Visiting scholar at NYU Center for Data Science
Joining Prof. Tal Linzen's group from Nov 2025 to May 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.
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View all news →Two papers accepted to ACL 2025 and one to CoNLL 2025
Presenting work on information locality, attention as memory, and derivational probing.
KAKUSEI Project "Ha" Outstanding Achievement Award
Recognized for large-scale multimodal model research.
Selected publications
View all publications →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%)
Tree-Planted Transformers: Unidirectional Transformer Language Models with Implicit Syntactic Supervision
Ryo Yoshida, Taiga Someya, Yohei OsekiACL 2024 Findings
