Michael Hahn
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I'm a PhD student at Stanford in the Linguistics Department and the Stanford NLP Group. I am interested in computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and applying computational techniques to the study of human language processing. Before I came to Stanford, I was at the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh, working with Frank Keller. Before that, I studied Mathematics and Computational Linguistics in Tübingen. |
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Publications
In Preparation
| 2020 | |
| [2] | Modeling word and morpheme order in natural language as an efficient tradeoff of memory and surprisal , 2020. [bibtex] [preprint] [code] |
| 2018 | |
| [1] | Modeling Task Effects in Human Reading with Neural Attention , 2018. [bibtex] [preprint] [code] |
Refereed Articles and Conference Papers
| 2020 | |
| [18] | Universals of word order reflect optimization of grammars for efficient communication , In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. [bibtex] [pdf] [code] [supplement] |
| [17] | Theoretical Limitations of Self-Attention in Neural Sequence Models , In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume 8, 2020. [bibtex] [pdf] [preprint] [doi] |
| 2019 | |
| [16] | Tabula nearly rasa: Probing the linguistic knowledge of character-level neural language models trained on unsegmented text , In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume 7, 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [preprint] [code] |
| [15] | Estimating Predictive Rate-Distortion Curves via Neural Variational Inference , In Entropy, volume 21, 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [code] [reviews] |
| [14] | Character-based Surprisal as a Model of Human Reading in the Presence of Errors , In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2019. [bibtex] [pdf] [preprint] |
| 2018 | |
| [13] | An information-theoretic explanation of adjective ordering preferences , In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [code] |
| [12] | Wreath Products of Distributive Forest Algebras , In Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [preprint] [code] |
| 2016 | |
| [11] | Modeling Human Reading with Neural Attention , In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016. [bibtex] [pdf] [code] |
| 2015 | |
| [10] | Visibly Counter Languages and the Structure of NC1 , In Proceedings of Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS) 2015, 2015. [bibtex] [pdf] |
| [9] | Henkin Semantics for Reasoning with Natural Language , In Journal of Language Modeling, volume 3, 2015. [bibtex] [pdf] [code] |
| 2014 | |
| [8] | Predication and NP Structure in an Omnipredicative Language: The Case of Khoekhoe , In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Stefan Müller, ed.), CSLI Publications, 2014. [bibtex] [pdf] |
| [7] | On deriving semantic representations from dependencies: A practical approach for evaluating meaning in learner corpora , In Dependency Theory (Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajicová, Leo Wanner, eds.), IOS Press, 2014. [bibtex] |
| 2013 | |
| [6] | CoMeT: Integrating different levels of linguistic modeling for meaning assessment , In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2013. [bibtex] [pdf] |
| [5] | Word Order Variation in Khoekhoe , In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Stefan Müller, ed.), 2013. [bibtex] [pdf] |
| 2012 | |
| [4] | Evaluating the Meaning of Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions: A Semantics-Based Approach , In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA7), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf] |
| [3] | Arabic Relativization Patterns: A Unified HPSG Analysis , In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf] |
| 2011 | |
| [2] | Null Conjuncts and Bound Pronouns in Arabic , In The Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2011. [bibtex] |
| [1] | On deriving semantic representations from dependencies: A practical approach for evaluating meaning in learner corpora , In Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2011), 2011. [bibtex] [pdf] |
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Presentations
| 2020 | |
| [3] | Theoretical Limitations of Self-Attention in Neural Sequence Models , 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. |
| [2] | Tabula nearly rasa: Probing the linguistic knowledge of character-level neural language models trained on unsegmented text , 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. |
| [1] | Lexical Effects in Structural Forgetting: Evidence for Experience-Based Accounts and a Neural Network Model , 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, 2020 (oral). [slides][abstract] |
| 2019 | |
| [3] | Character-based Surprisal as a Model of Human Reading in the Presence of Errors , 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2019 (oral). [slides] |
| [2] | Crosslinguistic word orders enable an efficient tradeoff of memory and surprisal , 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2019 (oral, 7% acceptance). [slides] |
| [1] | Testing Functional Explanations of Word Order Universals , 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2019 (oral, 7% acceptance). [slides] |
| 2018 | |
| [4] | Testing Functional Explanations of Word Order Universals , California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, 2018. [slides] |
| [3] | An information-theoretic explanation of adjective ordering preferences , CogSci, 2018. [poster] |
| [2] | Wreath Products of Distributive Forest Algebras , LICS, 2018. [slides] |
| [2] | Mutual Information Impacts Adjective Ordering Across Languages , CUNY, 2018. [poster] |
| [1] | Exploring Adjective Ordering Preferences via Artificial Language Learning , CUNY, 2018. [poster] |
| 2017 | |
| [2] | Exploring Adjective Ordering Preferences via Artificial Language Learning , California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, 2017. |
| [1] | Modeling Task Effects in Human Reading with Neural Attention , CUNY, 2017. [slides] |
| 2016 | |
| [1] | Modeling Human Reading with Neural Attention , EMNLP, 2016. [slides] |
Other material
Vowels in Proto-Modern South Arabian (2012)
This manuscript presents some preliminary ideas regarding the reconstruction of Proto-Modern South Arabian, which is of interest for the reconstruction of Proto-Semitic as a whole. A more thorough analysis will have to wait for a comprehensive documentation of Soqotri, Hobyot, and of dialectal variation within the better-documented languages Mehri and Jibbali.- Focus in Old Chinese (2011)
- Gentzens Konsistenzbeweis für die Arithmetik (2011)
Contact and CV
E-mail: mhahn2 ÄT stanford DOT edu