I am a master's student in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University, working with Professor Amir Zeldes and Professor Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox.
Research
Broadly, my research interests include:
– Developing computational models that approximate human real-time language processing.
– Understanding where human and LLM generalization diverge.
– Computational models of discourse, with a focus on salience.
Publications & Preprints
What Transformer Attention Mechanism Provides the Best Fit for Human Reading Times?
Lanni Bu, Xiulin Yang, Christian Clark, Ethan Wilcox.
Submitted to the 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (under review).
UD-English-CHILDES: A Collected Resource of Gold and Silver Universal Dependencies Trees for Child Language Interactions
Xiulin Yang, Zhuoxuan Ju, Lanni Bu, Zoey Liu, Nathan Schneider.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW) at SyntaxFest 2025.
Other Projects
Dependency-Based and Constituency-Based Inductive Biases for BabyLM: Comparison and Analysis
Final Project for Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Georgetown University, 2024.
Curriculum Vitae
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