Towards a Linguistics of AI
Cinnamonlab is a computational linguistics research group at Boston University led by Sophie Hao. Cinnamonlab takes an interdisciplinary approach to language model interpretability and its applications, incorporating ideas and perspectives from across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Our goal is to develop a linguistics of AI language models.
Cinnamonlab is affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, and the SALAMI Consortium.
News
- Nov 5, 2025: Sophie Hao presents at EMNLP!
- Oct 21, 2025: Sophie Hao presents at Harvard University!
- Oct 17, 2025: Sophie Hao presents at Stony Brook University!
- Aug 17, 2025: Sophie Hao presents at Mathematics of Language Conference!
- Apr 30, 2025: Qinchan Li presents at NAACL!
About Us
People
Cinnamonlab members come from BU’s Department of Linguistics and Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, as well as external institutions.
Research
Our research focuses on six thematic areas: analysis of representations, linguistic evaluation, theory of architectures, theoretical linguistics, AI and society, and foundations of computational linguistics.
Join Us
Become a member of Cinnamonlab by applying to the Linguistics PhD program at BU.
Learn More
See our NAQs (never-asked questions).