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05/29/2023
A Method for Studying Semantic Construal in Grammatical Constructions with Interpretable Contextual Embedding Spaces
We study semantic construal in grammatical constructions using large lan...
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05/25/2023
Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias
While existing work on studying bias in NLP focues on negative or pejora...
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05/17/2023
Elaborative Simplification as Implicit Questions Under Discussion
Automated text simplification, a technique useful for making text more a...
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02/16/2023
Keep it Neutral: Using Natural Language Inference to Improve Generation
We explore incorporating natural language inference (NLI) into the text ...
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01/29/2023
A Discerning Several Thousand Judgments: GPT-3 Rates the Article + Adjective + Numeral + Noun Construction
Knowledge of syntax includes knowledge of rare, idiosyncratic constructi...
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01/16/2023
Dissociating language and thought in large language models: a cognitive perspective
Today's large language models (LLMs) routinely generate coherent, gramma...
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12/19/2022
Inducing Character-level Structure in Subword-based Language Models with Type-level Interchange Intervention Training
Language tasks involving character-level manipulations (e.g., spelling c...
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11/01/2022
Why is Winoground Hard? Investigating Failures in Visuolinguistic Compositionality
Recent visuolinguistic pre-trained models show promising progress on var...
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06/29/2022
longhorns at DADC 2022: How many linguists does it take to fool a Question Answering model? A systematic approach to adversarial attacks
Developing methods to adversarially challenge NLP systems is a promising...
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06/06/2022
What do tokens know about their characters and how do they know it?
Pre-trained language models (PLMs) that use subword tokenization schemes...
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03/11/2022
When classifying grammatical role, BERT doesn't care about word order... except when it matters
Because meaning can often be inferred from lexical semantics alone, word...
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01/30/2022
Grammatical cues are largely, but not completely, redundant with word meanings in natural language
The combinatorial power of language has historically been argued to be e...
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09/13/2021
A Massively Multilingual Analysis of Cross-linguality in Shared Embedding Space
In cross-lingual language models, representations for many different lan...
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04/29/2021
How (Non-)Optimal is the Lexicon?
The mapping of lexical meanings to wordforms is a major feature of natur...
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04/17/2021
Decrypting Cryptic Crosswords: Semantically Complex Wordplay Puzzles as a Target for NLP
Cryptic crosswords, the dominant English-language crossword variety in t...
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01/26/2021
Deep Subjecthood: Higher-Order Grammatical Features in Multilingual BERT
We investigate how Multilingual BERT (mBERT) encodes grammar by examinin...
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10/13/2020
With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility
Despite its importance to experimental design, statistical power (the pr...
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