Talks

Invited Talks & Seminars

Selected talks, keynotes, and seminar presentations.

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