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A Formal Limitation on Learning Human Language From Textual Corpora
Emily Cheng, Ryan Cotterell
Can a listener recover what a speaker means from the form of an utterance alone? We answer this question information-theoretically, and for a listener given by any featurizer of te…
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Surprisal Theory is Tautological (without Rational Grounding)
Ryan Cotterell
Surprisal theory holds that the human processing difficulty of a linguistic unit in context is an affine function of its surprisal under some language model. I argue this claim is…