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Francesca Padovani

Francesca Padovani

PhD Student

University of Groningen

Francesca is a first year PhD at InCLow, working at the intersection between Language Acquision and Language Modeling. She is interested in understanding how infants learn and process language and how the child-directed language signal can be leveraged to train cognitively more plausible models.

For more details, check his/her homepage.

Latest

  • CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child–Adult InTeractions
  • Is Child-Directed Language Optimized for Word Learning? A Computational Study of Verb Meaning Acquisition
  • BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data
  • Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models
  • Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM (But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning)
  • TurBLiMP: A Turkish Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs
  • Automatic Text Simplification: A Comparative Study in Italian for Children with Language Disorders

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