Computational Linguist and Cognitive Scientist
2019 - now2017 - 2019201720162011-2017 PhD., Stanford University
2007-2011 B.A., The Johns Hopkins
University
2021-2022 UW Royalty Research Fund
2016-2017 Mellon Foundation Dissertation
Completion Fellowship
2011-2016 Patrick Suppes Fellowship in
Philosophy of Science
2007-2011 Hodson Trust Scholar
2022 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Explaining semantic typology, forms and
all,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2022), doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.02.001.
2021 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Quantifiers in Natural Language: Efficient
Communication and Degrees of Semantic Universals,”
Entropy 23, no. 10 (2021): 1335, doi:10.3390/e23101335.
2021 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld, Philippe Schlenker, and Emmanuel Chemla
“Referential and General Calls in Primate Semantics,”
Linguistics and Philosophy 44, no. 6 (2021): 1317–1342, doi:10.1007/s10988-021-09322-1.
2021 Fausto Carcassi,
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, and Jakub Szymanik “Monotone Quantifiers
Emerge via Iterated Learning,” Cognitive Science 45, no.
8 (2021): e13027, doi:10.1111/cogs.13027.
2021 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld and Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld “How Social
Networks Affect the Repression-Dissent Puzzle,” PLOS ONE
16, no. 5 (2021): e0250784, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0250784.
2020 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik “Ease of Learning Explains
Semantic Universals,” Cognition 195 (2020): 104076,
doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104076.
2020 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Toward the Emergence of Nontrivial
Compositionality,” Philosophy of Science 87, no. 5
(2020): 897–909, doi:10.1086/710628.
2020 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “An Explanation of the Veridical Uniformity
Universal,” Journal of Semantics 37, no. 1 (2020):
129–144, doi:10.1093/jos/ffz019.
2020 Peter Hawke and
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld “Semantic Expressivism for Epistemic
Modals,” Linguistics and Philosophy 44, no. 2 (2021):
475–511, doi:10.1007/s10988-020-09295-7.
2019 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik “Learnability and Semantic
Universals,” Semantics & Pragmatics 12, no. 4
(2019), doi:10.3765/sp.12.4.
2016/2018 Peter Hawke and
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld “Informational Dynamics of Epistemic
Possibility Modals,” Synthese 195, no. 10 (2018):
4309–4342, doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1216-8.
2016 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Compositional Signaling in a Complex
World,” Journal of Logic, Language and Information 25,
no. 3 (2016): 379–397, doi:10.1007/s10849-016-9236-9.
2016 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Compositionality and Competition in Monkey
Alert Calls,” Theoretical Linguistics 42, no. 1–2
(2016): 159–171, doi:10.1515/tl-2016-0009.
2016 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Some Properties of Iterated Languages,”
Journal of Logic, Language and Information 25, no. 2 (2016):
191–213, doi:10.1007/s10849-016-9239-6.
2013/2016 Grigori Mints and Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “ADC Method of Proof Search in Intuitionistic
Propositional Natural Deduction,” Journal of Logic and
Computation 26, no. 1 (2016): 395–408, doi:10.1093/logcom/ext032.
2013 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld and Thomas F. Icard III. “Iterating Semantic
Automata,” Linguistics and Philosophy 36, no. 2 (2013):
151–173, doi:10.1007/s10988-013-9132-6.
2012 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld, Siamak Ardekani, J.L.V. Jose LV Mejino, Landon T
L.T. Detwiler, J.F. James F Brinkley, Michael Halle, Ron Kikinis,
Raimond L R.L. Winslow, M.I. Michael I Miller, and J.T. Tilak
Ratnanather “Ontological Labels for Automated Location of
Anatomical Shape Differences,” Journal of Biomedical
Informatics 45, no. 3 (2012): 522–527, doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2012.02.013.
(NB: An * next to the year indicates abstract, as opposed to full paper, review.)
2022 Chih-chan Tien and
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld “Bilingual Alignment Transfers to
Multilingual Alignment for Unsupervised Parallel Text Mining,” in
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (presented at the
ACL 2022, Dublin, Ireland: Association for Computational Linguistics,
2022), 8696–8706, https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.595.
