Research

Publications and Proceedings

Ma, X.,Gao, L., Xu, Q.(2023). ToMChallenges: A Principle-Guided Dataset and Diverse Evaluation Tasks for Exploring Theory of Mind</i> (2023) 11: 755–770. [Download] [Github] 🧒 🤖

Ma, X.,Gao, L.(2023). Evaluating Transformer Models and Human Behaviors on Chinese Character Naming. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2023) 11: 755–770. [Download] [Github] 🧒 🤖

Ma, X.,Gao, L.(2022). How do we get there? Evaluating transformer neural networks as cognitive models for English past tense inflection. In Proceedings of AACL-IJCNLP, (pp. 66-74) [Download] [Github] 🧒 🤖

Ma, X.,Chodorow, M., Valian, V. (2022). Intolerant Data: Testing Tolerance Principle. In In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society., (pp. 66-74) [Download] 🧒

Ma, X.,Chodorow, M., Valian, V. (2020). Learning Pronoun Case from Distributional Cues: Flexible Frames for Case Acquisition. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, (pp. 66-74) [Download] [Github] 🧒 🤖

Onnis, L., Truzzi, A., Ma, X.(2018). Language development and disorders: Possible genes and environment interactions. Research in developmental disabilities. [Download] 🧒

Conference Presence

2021.4	Ma,X., Why No Double Objective Construction in Shupamem at ACAF 51-52, Online	Handout	🌀
2021.2	Ma,X., Why No Double Objective Construction in Shupamem at DGfS 2021, Online	Handout	🌀
2021.1	Ma,X., Valian, V., Chodorow, M., Can ‘Let her open it’ explain ‘Her open it’ error? at LSA 2021, Online	Slides	🧒
2020.11	Ma,X., Chodorow, M., Valian, V.,Learning Pronoun Case from Distributional Cues: Flexible Frames for Case Acquisition at CMCL at EMNLP 2020, Online	Slides	🧒 🤖
2020.10	Ma,X., Valian, V., Chodorow, M.,Revisiting Children’s Pronoun Case Errors: A Comprehensive Corpus Analysis at Many Paths to Language (MPaL), Online	Poster	🧒
2019.11	Ma,X., Xu, Q., Valian, V., Chodorow, M.,Testing the Tolerance Principle on Corpus Data at BUCLD 44, Boston, USA	Poster	🧒 🤖
2019.5	Ma,X., Valian, V., Chodorow, M., The subject omission and pronoun avoidance in children with ASD: A Corpus Analysis at SALC 7, Aarhus, Denmark	Poster	🧒
2019.4	Ma,X., Valian, V., Chodorow, M., Children’s Pronoun Case Errors Revisit: A computational model on distributional cues at Lund Symposium on Cognition, Communication and Learning, Lund, Sweden	Slides	🧒 🤖
2018.7	Ma,X., Which is more effective in disambiguation: prosody or context? at Ambigo: Workshop, Göttingen, Germany	Poster	🚲
2018.6	Ma,X., A Systematic Review of Genetic Disorder and Language Development at IMPRS for the Language Sciences 2018, Nijmegen, the Netherlands	Poster	🧒
2018.2	Ma,X., Revisiting pronoun case errors in child language: a corpus analysis at AMLaP - Asia, Hyderabad, India	Poster	🧒

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