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Freda Shi
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Professor, programmer, and hacker @UWCheritonCS and @VectorInst excited about computational linguistics, intuition, and grounding.
Waterloo, ON
cs.uwaterloo.ca/~fhs
Joined December 2016
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    Freda Shi
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    Dec 16, 2025
    The first workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics, collocated with ACL 2026, is welcoming submissions! Topics of interest include but are not limited to computational methods for developmental linguistics and language model learning dynamics. Program details below:
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    Freda Shi
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    Mar 28, 2025
    I received a review like this five years ago. Itā€™s probably the right time now to share it with everyone who wrote or got random discouraging reviews from ICML/ACL.
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    Freda Shi
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    Jun 21, 2023
    Personal update: I'll be starting in July 2024 as an Assistant Professor @UWCheritonCS and a Faculty Member @VectorInst! Looking forward to working with all the amazing folks! Prospective students: if you are interested in NLP and/or comp. linguistics, please consider applying!
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    Freda Shi
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    Jun 17, 2024
    šŸšØLong thread warning: excited to share that I defended my PhD thesis earlier in May! Here's my thesis, Learning Language Structures through Grounding: arxiv.org/abs/2406.09662 1/
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    Freda Shi
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    Oct 11, 2022
    Large language models show reasoning abilities in English with chain-of-thought prompting - how are their multilingual reasoning abilities? New preprintšŸ“„: Language models are multilingual chain-of-thought reasoners. arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03057 (1/n)
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    Freda Shi
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    Nov 7, 2025
    Excited to share that LingGym wins an Outstanding Paper Award at #EMNLP2025! Kudos to Changbing and Franklin for all their hard work, and of course the best @lukeZhu20 - we missed you!
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    Freda Shi
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    Nov 3, 2025
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    LingGym: How Far Are LLMs from Thinking Like Field Linguists? (w/ Changbing, Franklin, @lukeZhu20) aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-maiā€¦ LLM meta-linguistic reasoning on IGT and grammatical descriptions of 18 documented low resource & typologically diverse languages. Thanks to field linguists!
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    Freda Shi
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    Sep 24, 2021
    Honored to receive the 2021 Google PhD fellowship in natural language processing. Thanks @GoogleAI for the support! Kudos to my advisors and mentors: thanks for teaching me everything over the past years, and for showing me concrete examples of best researchers---yourselves!
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    Google AI
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    Sep 23, 2021
    Continuing our tradition of supporting outstanding graduate students in their pursuit of research in computer science and related fields, we congratulate our 13th annual PhD Fellowship Program recipients! See the list of 2021 Fellowship recipients below: goo.gle/3zCuHA3
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    Freda Shi
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    Sep 24, 2024
    Iā€™m extremely honored to be appointed as a CIFAR AI chair and grateful to everyone who offered generous help along the path. Even more exciting news that makes today super special to me: I just officially received my doctorate hood!
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    Sep 24, 2024
    Replying to @CIFAR_News
    Freda Shi (@fredahshi @UWaterloo @UWCheritonCS) works on computational linguistics and natural language processing, striving towards a deeper understanding of human language comprehension in order to make more efficient and effective AI systems.
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    Freda Shi
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    Nov 14, 2023
    šŸšØ(Not Really) Old Paper AlertšŸšØ: sharing our 2-year-old NeurIPS paper that Iā€™m still quite excited about. We learn grounded, neuro-symbolic CCGs from multi-modal data and demonstrate nearly perfect compositional generalization to unseen sentences and scenes. (1/)
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    Freda Shi
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    Nov 3, 2022
    Late post but letā€™s do this! Happy to share our #EMNLP2022 work on translating natural language to executable code with execution-aware minimum Bayes risk decoding šŸ“Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2204.11454ā€¦ šŸ“‡Code: github.com/facebookresearā€¦ šŸ“¦Data (codex output):dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/mbr-exec/mbr-eā€¦ (1/n)
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    Freda Shi
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    Jul 24, 2025
    I'll be at #ACL2025NLP from next Monday to Wednesday! Here's a snapshot of my first batch of papers as the last author, plus helping the amazing lab member @xLuo_CompLing to present her TACL work after being in the audience for 3 times. DM me if you'd like to catch up in person!
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    Freda Shi
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    Apr 4, 2020
    Just got a paper w/ scores 4, 4, 4 rejected by #acl2020nlp, but the comments from the meta-reviewer and all reviewers are super, super constructive. Would like to say thank you to them all!
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    Freda Shi
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    Aug 8, 2024
    I'm heading to Bangkok for ACL 2024āœˆ Looking forward to meeting old and new friends. I'd also be glad to chat about PhD opportunities in my group at the University of Waterloo, and job search experience in Canada. Feel free to send me an email to secure a slot! 1/
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    Freda Shi
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    Oct 8, 2025
    I promise I'll submit something to the 3rd COLM (please do have it!) The papers look amazing every time, and Iā€™ve already regretted missing out twice in a row.
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