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Alex Warstadt received BAs in Linguistics and Music Theory from Brown University and a PhD in Linguistics from New York University. His research employs advances in Large Language Models to address fundamental scientific questions related to the acquisition, processing, and structure of natural language. He has made significant contributions in the area of creating the Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability (CoLA) and the Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs (BLiMP), which are widely utilized benchmarks for measuring the grammatical capabilities of large language models. Additionally, he established the BabyLM Challenge, a community competition aimed at fostering the development of data-efficient and developmentally plausible language models. His work in pragmatics integrates theoretical, experimental, and computational methodologies, focusing on various topics such as relevance, discourse structure, and presupposition.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).