SPOTLIGHT
NeTS will contribute to the organization of
CLiC-it 2027 – 13th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
20–22 September 2027
Next talks will be advertized here shortly!
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Four things we have done in the past few years:
1

Language Acquisition in Babies and Machines

In 2026, NeTS organized a series of seminars to bridge the gap between language acquisition in linguistic theory and machine learning, with Roni Katzir and Charles Yang, among others.

2

BabyLMs

The NeTS team has participated in the BabyLM Challenge competitions since 2024. The objective was to train small language models (BabyLMs) under a limited word budget, using specific architectures and morphologically driven tokenization strategies. Here the papers selected for the conference proceedings:
- Chesi et al. (2026) Exploring Linguistic Parameters in LMs
- Fusco et al. (2025) Linguistic Units as Tokens
-Chesi et al. (2024) Different Ways to Forget

3

GRAdedness and GRAmmaticality in Linguistics (T-GRA2L)

In 2024, the NeTS team began investigating the complex relationship between categorical (grammaticality) judgments and gradient (acceptability) judgments. Check some of the findings from the T-GRA2L project.

4

Can there be a Hilbert List of Syntax (yet)?

In 2013, a group of prominent generative linguists (R. Kayne, R. Frank, G. Longobardi, P. Svenonius, I. Roberts, A. Belletti, G. Cinque, A. M. Di Sciullo, D. Sportiche, L. Rizzi, M. Den Dikken, R. Manzini, N. Richards, D. Delfitto, H. van Riemsdijk, H. Haider) discussed @ NeTS core problems in linguistic theorizing.