jenniferhu@fas.harvard.edu

• •

Publications

Manuscripts

  1. 2024
    Language models align with human judgments on key grammatical constructions
    Jennifer Hu, Kyle Mahowald, Gary Lupyan, Anna Ivanova, and Roger Levy
  2. 2024
  3. 2020
    A Rate–Distortion view of human pragmatic reasoning
    Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu, and Roger Levy

Journal articles

  1. 2023
    Expectations over unspoken alternatives predict pragmatic inferences
    Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, Judith Degen, and Sebastian Schuster
    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  2. 2022
    Precision fMRI reveals that the language-selective network supports both phrase-structure building and lexical access during language production
    Jennifer Hu, Hannah Small, Hope Kean, Atsushi Takahashi, Leo Zelekman, Daniel Kleinman, Elizabeth Ryan, Alfonso Nieto-Castañón, Victor Ferreira, and Evelina Fedorenko
    Cerebral Cortex

Book chapters

  1. 2023
    Learning syntactic structures from string input
    Ethan Wilcox, Jon Gauthier, Jennifer Hu, Peng Qian, and Roger Levy
    Algebraic Structures in Natural Language

Conference proceedings

  1. 2023
    Pragmatics in Grounded Language Learning: Phenomena, Tasks, and Modeling Approaches
    Daniel Fried, Nicholas Tomlin, Jennifer Hu, Roma Patel, and Aida Nematzadeh
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
  2. 2023
    A fine-grained comparison of pragmatic language understanding in humans and language models
    Jennifer Hu, Sammy Floyd, Olessia Jouravlev, Evelina Fedorenko, and Edward Gibson
    Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  3. 2023
    I Cast Detect Thoughts: Learning to Converse and Guide with Intents and Theory-of-Mind in Dungeons and Dragons
    Pei Zhou, Andrew Zhu, Jennifer Hu, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren, Chris Callison-Burch, Yejin Choi, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
    Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  4. 2023
    Prompting is not a substitute for probability measurements in large language models
    Jennifer Hu and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  5. 2022
    Teasing apart models of pragmatics using optimal reference game design
    Irene Zhou, Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, and Noga Zaslavsky
    Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society
  6. 2021
    Competition from novel features drives scalar inferences in reference games
    Jennifer Hu, Noga Zaslavsky, and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society
  7. 2021
    Controlled Evaluation of Grammatical Knowledge in Mandarin Chinese Language Models
    Yiwen Wang, Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, and Peng Qian
    Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  8. 2020
    On the predictive power of neural language models for human real-time comprehension behavior
    Ethan Wilcox, Jon Gauthier, Jennifer Hu, Peng Qian, and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society
  9. 2020
    A Systematic Assessment of Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models
    Jennifer Hu, Jon Gauthier, Peng Qian, Ethan Wilcox, and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  10. 2020
    SyntaxGym: An Online Platform for Targeted Evaluation of Language Models
    Jon Gauthier, Jennifer Hu, Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
  11. 2020
    A closer look at the performance of neural language models on reflexive anaphor licensing
    Jennifer Hu, Sherry Yong Chen, and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics
  12. 2019
    Separating object resonance and room reverberation in impact sounds
    Jennifer Hu, James Traer, and Josh H. McDermott
    Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society
  13. 2018
    Generating Bilingual Pragmatic Color References
    Will Monroe, Jennifer Hu, Andrew Jong, and Christopher Potts
    Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)

Workshop papers

  1. 2022
    Predicting scalar diversity with context-driven uncertainty over alternatives
    Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, and Sebastian Schuster
    ACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
  2. 2021
    Scalable pragmatic communication via self-supervision
    Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, and Noga Zaslavsky
    ICML Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning for Reasoning and Perception

Abstracts

  1. 2022
    Predicting scalar diversity with context-driven expectations
    Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, and Sebastian Schuster
    Proceedings of the Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG)
  2. 2022
    Facilitative Effect Induced by Classifier-Noun Mismatch in Mandarin Chinese
    Yiwen Wang, Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, and Peng Qian
    The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
  3. 2021
    Empirical support for a Rate–Distortion account of pragmatic reasoning
    Irene Zhou, Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, and Noga Zaslavsky
    Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society
  4. 2021
    A Rate–Distortion view of human pragmatic reasoning
    Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu, and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics
  5. 2020
    Distributed and overlapping neural mechanisms for lexical access and syntactic encoding during language production
    Jennifer Hu, Hannah Small, Hope Kean, Atsushi Takahashi, Leo Zekelman, Daniel Kleinman, Elizabeth Ryan, Victor Ferreira, and Evelina Fedorenko
    Proceedings of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
  6. 2020
    Benchmarking neural networks as models of human language processing
    Ethan Wilcox, Jon Gauthier, Jennifer Hu, Peng Qian, and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of the 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference
  7. 2020
    Evaluating the effect of model inductive bias and training data in predicting human reading times
    Ethan Wilcox, Jon Gauthier, Peng Qian, Jennifer Hu, and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference
  8. 2020
    Emergence of pragmatic reasoning from least-effort optimization
    Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu, and Roger Levy
    Proceedings of Evolution of Language International Conferences
  9. 2018
    A graph-theoretic approach to comparing typologies in Parallel OT and Harmonic Serialism
    Jennifer Hu
    Proceedings of the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America