3 papers
cs.CL2025
BabyLM Turns 3: Call for papers for the 2025 BabyLM workshop
Lucas Charpentier, Leshem Choshen, Ryan Cotterell +11
BabyLM aims to dissolve the boundaries between cognitive modeling and language modeling. We call for both workshop papers and for researchers to join the 3rd BabyLM competition. As…
cs.CL2024
Findings of the Second BabyLM Challenge: Sample-Efficient Pretraining on Developmentally Plausible Corpora
Michael Y. Hu, Aaron Mueller, Candace Ross +7
The BabyLM Challenge is a community effort to close the data-efficiency gap between human and computational language learners. Participants compete to optimize language model train…
cs.CL2024
The Causal Influence of Grammatical Gender on Distributional Semantics
Karolina StaÅczak, Kevin Du, Adina Williams +2
How much meaning influences gender assignment across languages is an active area of research in linguistics and cognitive science. We can view current approaches as aiming to deter…