Mitja Nikolaus
Mitja Nikolaus has 3 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on Language models & pretraining, English; often with Alex Warstadt, Abdellah Fourtassi, Afra Alishahi.
OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 8 · 59 works · 200 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 11 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8508
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📚 Shelves 8The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 3 worksComputer Science · 3 worksPsychology · 3 worksDevelopmental and Educational Psychology · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work
🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 1 workLanguage models & pretraining · 1 work
💡 Concepts 1Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.Child-directed speech · 1 work
Works by year
2020s
Papers
- Learning English with Peppa Pig (2022 · 18 citations)
Neural models that learn spoken language by linking it to visual input are usually trained on images or videos paired with spoken descriptions. - Automatic Annotation of Grammaticality in Child-Caregiver Conversations (2024 · 7 citations)
The authors developed a tool that automatically assesses the grammaticality of children's utterances in naturalistic conversations between children and adults. - Towards Developmentally Plausible Rewards: Communicative Success as a Learning Signal for Interactive Language Models (2025 · 4 citations)
Language models learn by predicting the next token, while children also learn from whether their attempts to communicate succeed.
All works
- Learning English with Peppa PigTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)Mitja Nikolaus, Afra Alishahi, Grzegorz Chrupała2022 · 18 citations
- Automatic Annotation of Grammaticality in Child-Caregiver ConversationsLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)Mitja Nikolaus, Abhishek Agrawal, Petros Kaklamanis, et al.2024 · 7 citations
- Towards Developmentally Plausible Rewards: Communicative Success as a Learning Signal for Interactive Language ModelsarXiv:2505.05970Lennart Stopler, Rufat Asadli, Mitja Nikolaus, et al.2025 · 4 citations
- ChiCA: un corpus de conversations face-à-face vs. Zoom entre enfants et parents ↗Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès · no summary yetDhia Elhak Goumri et al.2024
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Venues
- Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC): LREC 2024
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL): Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2022
- Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès
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