About me

I am a third-year PhD student in the Stanford linguistics department, advised by Judith Degen, Beth Levin, and Dan Jurafsky. I work on issues related to speech production, including how we reconcile meaning and ease of production to select between similar utterance alternatives (like “load the truck with wood” vs “load wood onto the truck”). In this work, I use a combination of human experimentation and computational modelling.

Before coming to Stanford, I received a B.A and M.A. in the McGill linguistics department, where I was a member of the McQll Lab. In 2020 I was also a research intern at ElementAI (now ServiceNow), advised by Dzmitry Bahdanau.

You can see my CV here or check out the list of publications below.

Updates

• November 2024: I will be presenting at CAMP [7], at UC San Diego!
• September 2024: I presented a poster at Xprag 5
• July 2024: I presented a poster at Cogsci 2024
• January 2024 I presented ongoing work at CAMP [6]
• July 2023: I am honoured to be a recipient of the 2023 LSA Institute Fellowship and will be attending the institute ths summer.

Publications

Goodwin, E. & Degen, J. (2024) Production of syntactic alternations displays accessibility but not informativity effects. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Volume 46. [Proceedings]

Goodwin, E., Reddy, S., O’Donnell, T. J. & Bahdanau, D. (2022). Compositional Generalization in Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6482–6493. [Proceedings]

Goodwin, E., Sinha, K. & O’Donnell, T. J. (2020). Probing Linguistic Systematicity. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1958–1969. [Proceedings]

Conference Presentations

Goodwin, E. & Degen, J. Production of syntactic alternations displays accessibility but not informativity effects. Poster presented at: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands. July 2024. [Proceedings] [Poster]

Goodwin, E. & Degen, J. Production Preferences In The English Spray-Load Alternation: Do Speakers Prioritize Accessibility or Meaning? Poster presented at: The California Meeting on Psycholinguistics [6], Stanford University, California. January 2024. [Abstract] [Poster]

Goodwin, E., Reddy, S., O’Donnell, T. J. & Bahdanau, D. Compositional Generalization in Dependency Parsing. Talk presented at: The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland. July 2022. [Proceedings]

Goodwin, E., Sinha, K. & O’Donnell, T. J. Probing Linguistic Systematicity. Talk presented at: The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Online. July 2020. [Proceedings]

Goodwin, E., Sinha, K. & O’Donnell, T. J. Systematic Generalization in Natural Language Inference: A Linguistic Perspective. Poster presented at: 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montréal, Canada. July 2019.