Mahowald, Kyle

How Efficiency Shapes Human Language

Gibson, E., Futrell, R., Piantadosi, S. P., Dautriche, I., Mahowald, K., Bergen, L., & Levy, R. (2019) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 485

Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages

Futrell, R., Mahowald, K., & Gibson, E. (2015) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationNeurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Cited by 455

Dissociating language and thought in large language models

Mahowald, K., Ivanova, A. A., Blank, I. A., Kanwisher, N., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Fedorenko, E. (2024) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismNatural Language Processing Techniques

Cited by 345

With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility

Card, D., Henderson, P., Khandelwal, U., Jia, R., Mahowald, K., & Jurafsky, D. (2020) · Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

Natural Language Processing TechniquesTopic Modeling

Cited by 84

Dissociating language and thought in large language models

Mahowald, K., Ivanova, A. A., Blank, I. A., Kanwisher, N., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Fedorenko, E. (2023) · arXiv

Natural Language Processing TechniquesTopic Modeling

Cited by 80

Language Models Fail to Introspect About Their Knowledge of Language

Song, S., Hu, J., & Mahowald, K. (2025) · arXiv

Natural Language Processing TechniquesTopic Modeling

Cited by 2

Lil-Bevo: Explorations of Strategies for Training Language Models in More Humanlike Ways

Govindarajan, V. S., Rodriguez, J. D., Bostrom, K., & Mahowald, K. (2023) · Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge at the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing Techniques

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Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI

Song, S., Lederman, H., Hu, J., & Mahowald, K. (2025) · arXiv

Philosophy and Theoretical ScienceExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

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