaluating Basic World Knowledge in Language Models
Anna A. Ivanova, Aalok Sathe, Benjamin Lipkin +17
The ability to build and reason about models of the world is essential for situated language understanding. But evaluating world modeling capabilities in modern AI systems -- espec…