Schedule

 Monday 22 June
09.15 - 09.45Walk in, coffee
09.45 - 10.00Welcome
Stefan Frank
10.00 - 11.00Keynote 1: Language models and L2 sentence processing
Edith Kaan
11.00 - 11.30Coffee
11.30 - 12.00Signaling functions of code-switching: evidence from human bilinguals and large language models
Onur Özsoy, Ziyue Liu, Michelle Vuong, Jacopo Torregrossa, Nils Reiter, Edith Kaan
12.00 - 12.30Processing effects of code-switching in humans and LLMs
Marina Sokolova, Natalia Moskvina, Nayara Mirio e Silva
12.30 - 13.30Lunch
13.30 - 15.00Poster session
15.00 - 15.30Structural priming and ungrammatical cross-linguistic influence in comprehension
Giuseppe Dario Benigno, Marta Rivera, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Estela Garcia-Alcaraz
15.30 - 16.00Selective cross-linguistic influence in real-time L3 sentence processing: An empirical benchmark for multilingual models
Pouran Seifi, Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova
16.00 - 17.00Keynote 2: Modeling cross-lingual differences in the vocabulary
Lisa Beinborn
17.00 - lateDrinks + BBQ
 Tuesday 23 June
09.30 - 10.00Language-model based investigation of information structure in code-switched dialogue
Fahima Ayub Khan, Bill Noble
10.00 - 11.00Parsing as Processing: A computational perspective on spoken code-switching
Olga Kellert, Nemika Tyagi
10.30 - 11.00Coffee
11.00 - 11.30Bilingual language models as models of bilingualism: Reflecting on techniques
Naomi Shapiro
11.30 - 12.00Prediction under pressure: How dyslexia and second-language reading shape predictive sentence processing
Sam Boeve, Ella Salgado Figueroa, Louisa Bogaerts
12.00 - 12.30Modeling language comprehension in heritage bilingualism using large language models: A neurocomputational approach
Wei-Hung Lin, Nuo Chen, Molly Leachman, Chi-Lin Yu, Tai-Li Chou, Jonathan Brennan, Ioulia Kovelman
12.30 - 14.00Lunch
14.00 - 15.00Keynote 3: Shared representations across languages in models and brains
Andrea de Varda
15.00 - 15.15Closing announcements
16.00 - ?Social event

Poster session

 
AgentMaze: An Automated Maze Distractor Generation Framework for Multilingual Incremental Processing Research
Junlin Li, Cui Ding, Lena Jäger
BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data
Jaap Jumelet, Abdellah Fourtassi, Akari Haga, Bastian Bunzeck, Bhargav Shandilya, Alex Warstadt, Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Francesca Padovani, Leshem Choshen, Arianna Bisazza
Bilingual code-switch processing in natural conversation with EEG
James Baybaş, Dorothy Yuxi Lin, Sharon Lu, Dr. Jonathan Brennan
Can SLA Language Models Better Predict Non-Native Reading Times?
Abderrahmane Issam
Is Cross-Lingual Transfer in Bilingual Models Human-Like? A Study with Overlapping Word Forms in Dutch and English
Iza Škrjanec, Irene E. Winther, Vera Demberg, Stefan L. Frank
L1 Influence in L2 Language Models: A Human-centric Approach
Lily Goulder, Laura Barbenel, Aoife O’Driscoll, Suchir Salhan, Catherine Arnett , Paula Buttery, Andrew Caines
Modeling L1–L2 Differences in Binding Resolution During Sentence Processing
Demi Zhang, Edith Kaan
MultiBLiMP 2.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Language Model Sensitivity to Word Order
Jaap Jumelet, Leonie Weissweiler, Joakim Nivre, Arianna Bisazza
Multilingual language comprehension in Large Language Models
Natalia Moskvina, Raquel Montero, Masaya Yoshida, Ferdy Hubers, Paolo Morosi, Walid Irhaymi, Jin Yan, Elena Pagliarini, Fritz Günther, Evelina Leivada
Parameter-Based Grammar Competition Models as Models of (Un)balanced Multilingualism
Sid Bhushan
Positional Bias in Vision Language Models During Multilingual Visual Word Recognition
Jan Brasser, Cui Ding, Lena Jäger
Socially conditioned prediction in bilingual code-switching: Implications for computational models
Hannah Treadway, Jorge Valdés Kroff
Strategic Attention in Multilingual Academic Reading: Eye-Tracking Evidence for Metacognitive Regulation and Implications for Computational Modelling
Mhd Ghaith Alturjman
Studying the semantic and form preactivation in Simultaneous Bilinguals and Monolinguals from EEG Recordings using Representation Similarity Analysis (RSA)
Daniel Alberto Gross Ramírez, Giuseppe Dario Benigno, Marc Ouellet, Pedro Guijarro Fuentes
Toward Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Annotation of Child-Adult Interactions
Francesca Padovani, Jaap Jumelet, Yevgen Matusevych , Arianna Bisazza