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Sathvik in Singapore for EMNLP

December 05, 2023 Linguistics

Sathvik Nair, PhD student in Linguistics, standing in front of a brick wall painted colorfully with geometric shapes, smiling broadly.

On surprisal in reading subwords.

December 6-10, Sathvik Nair is in Singapore for the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference, where he will present "Words, Subwords, and Morphemes: What Really Matters in the Surprisal-Reading Time Relationship?," joint work with Philip Resnik. Alongside Sathvik's poster will be several other presentations involving Maryland alums Aaron Steven White *15 (Rochester) and Allyson Ettinger *18 (Allen Institute for AI), plus former CS undergrad Chenglei Si and his advisor Jordan Boyd-Graber. Allyson is also leading a workshop on broader NLP research narratives.