2022 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld, Xuhui Zhou, Zeyu Liu, and C. M. Downey
“Emergent Communication Fine-Tuning (EC-FT) for Pretrained
Language Models,” 2022, https://openreview.net/forum?id=SUqrM7WR7W5.
2021 Naomi Shapiro,
Amandalynne Paullada, and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld “A Multilabel
Approach to Morphosyntactic Probing,” in Findings of the
Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 (presented at
the EMNLP-Findings 2021, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic: Association for
Computational Linguistics, 2021), 4486–4524, doi:10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.382.
2021 Jaap Jumelet, Milica Denic,
Jakub Szymanik, Dieuwke Hupkes, and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
“Language Models Use Monotonicity to Assess NPI Licensing,”
in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics:
ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (presented at the Findings 2021, Online:
Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021), 4958–4969, doi:10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.439.
2021 Iris van de Pol,
Paul Lodder, Leendert van Maanen, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, and Jakub
Szymanik “Quantifiers Satisfying Semantic Universals Are
Simpler,” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society 43, no. 43 (2021), https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vm445rp.
2020 Chuanrong
Li, Lin Shengshuo, Zeyu Liu, Xinyi Wu, Xuhui Zhou, and Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Linguistically-Informed Transformations (LIT):
A Method for Automatically Generating Contrast Sets,” in
Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and
Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (presented at the
BlackboxNLP-EMNLP 2020, Online: Association for Computational
Linguistics, 2020), 126–135, doi:10.18653/v1/2020.blackboxnlp-1.12.
2020 Nur Geffen Lan,
Emmanuel Chemla, and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld “On the Spontaneous
Emergence of Discrete and Compositional Signals,” in
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for
Computational Linguistics, 2020), 4794–4800, doi:10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.433.
2020* Milica Denić,
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, and Jakub Szymanik
“Complexity/Informativeness Trade-Off in the Domain of Indefinite
Pronouns,” in Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory
(SALT 30), vol. 30, 2020, 166–184, doi:10.3765/salt.v30i0.4811.
2020* Sonia Ramotowska, Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld, Leendert Van Maanen, and Jakub Szymanik “Most,
but Not More Than Half, Is Proportion-Dependent and Sensitive to
Individual Differences,” Proceedings of Sinn Und
Bedeutung 24, no. 2 (2020): 165–182, doi:10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.891.
2019* Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Quantifiers in Natural Language Optimize the
Simplicity/Informativeness Trade-Off,” in Proceedings of the
22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, ed. Julian J Schl"{o}der, Dean McHugh,
and Floris Roelofsen, 2019, 513–522.
2019 Fausto Carcassi,
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, and Jakub Szymanik “The Emergence of
Monotone Quantifiers via Iterated Learning,” in Proceedings
of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci
2019), 2019, 190–196, https://psyarxiv.com/8swtd.
2019 Iris van de Pol,
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, and Jakub Szymanik “Complexity and
Learnability in the Explanation of Semantic Universals of
Quantifiers,” in Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019), 2019, 3015–3021, https://psyarxiv.com/f8dbp/.
2019 Lewis O’Sullivan
and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld “Neural Models of the Psychosemantics
of ‘Most’,” in Proceedings of the Workshop on
Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (Stroudsburg, PA,
USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019), 140–151, doi:10.18653/v1/W19-2916.
2018 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Paying Attention to Function Words,” in
Emergent Communication Workshop @ NeurIPS 2018, 2018, http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11060.
2018 Sandro Pezzelle, Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld, Raffaella Bernardi, and Jakub Szymanik “Some
of Them Can Be Guessed! Exploring the Effect of Linguistic Context in
Predicting Quantifiers,” in Proceedings of the 56th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2:
Short Papers) (presented at the ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia:
Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018), 114–119, doi:10.18653/v1/P18-2019.
2017* Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Uniform Definability in Assertability
Semantics,” in Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam
Colloquium, ed. Alexandre Cremers, Thom van Gessel, and Floris
Roelofsen, 2017, 445–454.
