The Kanpur Language Processing (KaLP) Lab is a research group led by Himanshu Yadav in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. We study language processing and language evolution in humans and machines. The goal is to understand how human language evolved and how it works in the mind and machines. See our research projects here.

Research areas: Human sentence comprehension, working memory, individual differences, language evolution, quantitative structural complexity of languages, interpretable AI, cognitive modeling, statistical methods in cognitive sciences

Methods: Reading and eye-tracking experiments, Bayesian modeling, large-scale corpora analysis.