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What are the abilities and limitations of LLMs? Can LLMs help non-expert programmers? I study these questions from a variety of angles, including model development, benchmarking and evaluation, and human-computer interaction studies.</p> 98 99 <p>Within linguistics, I study how context-sensitive meaning is encoded in natural language. I build computational models to understand how conversation participants use knowledge about each other's mental states, and use psycholinguistic methods to understand how people select context-sensitive expressions.</p> 100 101 <!--<p>My dissertation, <b><a href="https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/005454?_s=6KVdJSTSZvacd4I_&_k=cqAtx-8HmlYak3QH">Shifting the Perspectival Landscape</a></b>, is now on <a href="https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/005454?_s=6KVdJSTSZvacd4I_&_k=cqAtx-8HmlYak3QH">LingBuzz</a>.</p>--> 102 </div> 103 <div class="col-md-1"> 104 </div> 105 <div class="col-md-3"> 106 <a href="#"> 107 <img class="img-responsive thumbnail" src="img/ta_small.jpg"> 108 </a> 109 <div style="display: grid; justify-content:center">carolyn.anderson AT wellesley.edu</div> 110 <div style="display: grid; justify-content:center"><h6></h6></div> 111 <!--<div style="display: grid; justify-content:center"> 112 <h3 class="interests">Interests</h3> 113 <h5 class="interests">o Computational Modeling</h5> 114 <h5 class="interests">o Semantics and Pragmatics</h5> 115 <h5 class="interests">o Machine Learning</h5> 116 <h5 class="interests">o Psycholinguistics</h5> 117 </div>--> 118 </div> 119 </div> 120 <div class="row"> 121 <div class="col-md-10"> 122 <h3>News</h3> 123 <p>o August 2026: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22807"><b>The Best Programming Language for Tokenmaxxing</b></a> accepted to LMPL at SPLASH 2026</p> 124 <p>o New preprint: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22807"><b>The Best Programming Language for Tokenmaxxing</b></a></p> 125 <p>o July 2026: <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.29"><b>Do I know what I want to say?</b></a> presented at SCiL 2026</p> 126 <p>o January-June 2026: I am on parental leave and may be slow to reply to email</p> 127 <p>o January 2026: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04865"><b>Agnostics</b></a> accepted to ICLR 2026</p> 128 <p>o December 2025: Alex Brey, Maeve Doyle, and I received <a href="https://www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-and-ai-virtual-institute/">funding from Schmidt Sciences</a> for our work on computational analysis of marginal images in medieval manuscripts 129 <p>o October 2025: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01584"><b>ReasoningWeekly</b></a> accepted to AACL 2025</p> 130 <!-- 131 <p>o April 2026: <b>Do I know what I want to say?</b> accepted to SCiL 2026</p> 132 <p>o September 2025: <b>Speaker-Related Pragmatic Inferences in Personae Formation</b> was accepted to XPrag 2025</p> 133 <p>o July 2025: I served as the General Chair for SCiL 2025</p> 134 <p>o July 2025: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05894"><b>GlyphPattern</b></a> was presented at ACL Findings 2025</p> 135 <p>o June 2025: <b>âI Would Have Written My Code Differentlyâ</b> was presented at the HumanAISE workshop at FSE 2025</p> 136 <p>o May 2025: <b>Effects of Text-Formatting on Speaker-Related Pragmatic Inferences</b> was presented at CLS 61</p> 137 <p>o May 2025: CRA white paper on <a href="https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/CCC_CRA-I-Whitepaper_-The-Future-of-Programming-in-the-Age-of-Large-Language-Models.pdf"><b>The Future of Programming in the Age of Large Language Models</b></a> published</p> 138 <p>o April 2025: <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19792"><b>Substance Beats Style</b></a> was presented at NAACL 2025</a></p> 139 <p>o April 2025: <b>Components of Character</b> was published in the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities</p> 140 <p>o March 2025: <b>Perspective Shift with Korean Motion Verbs</b> was presented at GLOW 47</p> 141 <p>o I'm on junior research leave F24-S25</p>
