Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency Task

Mengyang Qiu; Zoe Brisebois; Siena Sun

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Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency Task

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
Month:: May
Year:: 2026
Address:: Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
Editors:: Byung-Doh Oh, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Giulia Rambelli, Ece Takmaz, Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li, Ryo Yoshida
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Cite (ACL):: Mengyang Qiu, Zoe Brisebois, and Siena Sun. 2026. Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency Task. In Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pages 250–263, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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[Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency Task](https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmcl-1.19/) (Qiu et al., CMCL 2026)

Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency Task (Qiu et al., CMCL 2026)

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Mengyang Qiu, Zoe Brisebois, and Siena Sun. 2026. Can LLMs Simulate Human Behavioral Variability? A Case Study in the Phonemic Fluency Task. In Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pages 250–263, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).