Talks & Presentations

Presentations, Posters & Invited Talks

Talks and posters on how intelligence emerges in minds and machines: slides and keynotes, conference and workshop posters, and a full list of invited talks & seminars.

Slides & keynotes Posters Invited talks & seminars

Slides & Keynotes

Invited Talk & Conference Slides

Presentation decks from conference talks and invited keynotes.

Measuring Grammatical Diversity from Small Corpora

ACL 2025 Main Conference (Poster / Slides) · Vienna, Austria

Slides (PDF) Related paper

The Distribution of Phonemes across Languages

13th Conference on the Mental Lexicon · Invited Keynote · Montreal, Canada · 2025

Slides (PDF) Related paper

Posters

Conference & Workshop Posters

Posters presented at conferences, workshops and departmental showcases.

Presenting a BabyLM poster at EMNLP 2025 — Presenting at the BabyLM Workshop, EMNLP 2025 (Suzhou).

Theoretical Linguistics poster at CogInterp, NeurIPS 2025 — Theoretical Linguistics Constrains Causal Abstraction — CogInterp @ NeurIPS 2025.

ACL 2025 Poster

Measuring Grammatical Diversity from Small Corpora — ACL 2025 Main Conference, Vienna.

Poster (PDF)

BabyLM (EMNLP) Poster

BabyLM Workshop, EMNLP 2025 — human-scale language modelling, Suzhou.

Poster (PDF)

BabyLM Sequence-Length Poster

What's the Best Sequence Length for BabyLM? — BabyLM Workshop, EMNLP 2025.

Poster (PDF)

EMNLP Poster

Poster presented at EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China.

Poster (PDF)

CogInterp @ NeurIPS Poster

NeurIPS First Workshop on CogInterp: Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models, 2025.

Poster (PDF)

CogInterp @ NeurIPS Poster (II)

Second CogInterp @ NeurIPS 2025 poster — theoretical linguistics & causal abstraction.

Poster (PDF)

Pico / MAML @ MRL Poster

Meta-pretraining for zero-shot cross-lingual NER — MRL Workshop, EMNLP 2025.

Poster (PDF)

ALTA Annual Review Poster

ALTA Institute Annual Review 2025 — small language models & language learning.

Poster (PDF)

Cambridge Language Sciences Poster

Cambridge Language Sciences showcase — phoneme distributions (with F. Moscoso del Prado Martín).

Poster (PDF)

Cambridge Language Sciences / MRL Poster

Cambridge Language Sciences — multilingual representation learning abstract.

Poster (PDF)

CST PhD Demo Poster

Department of Computer Science & Technology PhD Demonstration.

Poster (PDF)

LHI Expo Poster

Learning & Human Intelligence Group Expo — small-scale language models.

Poster (PDF)

Invited Talks & Seminars

Selected talks, keynotes, and seminar presentations. I also organise the NLIP Seminar Series at Cambridge — see Service.

Structured Exposure Pretraining in Bilingual Language Models for Modelling L2 Language Processing

X-PPL-26: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning · Bayonne, Basque Country · September 2026

Multilingual and Interactional Approaches to Human-Scale Language Modelling

Invited Seminar, Language and Multimodal Processing Group, University of Copenhagen · jointly delivered with Dr Diana Galvan-Sosa · May 2026

Understanding the Human-Scale AI Frontier: Sample-Efficient and Human-Scale Language Modelling

Invited Seminar, SheffieldNLP · Sheffield, UK · May 2026

Bilingual language models as computational models of human bilingualism and AI-based solutions to support second-language learning.

Cambridge Language Sciences Workshop: Toward a more ecological investigation of bilingualism, and Workshop on Computational Linguistic Methods for Language Learning Technology (ALTA CST) · Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge · March 2026

Less is More: Pre-Training Cross-Lingual Small-Scale Language Models with Cognitively-Plausible Curriculum Learning Strategies

Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium (November 2024) · Poster at HumanCLAIM Workshop, Göttingen, Germany (March 2025) · Poster and Demonstration at Cambridge CHIA (Centre for Human-Inspired AI) Annual Conference (June 2025)

Human-Validated Grammar Profiles for Language Models

Workshop organised by Prof Detmar Meurers · Tübingen, Germany · March 2025

The Distribution of Phonemes across Languages: Chance, Costs, and Integration across Linguistic Tiers.

13th Conference on the Mental Lexicon · Invited Keynote delivered by Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin, McGill University, Montreal · June 2025

L1 Influence in L2 Language Models: A Human-centric Approach

2026 HumanCLAIM Workshop (Göttingen, Germany) and Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting 2026, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics · Nijmegen, Netherlands · March 2026

LLMs "off-the-shelf" or Pretrain-from-Scratch? Recalibrating Biases and Improving Transparency using Small-Scale Language Models

Learning and Human Intelligence Group, Department of Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge · 2024

On the Potential for Maximising Minimal Means in Transformer Language Models

SyntaxLab, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge · seminar organised by Dr Theresa Biberauer · 14 February 2023

UROP Project Report 2021: Providing Automatic Feedback on Argumentation Quality to Learners of English

Natural Language and Information Processing Group, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge · 2021