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carolynanderson.bsky.social
Wellesley CS professor and computational linguist. Studies meaning with computational and experimental tools.
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Our new reasoning benchmark based on the NPR Sunday Puzzle's weekly challenge shows that o1 / o3-mini-high are significantly better at verbal reasoning than other models (i.e. R1)-- more below!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Last day to submit to SCiL 2025!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Today is the last day to submit to SCiL 2025 (deadline is midnight anywhere on earth)! We look forward to your submissions! Submission instructions can be found here: wellesley-easel-lab.github.io/SCiL2025/ind...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

8 more days to submit to SCiL 2025! If you have a neat modeling technique, experimental design, or other research method for computational pragmatics, please share it with the community by submitting a lightning talk! It doesn't have to be novel, just useful!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

excited to say that our Substance Beats Style paper was accepted to NAACL! We investigate *why* student-written programming prompts don't work well for LLMs, and find that while students think it's because of technical vocabulary gaps, it's actually information content that matters

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

There are now two weeks to finish your SCiL 2025 submission! Especially excited to see work submitted to the Special Symposium on Computational Pragmatics!

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Ten more days to submit to SCiL 2025! We accept the following kinds of submissions: + Eight page papers or two-page abstracts on original research + Abstracts on work previously presented at a venue with a distinct scope and audience from SCiL + Methodology lightning talk proposals

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know that SCiL accepts both abstracts (2 pages) and full papers (8 pages)? Both submission types will be considered for talks and posters. This year, we are also looking for lightning talks on methods in computational pragmatics!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

There's still plenty of time to put together a submission to SCiL 2025!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The deadline for SCiL 2025 is in just a few weeks (Jan. 24th)! SCiL welcomes submissions on computational and mathematical approaches in any area of linguistics. SCiL 2025 will also include a special symposium on computational pragmatics! See the Call for Papers for more information:

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

excited to be going to the LSA for the first time in a couple of years!

submitted 421 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to release MultiPL-T, our method for generating semi-synthetic training data for low-resource programming languages! We achieve SOTA performance for Racket, OCaml, and Lua using a dataset of unit test validated translations of Python programs

submitted 560 days ago • 1 comment