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cs.CL2021
ALL Dolphins Are Intelligent and SOME Are Friendly: Probing BERT for Nouns' Semantic Properties and their Prototypicality
Marianna Apidianaki, Aina Garí Soler
Large scale language models encode rich commonsense knowledge acquired through exposure to massive data during pre-training, but their understanding of entities and their semantic…
cs.CL2021
Scalar Adjective Identification and Multilingual Ranking
Aina Garí Soler, Marianna Apidianaki
The intensity relationship that holds between scalar adjectives (e.g., nice < great < wonderful) is highly relevant for natural language inference and common-sense reasoning. Previ…
cs.CL2021
Let's Play Mono-Poly: BERT Can Reveal Words' Polysemy Level and Partitionability into Senses
Aina Garí Soler, Marianna Apidianaki
Pre-trained language models (LMs) encode rich information about linguistic structure but their knowledge about lexical polysemy remains unclear. We propose a novel experimental set…