Eleanor Chodroff

Modeling human reading gives insights into how we comprehend language, but standard approaches predict some summary measurement instead of the raw fixations and saccades that were actually measured. We challenge that approach 🤺👀 Go find @francignare at #ACL2025 to learn more!

💥 New #ACL2025 main paper!💥 Most #eye #tracking studies collapse fixations into a single “gaze time” metric. We model the full scanpath with a generative probabilistic model. Why? To test how disaggregated modeling stacks up against aggregated approaches.🧵 #Psycholinguistics

📢 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

arxiv.org/abs/2506.00733 Our Interspeech 2025 preprint.

1/3 The US didn’t end up leading the world in computing by luck. It happened because it made long-term, public investments in basic research, especially through NSF. That’s what created the technology that today’s companies are built on.

The United States has had a tremendous advantage in science and technology because it has been the consensus gathering point: the best students worldwide want to study and work in the US because that is where the best students are studying and working. 1/

I’m thrilled to announce that our paper, Quantifying and Reducing Speaker Heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus for Phonetic Analysis, coauthored with @echodroff, Aref Farhadipour, Jiachen Ma, Annie Baker, and Bogdan Pricop from @cl_uzh was accepted for INTERSPEECH2025.

Three linguistics jobs at Oxford!! Please spread the word. linguistlist.org/issues/36/1438/

The honest B or C student, submitting essays filled with awkward constructions, malapropisms, earnest, if failed or surface-y arguments--a surprise hero of the present age.

Life update: I'm starting as faculty at Boston University in 2026! BU has SCHEMES for LM interpretability & analysis, so I couldn't be more pumped to join a burgeoning supergroup w/ @najoungkim @amuuueller. Looking for my first students, so apply and reach out!

Do you want to know how much it costs to publish open access in a journal? I got sick of looking this up, so made this: apc.simon.net.nz #openaccess #academicpublishing #articlepagecharges

“To write for impact means to keep it as simple as possible.” Good read and very insightful. nature.com/articles/s4158…

We're delighted to announce that #LabPhon20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.” Dates, thematic sessions, invited speakers, and more will be announced by the organizers. #LabPhon

A true legend passed away. I'm glad I could meet with him in person for the first time in my life last year.

Join us online this Friday when @UZH_en researcher @echodroff discusses how linguists are starting to use big data to crack mysteries such as why the same sounds on paper can vary so much when spoken by different people, across different languages. bit.ly/3C8Q3wl

Are humans or machines better at recognizing speech? A new study shows that in noisy conditions, current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems achieve remarkable accuracy and sometimes even surpass human performance. news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me…

Sappy thanksgiving post: I believe humans are simply the product of their environment, and so I am thankful for the combined influence of the people I’ve worked with making me the researcher I am. A short history: Ryan Cotterell was the first really strong language AI researcher…

🦋 reminds me of early days on academic Twitter, in a good way

Really proud of @patman_chloe for seeing this project through from start to finish: she got the grant, published the paper, and gave us some good excuses to get outside! Loved having you here! 🏔️🇨🇭👩‍💻 See her 🧵 for more: