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• The Hittite problem 2023 Aug 10

  How do we interpret neural networks? We should start by comparing it to the geopolitical situation of early Indo-European Anatolia.

• Me and Research 2023 Mar 28

  Looking back at my research journey in NLP after getting into a Ph.D. program.

• Some intuitions about transformers 2022 Dec 24

  I've been thinking about transformers a lot recently.

• Some CCG derivations in Hindi 2022 Oct 08

  Learned about Combinatory Categorial Grammar in class, so I tried to apply it to Hindi.

• NAACL 2022 2022 Aug 04

  NAACL was the best conference experience I've ever had, no doubt about it.

• A machine-learned syntactic tagset? 2022 Jun 21

  Messing with the Kitaev et al. (2022) parser.

• Secret verb forms in Hindi 2022 May 23

  There are some strange verb forms in Hindi that I haven't seen described in any grammar or paper. I've collected some of them here.

• The -kk- verbal extension in Indo-Aryan 2022 May 03
• *ll in Indo-Aryan 2022 Feb 21

  Some notes on the development of *ll in Indo-Aryan.

• Reflexive causatives in Hindi 2022 Jan 12

  A new kind of language change?

• Sikk glossed 2021 Sep 07

  Gloss of the song by Muhammad Masood.

• Greater Magadha 2021 May 13

  Notes on the book by Johannes Bronkhorst.

• Hindi is not Sanskrit: Phonetics and Phonology 2021 Mar 08

  Hindi is not "exactly like Sanskrit" despite what some nonsensical claims say.

• Bhāṣācitra 2021 Feb 10

  Recently, I’ve been working on mapping the languages of South Asia by organising the scholarly work that has been done on individual varieties.

• New Indo-Aryan conservatisms 2020 Dec 14

  This is a list of Indo-Aryan lexical items whch can be traced to Indo-European yet have no preserved Sanskrit intermediaries.

• Why Linguistics? 2020 Dec 12

  This is a question I’ve been dealing with ever since I went down this academic path, and one that I think I will continue to grapple with for a long time: what is the point of studying linguistics?

• EMNLP 2020 2020 Nov 18

  Random stuff.

• ACL 2020 2020 Jul 10

  ACL 2020 was the most exciting event in my life so far as a proto-computational linguist. This was my first conference, and my first published research paper.

• Hindi adpositions 2020 Jun 02

  These are just some notes about Hindi SNACS that I wanted to be publicly available. I would use Google Docs, but they don't have good support for interlinear glosses. I would use Xposition, but I'm not really sure what the best place for it is there.