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Statistical Models of Language
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Dedhia, B., Chang, M., Snell, J. C., Griffiths, T. L., & Jha, N. K. (2023). Im-Promptu: In-context composition from image prompts. (preprint)
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Tian, Y., Ravichander, A., Qin, L., Bras, R. L., Marjieh, R., Peng, N., Choi, Y., Griffiths, T. L., & Brahman, F. (2023). MacGyver: Are large language models creative problem solvers? (preprint)
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Hawkins, R. D., Franke, M., Frank, M. C., Goldberg, A. E., Smith, K., Griffiths, T. L., & Goodman, N. D. (2023). From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention. Psychological Review. (pdf)
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Liu, R., Yen, H., Marjieh, R., Griffiths, T. L., & Krishna, R. (2023). Improving interpersonal communication by simulating audiences with language models. (preprint)
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Marjieh, R., Sucholutsky, I., van Rijn, P., Jacoby, N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). What language reveals about perception: Distilling psychophysical knowledge from large language models. 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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McCoy, R. T., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Modeling rapid language learning by distilling Bayesian priors into artificial neural networks. (preprint)
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McCoy, R. T., Yao, S., Friedman, D., Hardy, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Embers of autoregression: Understanding large language models through the problem they are trained to solve. (preprint)
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Peng, A., Sucholutsky, I., Li, B., Sumers, T., Griffiths, T., Andreas, J., & Shah, J. (2023). Learning with language-guided state abstractions. RSS Workshop on Social Intelligence in Humans and Robots. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T. L., & Hawkins, R. D. (2023). Reconciling truthfulness and relevance as epistemic and decision-theoretic utility. Psychological Review. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., Hawkins, R. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Show or tell? Exploring when (and why) teaching with language outperforms demonstration. Cognition, 232, 105326. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Yao, S., Narasimhan, K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents. (preprint)
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Yao, S., Yu, D., Zhao, J., Shafran, I., Griffiths, T. L., Cao, Y., & Narasimhan, K. (2023). Tree of thoughts: Deliberate problem solving with large language models. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 37. (pdf)
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Kumar, S., Correa, C. G., Dasgupta, I., Marjieh, R., Hu, M. Y., Hawkins, R.D., Daw, N. D., Cohen, J. D., Narasimhan, K. R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36. (preprint)
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Kumar, S., Sumers, T. R., Yamakoshi, T., Goldstein, A., Hasson, U., Norman, K. A., Griffiths, T. L., Hawkins, R. D., Nastase, S. A. (2022). Reconstructing the cascade of language processing in the brain using the internal computations of a transformer-based language model. (preprint)
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Marjieh, R., Sucholutsky, I., Sumers, T. R., Jacoby, N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Predicting Human Similarity Judgments Using Large Language Models. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Murthy, S. K., Hawkins, R. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Shades of confusion: Lexical uncertainty modulates ad hoc coordination in an interactive communication task. Cognition, 225, 105152. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Hawkins, R. D., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T. L., & Hadfield-Menell, D. (2022). How to talk so AI will learn: Instructions, descriptions, and autonomy. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36. (pdf)
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Yamakoshi, T., Griffiths, T.L., Hawkins, R.D. (2022) Probing BERT's priors with serial reproduction chains. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). (pdf)
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Barnett, S. A., Griffiths, T. L., Hawkins, R. D. (2022). A pragmatic account of the weak evidence effect. Open Mind, 6, 169-182. (pdf)
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Hawkins, R. D., Liu, I., Goldberg, A. E., Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Respect the code: Speakers expect novel conventions to generalize within but not across social group boundaries. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Meylan, S. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). The Challenges of Large-Scale, Web-Based Language Datasets: Word Length and Predictability Revisited. Cognitive Science, 45(6), e12983. (pdf)
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Meylan, S. C., Nair, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Evaluating models of robust word recognition with serial reproduction. Cognition, 210, 104553. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Hawkins, R. D., Ho, M. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Extending rational models of communication from beliefs to actions. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., Hawkins, R. D., Narasimhan, K. R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Learning rewards from linguistic feedback. Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
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Hawkins, R. D.*, Yamakoshi, T.*, Griffiths, T. L., & Goldberg, A. E. (2020). Investigating representations of verb bias in neural language models. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). (pdf)
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Hawkins, R. D., Goodman, N. D., Goldberg, A. E., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Generalizing meanings from partners to populations: Hierarchical inference supports convention formation on networks. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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McCoy, R. T., Grant, E., Smolensky, P., Griffiths, T. L., & Linzen, T. (2020). Universal linguistic inductive biases via meta-learning. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Nematzadeh, A., Shekarchi, Z., Griffiths, T. L., & Stevenson, S. (2020). Competition in Cross-situational Word Learning: A Computational Study. (preprint)
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Peterson, J. C., Chen, D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Parallelograms revisited: Exploring the limitations of vector space models for simple analogies. Cognition, 205, 104440. (pdf)
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Nematzadeh, A., Burns, K., Grant, E., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Evaluating theory of mind in question answering. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. (pdf)
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Peterson, J. C., Soulos, P., Nematzadeh, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). Learning hierarchical visual representations in deep neural networks using hierarchical linguistic labels. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Gates, M. A., Veuthey, T. L., Tessler, M. H., Smith, K. A., Gerstenberg, T., Bayet, L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2018). Tiptoeing around it: Inference from absence in potentially offensive speech. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Meylan, S. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Word forms - not just their lengths - are optimized for efficient communication. (preprint)
