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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 10h

Excited to announce that our project "Deep language learning: from fiwGAN to LLMs" was awarded the Peder Sather Grant.

We're starting a multi-year collaboration between @uio.no and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 🇳🇴

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 2d

Preorder:

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Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 2d

AI is reaching the level of complexity where quantitative evaluations are often not feasible anymore.

The Artificial Humanities book outlines how humanistic methodology can be used to approach and evaluate AI today.

The decade of the humanities is here!

@ninabegus.bsky.social

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 2d

Preorder:

www.amazon.com/Artificial-H...

Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI

Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI [Beguš, Nina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI

www.amazon.com

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 2d

AI is reaching the level of complexity where quantitative evaluations are often not feasible anymore.

The Artificial Humanities book outlines how humanistic methodology can be used to approach and evaluate AI today.

The decade of the humanities is here!

@ninabegus.bsky.social

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 3d

Check out this amazing plenary talk by Stephan Meylan, a research scientist in our lab:

Modeling Language Acquisition as Speech Development

youtu.be/VP-tUVqmH8U&...

youtu.be

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 3d

Check out this amazing plenary talk by Stephan Meylan, a research scientist in our lab:

Modeling Language Acquisition as Speech Development

youtu.be/VP-tUVqmH8U&...

youtu.be

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 4d

Exciting talk in the linguistics department at UC Berkeley tomorrow!
@rtommccoy.bsky.social

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 7d

Our work on how to model language in humans, animals, and machines with more realistic deep learning approaches in the Communications of ACM today.
cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-...

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 7d

Our work on how to model language in humans, animals, and machines with more realistic deep learning approaches in the Communications of ACM today.
cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-...

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 9d

#DeepPhonology special session at AMP:

Bruno Ferenc Šegedin

"Evaluating Wasserstein GAN discriminators as models of human well-formedness judgments"

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

The plenary talk at the hashtag#DeepPhonology Special Session of the AMP 2025 on modeling language with no text from raw data.

"Modeling language acquisition as speech development"

Stephan Meylan (UC Berkeley)

Traditional approaches to language acquisition have conceived of the

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

The decade of the humanities is coming!

Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 13d

10 years after the initial idea, Artificial Humanities is here! Thanks so much to all who have preordered it. I hope you enjoy reading it and find this research approach as generative as I do. More to come!

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

I'll conclude by sketching the potential for rapid progress when we combine rich computational models of individual language processing with linguists' detailed characterizations of language structure.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

I'll show how this approach clarifies the communicative burden of adult listeners, the criteria for "successful" language productions, and the utility of videos of speakers' faces for phonological category induction.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

and understanding. I'll argue that treating the input and output of the child learner as raw signal streams (rather than symbols) yields many benefits in the treatment of speaker variability, prosody, multi-modal communication, and offers continuity on both ontogenetic and phylogenetic timescales.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

In this talk, I will outline an alternative approach (and corroborating deep neural network models) that treat the development of linguistic representations – especially phonological representations — as emergent solutions to the inferential challenges of real-time language production

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

emergence of speech as a secondary, auxiliary process with respect to the acquisition of an abstract, highly structured set of linguistic rules (e.g., Chomsky's competence-performance distinction; see also de Saussure's langue and parole).

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

The plenary talk at the hashtag#DeepPhonology Special Session of the AMP 2025 on modeling language with no text from raw data.

"Modeling language acquisition as speech development"

Stephan Meylan (UC Berkeley)

Traditional approaches to language acquisition have conceived of the

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

How much morphology and phonology does wav2vec 2.0 learns?

"Emergent morpho-phonological patterning in a model of spoken word recognition"
Jon Gauthier (UCSF), Matthew Leonard (UCSF), Canaan Breiss (USC), Edward Chang (UCSF)

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

Continuing with a talk on phrasal stress and LLMs:
"Can large language models predict English phrasal stress?"

Jinyoung Jo (Stanford), Sean Choi (Santa Clara U), Arto Anttila (Stanford)

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 12d

My avid reader, at almost 10 years-old: “Big boring book.”

They’ve pretty much grown together!

Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 13d

10 years after the initial idea, Artificial Humanities is here! Thanks so much to all who have preordered it. I hope you enjoy reading it and find this research approach as generative as I do. More to come!

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

The decade of the humanities is coming!

Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 13d

10 years after the initial idea, Artificial Humanities is here! Thanks so much to all who have preordered it. I hope you enjoy reading it and find this research approach as generative as I do. More to come!

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

Second talk on using deep learning for low resource ASR:

"Comparing Phonological Feature Sets for Low-Resource ASR"

Alessio Tosolini (Yale), Massimo Daul (NYU), Ayla Karakaş (Yale), Claire Bowern (Yale)

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 12d

First talk on using deep learning for automatic IPA (AutoIPA):

"AI-assisted analysis of phonological variation in English" Virginia Partridge (UMass Amherst), Joe Pater (UMass Amherst), Parth Bhangla (UMass Amherst), Ali Nirheche (UMass Amherst), Brandon Prickett (UMass Amherst)

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