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Characterizing the Role of Similarity in the Property Inferences of Language Models
Juan Diego Rodriguez, Aaron Mueller, Kanishka Misra
Property inheritance -- a phenomenon where novel properties are projected from higher level categories (e.g., birds) to lower level ones (e.g., sparrows) -- provides a unique windo…
A systematic framework for generating novel experimental hypotheses from language models
Kanishka Misra, Najoung Kim
Neural language models (LMs) have been shown to capture complex linguistic patterns, yet their utility in understanding human language and more broadly, human cognition, remains de…
Language Models Learn Rare Phenomena from Less Rare Phenomena: The Case of the Missing AANNs
Kanishka Misra, Kyle Mahowald
Language models learn rare syntactic phenomena, but the extent to which this is attributable to generalization vs. memorization is a major open question. To that end, we iterativel…
Experimental Contexts Can Facilitate Robust Semantic Property Inference in Language Models, but Inconsistently
Kanishka Misra, Allyson Ettinger, Kyle Mahowald
Recent zero-shot evaluations have highlighted important limitations in the abilities of language models (LMs) to perform meaning extraction. However, it is now well known that LMs…