Alex Warstadt

@a_stadt

Asst Prof. @ UCSD | PI of LeM🍋N Lab | Former Postdoc at ETH Zürich, PhD @ NYU | computational linguistics, NLProc, CogSci, pragmatics | he/him 🏳️‍🌈

alexwarstadt.github.io

Joined September 2016

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Alex Warstadt
@a_stadt
Nov 8, 2024
I'm excited to announce my new lab: UCSD's Learning Meaning and Natural Language Lab. a.k.a. LeM🍋N Lab! And 📢WE ARE RECRUITING📢 PhD students to join us in sunny San Diego in either Linguistics OR Data Science. Apply by Dec 4: connect.grad.ucsd.edu/apply/ More about the lab👇
Alex Warstadt
@a_stadt
Jul 31, 2025
So excited this work was recognized! We've only scratched the surface of prosodic typology, and I'm even more excited to probe deeper 🔬
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
@weGotlieb
Jul 30, 2025
Honored to have received a Senior Area Chair award at #ACL2025 for our Prosodic Typology paper. Huge shout out to the whole team: @CuiDing_CL, @tpimentelms, @a_stadt, @tamaregev!
Alex Warstadt
@a_stadt
May 14, 2025
So excited about this line of work 👨‍🔬 We use LLMs as a tool 🔧 to better understand linguistic typology: Their ability to learn complex probability distributions 📊 gives quantitative insights into the different strategies languages use to transmit information through prosody 🎶
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
@weGotlieb
May 13, 2025
⭐🗣️New preprint out: 🗣️⭐ “Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent” with @CuiDing_CL, Giovanni Acampa, @tpimentelms, @a_stadt, @tamaregev: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07659
Alex Warstadt
@a_stadt
Nov 20, 2024
I'm in need of NINE emergency reviews for ACL ARR. Over 1/3 of my reviewers are nonresponsive, I think that's a personal record 🙃 Please let me know if you can take on some of these!!
Alex Warstadt
@a_stadt
Nov 6, 2024
@IonutCons1 has an account now! He deserves at least one new follow for every GPU-day he spent training LMs for this paper!
Alex Warstadt
@a_stadt
Nov 4, 2024
👶NEW PAPER🪇 Children are better at learning a second language (L2) than adults. In a new paper (led by the awesome Ionut Constantinescu) we ask: 1. "Do LMs also have a 'Critical Period' (CP) for language acquisition?" and 2. "What can LMs tell us about the CP in humans?"