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cs.CL2023
Causal interventions expose implicit situation models for commonsense language understanding
Takateru Yamakoshi, James L. McClelland, Adele E. Goldberg +1
Accounts of human language processing have long appealed to implicit ``situation models'' that enrich comprehension with relevant but unstated world knowledge. Here, we apply causa…
cs.CL2020
Investigating representations of verb bias in neural language models
Robert D. Hawkins, Takateru Yamakoshi, Thomas L. Griffiths +1
Languages typically provide more than one grammatical construction to express certain types of messages. A speaker's choice of construction is known to depend on multiple factors,…
cs.CL2020
Generalizing meanings from partners to populations: Hierarchical inference supports convention formation on networks
Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Adele E. Goldberg +1
A key property of linguistic conventions is that they hold over an entire community of speakers, allowing us to communicate efficiently even with people we have never met before. A…