Optimal compression in human concept learning
Imel, N. & Zaslavsky, N. (2024). "Optimal compression in human concept learning." Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Peer-reviewed publications
Citation-similarity relationships in astrophysics literature
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Works in progress
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.
The Unnatural Language ToolKit (ULTK)
Imel, N. and Steinert-Threlkeld, S. "The unnatural language toolkit." https://clmbr.shane.st/ultk/ultk.html.
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.