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cs.CL2021
Does referent predictability affect the choice of referential form? A computational approach using masked coreference resolution
Laura Aina, Xixian Liao, Gemma Boleda +1
It is often posited that more predictable parts of a speaker's meaning tend to be made less explicit, for instance using shorter, less informative words. Studying these dynamics in…
cs.CL2021
The Language Model Understood the Prompt was Ambiguous: Probing Syntactic Uncertainty Through Generation
Laura Aina, Tal Linzen
Temporary syntactic ambiguities arise when the beginning of a sentence is compatible with multiple syntactic analyses. We inspect to which extent neural language models (LMs) exhib…