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Bilinguals exhibit semantic convergence while maintaining near-optimal efficiency
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025)
Taliaferro, M., & Imel, & N., Zaslavsky, N. & Blanco-Elorrieta, E. (2025). "Bilinguals exhibit semantic convergence while maintaining near-optimal efficiency." in Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Iterated language learning is shaped by a drive for optimizing lossy compression
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025)
Imel, N., & Culbertson, J. & Kirby, S., & Zaslavsky, N. (2025). "Iterated language learning is shaped by a drive for optimizing lossy compression." in Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
The Unnatural Language ToolKit (ULTK)
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 8 (SCiL 2025)
Imel, N., & Haberland, C. & Steinert-Threlkeld, S. (2025). "The Unnatural Language ToolKit." Society for Computation in Linguistics (8)1:46. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.3144.
Optimal compression in human concept learning
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024)
Imel, N. & Zaslavsky, N. (2024). "Optimal compression in human concept learning." Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Citation-similarity relationships in astrophysics literature
NeurIPS 2023 AI4Science Workshop
Imel, N., & Hafen-Saavedra, Z. (2023). "Citation-similarity relationships in astrophysics literature." NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on AI for Scientific Discovery: From Theory to Practice.
Noisy population dynamics lead to efficiently compressed semantic systems
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Principles in Cognitive Systems
Imel, N., & Futrell, R., & Franke, M., & Zaslavsky, N. (2023). "Noisy population dynamics lead to efficiently compressed semantic systems." NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Information-Theoretic Principles in Cognitive Systems.
The evolution of efficient compression in signaling games
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023)
Imel, N. (2023). "The evolution of efficient compression in signaling games." Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Modal semantic universals optimize the simplicity/informativeness trade-off
Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 32
Imel, N. and Steinert-Threlkeld, S. (2022). "Modal semantic universals optimize the simplicity/informativeness tradeoff." Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 32.
A semantic universal for modality
Semantics and Pragmatics
Steinert-Threlkeld, S., Imel, N., & Guo, Q. (2023). "A semantic universal for modality." Semantics and Pragmatics, 16, 1:EA-1:EA.
A database for modal semantic typology
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2022)
Guo, Q. Imel, N., and Steinert-Threlkeld, S. (2022). "A database for modal semantic typology." Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2022). pp 42-51.
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Density, asymmetry and citation dynamics in scientific literature.
Imel, N., & Hafen, Z. (2025). "Density, asymmetry and citation dynamics in scientific literature." arxiv.
An efficient communication analysis of modal typology
Imel, N., Guo, Q., & Steinert-Threlkeld, S. (2023). "An efficient communication analysis of modal typology." lingbuzz.
Sciterra: a python library for unified scientometrics
Imel, N. and Hafen-Saavedra, Z. "Sciterra: a python library for unified scientometrics." https://github.com/nathimel/sciterra.
Deontic priority in the lexicalization of impossibility modals
Uegaki, W., Mucha, A., Imel, N., & Steinert-Threlkeld, S. (2023). "Deontic priority in the lexicalization of impossibility modals." PsyArXiv.