142 <p>o April 2025: <b>âI Would Have Written My Code Differentlyâ</b> was accepted to the HumanAISE workshop at FSE 2025</p> 143 <p>o January 2025: <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19792"><b>Substance Beats Style</b></a> accepted to NAACL 2025</a></p> 144 <p>o May 2025: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05894"><b>GlyphPattern</b></a> accepted to ACL Findings 2025</p> 145 <p>o March 2025: <b>Effects of Text-Formatting on Speaker-Related Pragmatic Inferences</b> was accepted to CLS 61</p> 146 <p>o January 2025: <b>Components of Character</b> was accepted to the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities.</p> 147 <p>o January 2025: <b>But *How* Do They Use It? Scaffolding the Introduction of Generative AI Across the SLAC Curriculum</b> was accepted to Innovations and Opportunities in Liberal Arts Computing Education at SIGCSE 2025</p> 148 <p>o January 2025: <b>Perspective Shift with Korean Motion Verbs</b> has been accepted to GLOW 47</p> 149 <p>o December 2024: <b>Anaphoric Relations and Quoting Out of Context</b> was accepted to RED 2025 Conference</p> 150 <p>o November 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16131"><b>AustenAlike</b></a> was presented at NLP4DH at EMNLP 2024</p> 151 <p>o November 2024: I spoke on World of Wellesley's <a href="https://youtu.be/lSqVCP_Bhh8?feature=shared">panel discussion of Unmasking AI</a></p> 152 <p>o October 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09895"><b>MultiPL-T</b></a> was presented at OOPSLA 2024</p> 153 <p>o October 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12450"><b>Can It Edit?</b></a> was presented at COLM 2024</p> 154 <p>o New preprint: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05894"><b>GlyphPattern</b></a>, a benchmark for abstract pattern recognition in VLMs</p> 155 <p>o August 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04556"><b>StudentEval</b></a> was presented at ACL 2024</p> 156 <p>o August 2024: Two papers presented at the TeachNLP workshop at ACL 2024</p> 157 <p>o June 2024: I co-presented Manuscript Connections at the Computer Vision and Art History Today convening</p> 158 <p>o June 2024: <b>Parenthesized Modifiers in English and Korean: What They (May) Mean</b> presented at ELM 3</p> 159 <p>o June 2024: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3663384.3663393"><b>Non-Expert Programmers in the Generative AI Future</b></a> presented at CHIWORK 2024</p> 160 <p>o May 2024: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3613904.3642706"><b>How Beginning Programmers and Code LLMs (Mis)read Each Other</b></a> presented at CHI 2024</p> 161 <p>o New preprint: <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19792"><b>Substance Beats Style: Why Beginning Students Fail to Code with LLMs</b></a> 162 <p>o May 2024: <b>What Parenthesized Modifiers (May) Mean</b> presented at HSP 2024</p> 163 <p>o September 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16131"><b>AustenAlike</b></a> accepted to NLP4DH at EMNLP 2024</p> 164 <p>o July 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12450"><b>Can It Edit?</b></a> accepted to COLM 2024</p> 165 <p>o July 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09895"><b>MultiPL-T</b></a> accepted to OOPSLA 2024</p> 166 <p>o New preprint: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16131"><b>AustenAlike</b></a>, a benchmark for evaluating computational representations of literary characters</p> 167 <p>o May 2024: EASEL lab member Anders Freeman successfully defends their honors thesis. Congrats!</p> 168 <p>o February 2024: <b><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19173">StarCoder 2</a></b> released</p> 169 <p>o June 2024: Two papers accepted to the Teaching Materials track at TeachNLP 2024</p> 170 <p>o May 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04556"><b>StudentEval</b></a> accepted to ACL Findings</p> 171 <p>
