Discovering Phonological Representations: The Case of French Liaison
Annika Heuser, 2025
To be published in Proceedings of the 49th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49)
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
- M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
- B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
Work experience
- Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
- GitHub University
- Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
- Supervisor: The Users
- Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
- Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
Publications
Relative cue weighting in multilingual stop voicing production
Le Xuan Chan and Annika Heuser, 2025To be published in Proceedings of Interspeech 2025Evaluating the existence proof. LLMs as cognitive models
Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez, Annika Heuser, Charles Yang, and Jordan Kodner, 2025To be published in Artificial Knowledge of Language: A Linguists’ Perspective on its Nature, Origins and Use (Vernon Press)Information-theoretic hypothesis generation of relative cue weighting for the voicing contrast
Annika Heuser and Jianjing Kuang, 2024Published in Proceedings of Interspeech 2024Quantification of stylistic differences in human- and ASR-produced transcripts of African American English
Annika Heuser, Tyler Kendall, Miguel Del Rio, Quinten McNamara, Nischal Bhandari, Corey Miller, and Migüel Jetté, 2024Published in Proceedings of Interspeech 2024Evaluating Neural Language Models as Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition
Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez, Annika Heuser, Charles Yang, and Jordan Kodner, 2023Published in Proceedings of the 1st GenBench Workshop on (Benchmarking) Generalisation in NLPTransformer-Maze: An Accessible Incremental Processing Measurement Tool
Annika Heuser and Edward Gibson, 2023Published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45)Transformer-Maze
Annika Heuser, 2022Master’s of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyModeling German Word Order Acquisition via Bayesian Inference
Annika Heuser and Polina Tsvilodub, 2021Published in Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2021Comparing Symbolic Models of Language via Bayesian Inference
Annika Heuser and Polina Tsvilodub, 2021Published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Presentations
Relative cue weighting in multilingual stop voicing production
TBD, Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, the NetherlandsDiscovering Phonological Representations: The Case of French Liaison
Talk, 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2025), Philadelphia, PA, USADiscovering Phonological Representations: The Case of French Liaison
Poster, 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA, USAInformation-theoretic hypothesis generation of relative cue weighting for the voicing contrast
Poster, Interspeech 2024, Kos Island, GreeceQuantification of stylistic differences in human- and ASR-produced transcripts of African American English
Poster, Interspeech 2024, Kos Island, GreeceThe Learnability of Syntactic Islands
Talk, 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS), Cambridge, MA, USACopresented with: Charles YangEvaluating Neural Language Models as Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition
Talk, 1st GenBench Workshop, EMNLP 2023, SingaporeCopresented with: Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez and Jordan KodnerTransformer-Maze: An Accessible Incremental Processing Measurement Tool
Poster, 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia (Virtual)Transformer-Maze: An Accessible Incremental Processing Measurement Tool
Poster, 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, USAModeling German Word Order Acquisition via Bayesian Inference
Talk, Society for Computation in Linguistics, VirtualCopresented with: Polina TsvilodubComparing Symbolic Models of Language via Bayesian Inference
Poster, AAAI Conference Student Abstract and Poster Program, VirtualCopresented with: Polina Tsvilodub
Teaching
Service and leadership
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