Barend Beekhuizen
Assistant Professor
Studies computational models of cross-linguistic semantic variation and language acquisition.
Barend Beekhuizen's lab at Toronto works on multilingual, translation & linguistics. 20 papers since 2023. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 0
- 4 papers2024 · T1 0
- 4 papers2023 · T1 0
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Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics0 papers
- variation0 papers
- language acquisition0 papers
- acquisition0 papers
- computational models0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20266 papers
- Cognitive LinguisticsConstrual and variable discourse patterns explain the typology of visual perception verbs.
- In Proceedings of the workshop on linguistic analysis for health (healing ) (pp. 249-256). ACL.Linguistic features competitive with bert! leveraging speech for detection of mental health in paediatric lupus.
- A computational approach to cross-genre variation in metaphor usage. Metaphor and Symbol 41(3), 314-341.Metaphor as communicative practice.
- In The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the International Conference (Evolang XVI).Semantic systematicity: A new perspective on compressibility and expressivity in iterated learning.
- In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society.The integrated information bottleneck: A theoretically-grounded model unifying category- and system-level structure in communicative efficiency.
- In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the cognitive science society.The narrative niche: Communicative need in narrative drives lexical richness within efficient communication.
20256 papers
- In The Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP.A discovery procedure for synlexification patterns in the world's languages.
- In: Proceedings EMNLPAnalyzing values about gendered language reform in LLMs' revisions.
- In O. Rambow, L. Wanner, M. Apidianaki, H. Al-Khalifa, B. D. Eugenio, & S. Schockaert (Eds.), Proceedings of the international conference on computational linguistics (pp. 1201-1223). Abu Dhabi, UAE: Association for Computational Linguistics.Do language models practice what they preach? examining language ideologies about gendered language reform encoded in LLMs.
- In: Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL ).Spatial relation marking across languages: extraction, evaluation, analysis.
- In The Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP.Token-level semantic typology without a massively parallel corpus.
- In Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL ).VORM: Translations and a constrained hypothesis space support unsupervised morphological segmentation across languages.
20244 papers
- In J. Nolle et al. (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the International Conference (Evolang XV).Discursive distinctiveness explains lexical differences between languages.
- AI and Society, 40, 1785-1801.GPT-4-trinis: assessing GPT-4‘s communicative competence in the English-speaking majority world.
- Newhouse Impact Journal 1, 8-9.LLMs and Linguistic Competency: An Exploration of GPT-4 and a Non-Hegemonic English Variety.
- In M. Zock, E. Chersoni, Y.-Y. Hsu, & S. de Deyne (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex) (pp. 98-106). Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL.Using a language model to unravel semantic development in children’s use of a Dutch perception verb.
20234 papers
- In Proceedings of the annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society.Communicative need shapes choices to use gendered vs. gender-neutral kinship terms across online communities.
- In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society .Space in context: Communicative factors shape spatial language.
- Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.Truth be told. a corpus-based study of adjectives of truth and reality across languages.
- Leveraging insights from psycholinguistics. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (volume 1: Long papers) (pp. 6790-6809).What social attitudes about gender does BERT encode?
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Apply to TorontoFall 2027
Computer Science MSc/PhD
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