Jacob A. Matthews
jam963 at cornell dot edu
I’m a PhD candidate in Romance Studies with a minor in Cognitive Science at Cornell.
My current interests include:
- representational analysis of language and embedding models
- human and machine language processing, particularly of literary texts
- adapting methods from computational linguistics and NLP for humanities research.
My graduate committee is Laurent Dubreuil (chair), Morten Christiansen, and Shimon Edelman.
I also collaborate with people in:
Some recent and ongoing projects:
- “Grokking Wug Vectors”. Jacob A. Matthews and Marten van Schijndel. 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2023. (abstract) (poster)
- “Give or take a few representations”. John R. Starr, Jacob A. Matthews, and Marten van Schijndel. (ongoing)
- “Poetry, AI and the Mind: A Humanities-Cognitive Science Transdisciplinary Exploration” with Morten Christiansen, Laurent Dubreuil, and Pablo Contreras Kallens (ongoing).