Gaurav Kamath
@grvkamath.bsky.social
PhD-ing at McGill Linguistics + Mila, working under Prof. Siva Reddy. Mostly computational linguistics, with some NLP; habitually disappointed Arsenal fan
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Gaurav Kamath
@grvkamath.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor.
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Reposted by Gaurav Kamath
🤖 🧠 NEW PAPER ON COGSCI & AI 🧠 🤖
Recent neural networks capture properties long thought to require symbols: compositionality, productivity, rapid learning
So what role should symbols play in theories of the mind? For our answer...read on!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05776
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Recent neural networks capture properties long thought to require symbols: compositionality, productivity, rapid learning
So what role should symbols play in theories of the mind? For our answer...read on!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05776
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August 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🤖 🧠 NEW PAPER ON COGSCI & AI 🧠 🤖
Recent neural networks capture properties long thought to require symbols: compositionality, productivity, rapid learning
So what role should symbols play in theories of the mind? For our answer...read on!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05776
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Recent neural networks capture properties long thought to require symbols: compositionality, productivity, rapid learning
So what role should symbols play in theories of the mind? For our answer...read on!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.05776
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Reposted by Gaurav Kamath
Using congressional speeches as a corpus, researchers quantify how younger and older adults adopt new meanings for words as language changes. Older people may be a bit slower to change, but can show considerable linguistic flexibility. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Using congressional speeches as a corpus, researchers quantify how younger and older adults adopt new meanings for words as language changes. Older people may be a bit slower to change, but can show considerable linguistic flexibility. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Gaurav Kamath
My latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social looks at the question of how new meanings for words spread in the population.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
Why we need to be more chill about language change
It appears that our vocabulary is entrained with the Zeitgeist, whether we like it or not
www.thenewworld.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social looks at the question of how new meanings for words spread in the population.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor.
w/ Michelle Yang, @sivareddyg.bsky.social , @msonderegger.bsky.social and @dallascard.bsky.social👇(1/12)
w/ Michelle Yang, @sivareddyg.bsky.social , @msonderegger.bsky.social and @dallascard.bsky.social👇(1/12)
July 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor.
w/ Michelle Yang, @sivareddyg.bsky.social , @msonderegger.bsky.social and @dallascard.bsky.social👇(1/12)
w/ Michelle Yang, @sivareddyg.bsky.social , @msonderegger.bsky.social and @dallascard.bsky.social👇(1/12)