About me

I am a fourth-year PhD student in the Stanford linguistics department, broadly interested in meaning. In my work, I use a combination of experimental and computational tools from psycholinguistics and NLP. I am advised by Robert Hawkins, Cory Shain, and Beth Levin; I have also been fortunate to collaborate with Judith Degen and Emily Morgan. Before coming to Stanford, I received a B.A and M.A. in the McGill linguistics department, where I was a member of the McQll Lab. In 2020 I was also a research intern at ElementAI (now ServiceNow), advised by Dzmitry Bahdanau.

You can see my CV here or check out the list of publications below.

Updates

• September 2025: I’m presenting a poster at XPRAG!
• July 2025: I’m presenting a talk at Cogsci! Slides, paper, code and associated dataset.
• March 2025: I’m presenting a poster at HSP!
• November 2024: I will be presenting at CAMP [7], at UC San Diego!
• September 2024: I presented a poster at Xprag 5
• July 2024: I presented a poster at Cogsci 2024
• January 2024 I presented ongoing work at CAMP [6]
• July 2023: I am honoured to be a recipient of the 2023 LSA Institute Fellowship and will be attending the institute ths summer.

Publications

Goodwin, E. & Degen, J. (2024) Production of syntactic alternations displays accessibility but not informativity effects. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Volume 46. [Proceedings]

Goodwin, E., Reddy, S., O’Donnell, T. J. & Bahdanau, D. (2022). Compositional Generalization in Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6482–6493. [Proceedings]

Goodwin, E., Sinha, K. & O’Donnell, T. J. (2020). Probing Linguistic Systematicity. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1958–1969. [Proceedings]

Conference Presentations

Goodwin, E. & Degen, J. Production of syntactic alternations displays accessibility but not informativity effects. Poster presented at: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands. July 2024. [Proceedings] [Poster]

Goodwin, E. & Degen, J. Production Preferences In The English Spray-Load Alternation: Do Speakers Prioritize Accessibility or Meaning? Poster presented at: The California Meeting on Psycholinguistics [6], Stanford University, California. January 2024. [Abstract] [Poster]

Goodwin, E., Reddy, S., O’Donnell, T. J. & Bahdanau, D. Compositional Generalization in Dependency Parsing. Talk presented at: The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland. July 2022. [Proceedings]

Goodwin, E., Sinha, K. & O’Donnell, T. J. Probing Linguistic Systematicity. Talk presented at: The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Online. July 2020. [Proceedings]

Goodwin, E., Sinha, K. & O’Donnell, T. J. Systematic Generalization in Natural Language Inference: A Linguistic Perspective. Poster presented at: 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montréal, Canada. July 2019.