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Yushi Sugimoto

Associate Professor
The University of Osaka



About Me

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Osaka, and a member of Shinji Nishimoto’s lab. My current interest is computational neurolinguistics: Investigating human sentence processing in the brain by leveraging computational models.

Before joining the University of Osaka, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at University of Tokyo (Yohei Oseki’s lab). I had obtained my Ph.D in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. During my Ph.D years, I lost my advisor (Sam Epstein). However, I got lucky to have Acrisio Pires and Marlyse Baptista as my advisors. Since my Ph.D period, I’ve been collaborating with my colleagues, Alan Ke and Andrew McInnerney.

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Recent Publications

  1. Investigating Psychometric Predictive Power of Syntactic Attention
    Ryo Yoshida, Yushi Sugimoto, Yohei Oseki
    Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pp. 407-418, 2025
    Page Proceedings paper

  2. If Attention Serves as a Cognitive Model of Human Memory Retrieval, What is the Plausible Memory Representation?
    Ryo Yoshida, Shinnosuke Isono, Kohei Kajikawa, Taiga Someya, Yushi Sugimoto, Yohei Oseki
    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1, Long Papers), pp. 9795-9812, 2025
    Page Proceedings paper

  3. Lack of c-command in coordinate structures: Evidence from binding
    Alan Hezao Ke, Andrew McInnerney, Yushi Sugimoto
    Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Volume 43, pp. 2139-2178 2025
    Page Journal article

  4. JCoLA: Japanese Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability
    Taiga Someya, Yushi Sugimoto, Yohei Oseki
    Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), pp. 9477-9488, 2024
    Page Proceedings paper

  5. Localizing Syntactic Composition with Left-Corner Recurrent Neural Network Grammars
    Yushi Sugimoto, Ryo Yoshida, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Masatoshi Koizumi, Jonathan R. Brennan, Yohei Oseki
    Neurobiology of Language, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 201-224. 2024.
    Code Page Journal article

  6. Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis (Elements in Generative Syntax)
    Noam Chomsky, T. Daniel Seely, Robert C. Berwick, Sandiway Fong, M. A. C. Huybregts, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Andrew McInnerney, Yushi Sugimoto
    Cambridge University Press. 2023.
    Page Book

  7. Backgroundedness Predicts Island Status of Non-finite Adjuncts in English
    Savithry Namboodiripad, Nicole Cuneo, Mathew A Kramer, Yourdanis Sedarous, Felicia Bisnath, Yushi Sugimoto, Adele Goldberg
    Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1087-1093. 2022.
    Page Proceedings paper

  8. A Late-Insertion-Based Exoskeletal Approach to the Hybrid Nature of Functional Features in Creole Languages
    Yushi Sugimoto, Marlyse Baptista
    Languages 7:2, 2022.
    Page Journal article


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