2015 Peter Hawke and Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “Informational Dynamics of ‘Might’
Assertions,” in Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, ed.
Wiebe van der Hoek, Wesley H. Holliday, and Wen-fang Wang, Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015), 143–155,
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-48561-3_12.
2015* Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld, Gert-Jan Munneke, and Jakub Szymanik
“Alternative Representations in Formal Semantics: A Case Study of
Quantifiers,” in Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam
Colloquium, ed. Thomas Brochhagen, Floris Roelofsen, and Nadine
Thelier, 2015, 368–378.
2014 Shane
Steinert-Threlkeld “On the Decidability of Iterated
Languages,” in Proceedings of Philosophy, Mathematics,
Linguistics: Aspects of Interaction (PhML2014), ed. Oleg Prosorov,
2014, 215–224.
2013 Jakub
Szymanik, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Marcin Zajenkowski, and Thomas F.
Icard III. “Automata and Complexity in Multiple-Quantifier
Sentence Verification,” in Proceedings of the 12th
International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2013.
2011 S.
Steinert-Threlkeld, S. Ardekani, J.L.V. Mejinoz, L.T. Detwilerz, J.F.
Brinkleyz, M. Halle, R. Kikinis, R.L. Winslowy, M.I. Miller, and J.T.
Ratnanather “Ontological Labels for Automated Location of Left
Ventricular Remodeling,” in Proceedings - 5th IEEE
International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2011, 2011,
doi:10.1109/ICSC.2011.99.
(NB: this and the rest of the CV are woefully incomplete right now, but will be updated soon.)
05/19/2022 Cognitive Semantics and Quantities closing
workshop
03/30/2022 Center for Linguistic Theory and Studies in
Probability (CLASP) @ Gothenburg
03/04/2022 Allyson Ettinger lab @ Chicago
09/08/2021 Computational Psycholinguistics Lab @ MIT
(PI: Levy)
06/17/2021 Konstanz Philosophy Colloquium
02/17/2021 Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical
Perspectives (@ Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10/01/2020 Computation and Langauge Lab @ Berkeley (PI:
Piantadosi)
02/22/2021 Montana State University Computer Science
Colloquium
06/12/2019 Workshop in Honor of Johan van Benthem’s 70th
Birthday
05/24/2019 Social Models of Meaning Acquisition (U
Warsaw)
04/17/2019 Universität Osnabrück Institute of Cognitive
Science Colloquium
04/05/2019 AwesomeIT Symposium (U Amsterdam)
03/07/2019 Logic and Interactive Rationality Seminar
(ILLC, Amsterdam)
02/20/2019 University of Washington Linguistics
Colloquium
01/24/2019 Cornell University Linguistics Colloquium
12/15/2018 Workshop on Universals in the Modal Domain
(Utrecht)
09/10/2018 Cognition, Language and Communication Seminar
(Amsterdam)
11/14/2017 Computational Linguistics Seminar
(Amsterdam)
11/10/2017 Paris-Amsterdam-London Meeting
09/28/2017 Cognitive Semantics and Quantities kick-off
workshop
06/26/2017 Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence
Boundary (with Peter Hawke)
03/22/2017 Institut Jean Nicod
12/11/2015 Center for Logic, Language, and Mind
(Stockholm University)
12/10/2015 Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy
(Stockholm University)
05/31/2015 Fourth CSLI Workshop on Logic, Rationality
and Intelligent Interaction
04/14/2015 Stanford Mathematical Logic Seminar
12/11/2013 Knowledge, Argumentation and Games in
Amsterdam
01/09/2014 Cognition and Language Workshop
05/14/2013 Stanford Mathematical Logic Seminar
06/02/2012 First CSLI Workshop on Logic, Rationality and
Intelligent Interaction
06/10/2022 Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 32)
LING 571 Deep Processing Methods for NLP: Aut ’19, ’20, ’21
LING 572 Advanced Statistical Methods for NLP: Win ’20
LING 574 Deep Learning for NLP: Spr ’21, ’22
LING 575 Analyzing Neural Language Models: Win ’20, Spr ’21, ’22
Primary Advisor
Committee Member
Graduate Student Representative