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When a sentence does not introduce a discourse entity, Transformer-based models still sometimes refer to it
Sebastian Schuster, Tal Linzen
Understanding longer narratives or participating in conversations requires tracking of discourse entities that have been mentioned. Indefinite noun phrases (NPs), such as 'a dog',…
Coloring the Blank Slate: Pre-training Imparts a Hierarchical Inductive Bias to Sequence-to-sequence Models
Aaron Mueller, Robert Frank, Tal Linzen +2
Relations between words are governed by hierarchical structure rather than linear ordering. Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models, despite their success in downstream NLP applicati…
NOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English
Alicia Parrish, Sebastian Schuster, Alex Warstadt +5
Understanding language requires grasping not only the overtly stated content, but also making inferences about things that were left unsaid. These inferences include presupposition…
Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection
Joakim Nivre, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Filip Ginter +6
Universal Dependencies is an open community effort to create cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages within a dependency-based lexicalist framework.…
Harnessing the linguistic signal to predict scalar inferences
Sebastian Schuster, Yuxing Chen, Judith Degen
Pragmatic inferences often subtly depend on the presence or absence of linguistic features. For example, the presence of a partitive construction (of the) increases the strength of…
Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Multilingual Task Oriented Dialog
Sebastian Schuster, Sonal Gupta, Rushin Shah +1
One of the first steps in the utterance interpretation pipeline of many task-oriented conversational AI systems is to identify user intents and the corresponding slots. Since data…