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de Heer, W. A., Huth, A. G., Griffiths, T. L., Gallant, J. L., & Theunissen, F. E. (2017). The hierarchical cortical organization of human speech processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(27), 6539-6557. (pdf)
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Whalen, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Adding population structure to models of language evolution by iterated learning. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 76, 1-6. (pdf)
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Grant, E., Nematzadeh, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). How can memory-augmented neural networks pass a false-belief task? Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Nematzadeh, A., Meylan, S. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Evaluating vector-space models of word representation, or the unreasonable effectiveness of counting words near other words. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Chen, D., Peterson, J. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Evaluating vector-space models of analogy. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Huth, A. G., de Heer, W. A., Griffiths, T. L., Theunissen, F. E., & Gallant, J. L. (2016). Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile the human cerebral cortex. Nature, 532 453-458. (pdf)
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Hsu, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Sampling assumptions affect use of indirect negative evidence in language learning PLOS One, 11(6). (pdf)
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Cibelli, E., Xu, Y., Austerweil, J. L., Griffiths, T. L., & Regier, T. (2016). The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and probabilistic inference: Evidence from the domain of color. PLOS One, 11(7). (pdf)
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Abbott, J. T., Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Random walks on semantic networks can resemble optimal foraging. Psychological Review, 122, 558-569. (pdf)
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Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., Plunkett, D., Gopnik, A., & Baldwin, D. (2015). Inferring action structure and causal relationships in continuous sequences of human action. Cognitive Psychology, 76, 30-77. (pdf)
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Meylan, S. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). A Bayesian framework for learning words from multiword utterances. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Rafferty, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2014). Analyzing the rate at which languages lose the influence of a common ancestor. Cognitive Science, 38, 1406-1431. (pdf)
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Maurits, L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Tracing the roots of syntax with Bayesian phylogenetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 13576-13581. (pdf)
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Bourgin, D. D., Abbott, J. T., Griffiths, T. L., Smith, K. A., & Vul, E. (2014). Empirical evidence for Markov chain Monte Carlo in memory search. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., Goldwater, S., & Morgan, J. (2013). A role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition. Psychological Review, 120, 751-778. (pdf)
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Rafferty, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Ettlinger, M. (2013). Greater learnability is not sufficient to produce cultural universals. Cognition, 129, 70-87. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., Myers, E. B., White, K. S., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2013). Word-level information influences phonetic learning in adults and infants. Cognition, 127, 427-438. (pdf)
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Bouchard-Cote, A., Hall, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2013) Automated reconstruction of ancient languages using probabilistic models of sound change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (pdf)
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Abbott, J. T., Austerweil, J. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). Human memory search as a random walk in a semantic network. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 25. (pdf)
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Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., Johnson, M. (2011). Producing power-law distributions and damping word frequencies with two-stage language models. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 12, 2335-2382. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., Myers, E., White, K., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2011). Learners use word-level statistics in phonetic category acquisition. Proceedings of the 35th Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Rethinking language: How probabilities shape the words we use. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 3825-3826. (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L., & Reali, F. (2011). Modelling minds as well as populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. (pdf)
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Buchsbaum, D., Canini, K. R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2011). Segmenting and recognizing human action using low-level video features. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.(pdf)
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Rafferty, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Ettlinger, M. (2011) Exploring the relationship between learnability and linguistic universals. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics at ACL 2011. (pdf)
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Frank, M., Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2010). Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation. Cognition, 117, 107-125.(pdf)
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Rosen-Zvi, M., Chemudugunta, C., Griffiths, T. L., Smyth, P., & Steyvers, M. (2010). Learning author-topic models from text corpora. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 28(1), Article 4. (pdf)
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Burkett, D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Iterated learning of multiple languages from multiple teachers. Evolang 8. (pdf)
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Blei, D. M., Griffiths, T. L., & Jordan, M. I. (2010). The nested Chinese restaurant process and Bayesian nonparametric inference of topic hierarchies. Journal of the ACM, 57, 1-30.(pdf)
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Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Words as alleles: Connecting language evolution with Bayesian learners to models of genetic drift. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 277, 429-436. (pdf)
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Rafferty, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Optimal language learning: The importance of starting representative. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Hsu, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Differential use of implicit negative evidence in generative and discriminative language learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2009). The influence of categories on perception: Explaining the perceptual magnet effect as optimal statistical inference. Psychological Review, 116, 752-782. (pdf)
