SAC Highlight Award at ACL 2026
Our paper on human-like inductive biases for improving LLM data efficiency received an SAC Highlight Award at ACL 2026.
Taiga Someya
Taiga Someya is a Ph.D. student at the University of Tokyo, focusing on natural language processing and deep learning for sports analytics. Former soccer U-15/16 Japan national team candidate and Kashiwa Reysol U-18 player.
Latest news
View all news →Invited talks at UCI and Boston University
I will give invited talks at UCI and Boston University.
Visiting scholar at NYU Center for Data Science
Joining Prof. Tal Linzen's group from Nov 2025 to May 2026.
Selected publications
View all publications →Language Acquisition Device in Large Language Models
Masato Mita, Taiga Someya, Ryo Yoshida, Yohei OsekiACL 2026
★ SAC Highlight Award
Derivational Probing: Unveiling the Layer-wise Construction of Syntactic Structures in Neural Language Models
Taiga Someya, Ryo Yoshida, Hitomi Yanaka, Yohei OsekiCoNLL 2025
★ Oral
Information Locality as an Inductive Bias for Neural Language Models
Taiga Someya, Anej Svete, Brian DuSell, Timothy J. O'Donnell, Mario Giulianelli, Ryan CotterellACL 2025
★ Oral + Panel (Top 0.8%)
Targeted Syntactic Evaluations on the Chomsky Hierarchy
Taiga Someya, Ryo Yoshida, Yohei OsekiLREC-COLING 2024
★ Best Paper Award (1/1554; Top 0.06%)