171o April 2024: EASEL lab member Sydney Nguyen wins Best Presentation award for <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04556"><b>StudentEval</b></a> at the LLM4Code workshop at ICSE 2024</p> 172 <p>o April 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12450"><b>Can It Edit?</b></a> presented at the LLM4Code workshop at ICSE 2024</p> 173 <p>o March 2024: <b>Non-Expert Programmers in the Generative AI Future</b> accepted to CHIWORK 2024</p> 174 <p>o February 2024: I visited Swarthmore to give a colloquium in the Linguistics department</p> 175 <p>o February 2024: <b>Parenthesized Modifiers in English and Korean: What They (May) Mean</b> accepted to ELM 3</p> 176 <p>o November 2023: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06161"><b>StarCoder</b></a> accepted to <i>Transactions on Machine Learning Research</i></p> 177 <p>o August 2023: Received an NSF Award for research on Code LLMs for programming in the sciences, with Molly Q Feldman, Arjun Guha, and Erin G. Teich</p> 178 <p>o November 2023: Three papers by EASEL lab alums presented at TADA 2023</p> 179 <p>o September 2023: <b>Protagonist-Mediated Perspective</b> presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 28.</p> 180 <p>o March 2024: <b>What Parenthesized Modifiers (May) Mean</b> accepted to HSP 2024</p> 181 <p>o January 2024: <b>How Beginning Programmers and Code LLMs (Mis)read Each Other</b> accepted to CHI 2024</p> 182 <p>o January 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12450"><b>Can It Edit?</b></a> accepted to LLM4Code workshop at ICSE 2024</p> 183 <p>o January 2024: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04556"><b>StudentEval</b></a> accepted to LLM4Code workshop at ICSE 2024</p> 184 <p>o September 2023: <b>Cross-linguistic differences in processing parentheticals between English and Korean</b> presented at Comparative Punctuation</p><p>o July 2023: I presented a poster on <b>What (Some) Parentheses Mean</b> at UMass Linguistic's 50th anniversary celebration</p> 185 <p>o August 2023: Our <a href="https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/~arjunguha/main/papers/2023-multipl-t.html"><b>MultiPL-T paper</b></a> shows how to achieve SOTA text-to-code in 3 low-resource programming languages</p> 186 <p>o July 2023: I gave a <a href="https://indico.bnl.gov/event/20122/">talk</a> as part of Brookhaven National Lab's AI/ML Seminar Series</p> 187 <p>o June 2023: <b>Do All Minority Languages Look the Same to GPT-3?</b> presented at SCiL 2023</p> 188 <p>o June 2023: <b>Solving and Generating NPR Sunday Puzzles with Large Language Models</b> presented at ICCC 2023.</p> 189 <p>o June 2023: <b>StudentEval: a Benchmark of Student-Written Prompts for Large Language Models of Code</b> draft available on Arxiv.</p> 190 <p>o May 2023: BigCode project released <b><a href="https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder">StarCoder</a>: May the Source Be With You!</b></p> 191 <p>o April 2023: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08227">MultiPL-E</a> accepted to <i>IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering</i></p> 192 <p>o March 2023: <b>SantaCoder: Donât Reach For the Stars!</b> wins Best Paper Award at DL4C 2023.</p> 193 <p>o December 2022: <b>Grammatical Perspective-Taking in Comprehension and Production</b> accepted to <i>Open Mind</i>.</p> 194 <p>o May 2023: EASEL lab member Michelle Zhao successfully defends her honors thesis. Congrats!</p> 195 <p>o December 2022: I was invited to participate in the AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Program.</p> 196 <p>o December 2022: EASEL lab member Skylar Kolisko successfully defends her honors thesis: <b>Names in Large Language Models</b>.</p> 197 <p>o November 2022: <b>Exploring Social Biases of Large Language Models in a College Artificial Intelligence Course</b> accepted to Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) 2023.</p> 198 --> 199 </div> 200 </div> 201 </div> 202</div> 203 </div> 204 </div> 205 206 <footer class="site-footer"> 207</footer> 208 209 210 <!-- /.container --> 211
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