The Language Processing Group is a research group in the Department of Language Science at the University of California, Irvine.

We study language processing in humans and machines. Our goal is to understand how human language works using computational modeling, machine learning, large datasets, behavioral experiments, and information theory.

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Principal Investigator

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Richard Futrell

Assistant Professor of Language Science, UC Irvine

Language, Information theory, Machine learning

Lab Members

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Charles Torres

PhD Student, UC Irvine

cultural evolution, semantic representation, cognitive modeling

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Huteng Dai

PhD Student, Rutgers University

Theoretical phonology, Computational and experimental methods, Formal Language Theory

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Jiaxuan Li

PhD Student, UC Irvine

Sentence Processing, Semantic Representation, ERPs, Cognitive Modeling

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Michael Hahn

PhD Student, Stanford University

Human language processing, Natural language processing, How cognition shapes language

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Niels Dickson

PhD Student, UC Irvine

language acquisition, cognitive constraints and efficient communication, computational models

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Shiva Upadhye

PhD Student, UC Irvine

Language Production and Comprehension, Semantic Representation, Cognitive Modeling

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Weijie Xu

PhD Student, UC Irvine

Language Processing, Language Change, Crosslinguistic variation

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Zeinab Kachakeche

PhD Student, UC Irvine

language efficiency, adjective order

Collaborating Students

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Ethan Wilcox

PhD Student, Harvard University

Natural Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics

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Himanshu Yadav

PhD Student, University of Potsdam

Quantitative structural complexity of languages, Individual difference in sentence processing

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Neil Rathi

Senior, Palo Alto High School

linguistic typology, computational psycholinguistics, cognitive pressures on natural language

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Peng Qian

PhD Student, MIT

Cognitive basis of language, Relevance of linguistic knowledge in learning, reasoning, and judgment

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Sihan Chen

PhD Student, MIT

sentence processing, communicative efficiency of language, environmental pressure on language

Alums

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Zachary Rosen

PhD Student, UC Irvine

metaphor comprehension, distributed semantics models