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Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2009). A Bayesian framework for word segmentation: Exploring the effects of context. Cognition, 112, 21-54. (pdf)
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Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). The evolution of linguistic frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning. Cognition, 111, 317-328. (pdf)
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Canini, K. R., Shi, L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Online inference of topics with Latent Dirichlet Allocation. AISTATS. (pdf)
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Levy, R., Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21. (pdf)
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Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., Gopnik, A., & Baldwin, D. (2009). Learning from actions and their consequences: Inferring causal variables from continuous sequences of human action. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., & Morgan, J. L. (2009). Learning phonetic categories by learning a lexicon. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Bouchard-Cote, A., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2009). Improved reconstruction of protolanguage word forms. Proceedings of the North American Conference on Computational Linguistics (NAACL'09). (pdf)
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Dowman, M., Savova, V., Griffiths, T. L., Kording, K. P., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Purver, M. (2008). A probabilistic model of meetings that combines words and discourse features. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 16, 1238-1248. (pdf)
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Bouchard-Cote, A., Liang, P., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (2008). A probabilistic approach to language change. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20. (pdf)
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Steyvers, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Rational analysis as a link between human memory and information retrieval. In M. Oaksford and N. Chater (Eds.). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
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Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). The evolution of frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Firl, A. (2007). Google and the mind: Predicting fluency with PageRank. Psychological Science, 18, 1069-1076. (pdf)
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Iwata, T., Saito, K., Ueda, N., Stromsten, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Parametric embedding for class visualization. Neural Computation, 19, 2536-2556. (pdf)
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Johnson, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Goldwater, S (2007). Adaptor grammars: A framework for specifying compositional nonparametric Bayesian models. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19. (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Topics in semantic representation. Psychological Review, 114,211-244. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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Steyvers, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Probabilistic topic models. In T. L.andauer, D. S. McNamara, S. Dennis, & W. Kintsch (Eds.), Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2007). Distributional cues to word segmentation: Context is important. Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pdf)
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Bouchard, A., Liang, P., Griffiths, T., & Klein, D. (2007). A probabilistic approach to diachronic phonology. Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL). (pdf)
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Frank, M. C., Goldwater, S., Mansinghka, V., Griffiths, T., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Feldman, N. H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). A rational account of the perceptual magnet effect. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Goldwater, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07). (pdf)
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Johnson, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Goldwater, S. (2007). Bayesian inference for PCFGs via Markov chain Monte Carlo. Proceedings of the North American Conference on Computational Linguistics (NAACL'07). (pdf)
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Steyvers, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Dennis, S. (2006). Probabilistic inference in human semantic memory. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10, 327-334. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2006). Interpolating between types and tokens by estimating power law generators. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18. (pdf) (note: this version of the paper is slightly modified from the hardcopy proceedings)
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Purver, M., Kording, K. P., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2006). Unsupervised topic modelling for multi-party spoken discourse. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (pdf)
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Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2006). Contextual dependencies in unsupervised word segmentation. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.(pdf)
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Iwata, T., Saito, K., Ueda, N., Stromsten, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2005). Parametric embedding for class visualization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17. (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., Blei, D. M., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2005). Integrating topics and syntax. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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Blei, D. M., Griffiths, T. L., Jordan, M. I., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). Hierarchical topic models and the nested Chinese restaurant process. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16. (pdf) (winner of the Best Student Paper prize)
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Steyvers, M., Smyth, P., Rosen-Zvi, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2004). Probabilistic Author-Topic models for information discovery. The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (pdf) (demo) (topic modeling toolbox)
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Rosen-Zvi, M., Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Smyth, P. (2004). The Author-Topic Model for authors and documents. 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. (pdf) (demo) (topic modeling toolbox)
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Griffiths, T. L., & Steyvers, M. (2004). Finding scientific topics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 5228-5235. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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Griffiths, T. L., & Steyvers, M. (2003). Prediction and semantic association. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
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Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2002). Using vocabulary knowledge in Bayesian multinomial estimation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 14. (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L., & Steyvers, M. (2002). A probabilistic approach to semantic representation. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)

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