Najoung Kim
https://najoung.kim
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- happy to have finally made a pilgrimage to ucsd, a special place for some of us :)
- My lab at BU is recruiting PhD students and possibly a postdoc this year! We study humans & machines, centered around topics like meaning, generalization, evaluation methods and design, and the nature of computation and representation that underlie language and cognition. 🫴🫴
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- for something to be considered creative, it has to be semantically/pragmatically felicitous!!!
- honored to have given a plenary address at the Society for Language Development annual symposium titled "Whence insights? The value of delineating human and machine CogSci". It's a synthesis of a few years of thoughts, recently concretized with @aditya-yedetore.bsky.social and @kanishka.bsky.social
- 👾 Full-time research assistant position (1 year) with @sebschu.bsky.social and me! 👾 We're looking for someone to join the research agent evaluation team, starting Fall 2025. Application link to be available soon, but feel free to send us your CV and/or come talk to us at #ACL2025. 🧵
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- ever since VLMs were a thing i've been interested in how the additional visual modality changes language in meaningful ways. after negative findings after negative findings, excited to report this result! proud of our junior authors for digging into this 🐸
- green carded finally 💚💚
- Seeing an experiment and thinking "but have they tried X? what if we do Y?" is a key part of research and a start to new discoveries. RExBench tests if coding agents can implement new extensions. It complements recent evals (eg PaperBench from OpenAI ) on replication! See 👇 for details
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- i'll be in copenhagen for a few days, lmk if you want to get coffee! will be around most of Thurs and early Sat. alternatively you can also come see me give a talk (at a museum apparently) on Fri: cphnlp.github.io
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- Reposted by Najoung KimVery sorry to learn of the passing of LouAnn Gerken, who had such an impact on our understanding of the acquisition of speech sounds and sound patterns obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...
- hello NAACL friends I'm giving a keynote today at RepL4NLP at 1:30PM local time, come say hi! I'll mostly be musing about things with light research discussions
- in liminal state, as correctly described by a colleague
- so very excited that naomi is joining!!! a huge win for cds 💖
- "Gaming Linguists" good bigram
- Repost appreciated! 🙏 ACL 2025 Ling theory & Cognitive modeling track is looking for emergency reviewers. The emergency review period is between 3/18-26, and these reviewers will be excluded from the ARR cycle. If you're interested, please sign up here! docs.google.com/forms/d/1fH7...
- have many tasks but immobilized by car
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- this is a first... suffering maximized...
- why say "bad" when you can say "ungood"
- at the point of the semester where emergency todo lists inside of a todo list is made
- so proud of Hayley Ross for getting a best paper award at GenBench this year!! 🎉🪅🎉 I'm sure Kate would be too :) check out our paper and share if you think homemade cats are cats! arxiv.org/abs/2410.17482
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