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Email

c.kemp@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor in Psychology
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Education
Doctorate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-9683-8737

Prof Charles Kemp

Professor in Psychology
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

123 Scholarly works
3 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Symmetry in category systems across languages
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67463-4
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Where the Cat Sat: A Multilingual Framework for Spatial Language Understanding
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.1633
  • 2021

    Journal article

    The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2025993118
  • 2020

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Categorisation, Communication and the Local Environment
  • 2020

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Categorisation, Communication and the Local Environment
  • 2019

    Research Grant

    The Dog That Didnt Bark: A Bayesian Account of Reasoning From Censored Data
  • 2007

    Journal article

    Learning overhypotheses with hierarchical Bayesian models
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00585.x
Charles Kemp

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2018
Prize for Computational Modelling of Language, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Cognitive Science Society
2015
Early Investigator Award Society of Experimental Psychologists
2011
William K Estes Early Career Award Society for Mathematical Psychology
2010
Prize for Computational Modelling of Language, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Cognitive Science Society

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    A computational analysis of lexical elaboration across languages
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2417304122
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Predicting Human Translation Difficulty with Neural Machine Translation
    DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00714
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Word reuse and combination support efficient communication of emerging concepts
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2406971121
  • 2024

    Journal article

    A Computational Approach to Identifying Cultural Keywords Across Languages
    DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13402
  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    Human Goal Recognition as Bayesian Inference: Investigating the Impact of Actions, Timing, and Goal Solvability
    DOI: 10.65109/hnjk3770
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Inductive reasoning in humans and large language models
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2023.101155
  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    Simpson’s Paradox and the Accuracy-Fluency Tradeoff in Translation
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.acl-short.9
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Quantifying Bias in Hierarchical Category Systems
    DOI: 10.1162/opmi_a_00121

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