Yuhan Zhang
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Bio
My name is Yuhan Zhang ([y'hæn ʈ͡ʂɑ̃ŋ]). I am a sixth-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. My research focuses on psycholinguistics and experimental semantics. I work with Prof. Kathryn Davidson at Meaning and Modality Lab. I also work with Prof. Edward Gibson at the Language Lab at MIT.
I am broadly interested in understanding how we convey meaning through language, how language processing reveals human cognitive mechanisms, how to use computational tools to model these mechanisms. I am also getting started at evaluating large language models from a psycholinguistic and experimental linguistic angle. Please check out our amazing work with Forrest Davis.
Before coming to Harvard, I received my Bachelor's Degree from Tsinghua University.
News
In May 2024, I will give a talk to present a potential theory to explain the negative polarity illusion at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing. See you at UMich!
In December 2023, our work "Can Language Models Be Tricked by Language Illusions? Easier with Syntax, Harder with Semantics" will be presented as a talk at The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)! See you in Singapore!
In September 2023, our work on noisy-channel explanation of comparative illusions has been accepted as a talk at AMLaP! See you in Spain!