Our final keynote speaker is also a doctoral researcher, Sam Boeve, presenting "From Tool to Theory: LLMs in Psycholinguistics". Sam presented three case studies, the last of which is based on his recent work on Dutch LLM's surprisal estimates in sentence, paragraph and book reading (https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02774-4). As previous research with English has shown, it turns out that not one size fits all and larger models are not necessarily better. 8/🧵

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We began day 2 of our Large Language Models (LLM) for linguistics research workshop @UniKoeln with a fascinating keynote by Charlotte Pouw on "Interpreting models for speech generation and understanding using methods from #psycholinguistics". Charlotte shared insights from two studies from her #PhD research. Check out the papers: https://aclanthology.org/2025.conll-1.9/ and https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/50/4/1557/123790. 7/🧵

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