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most citedA Property Induction Framework for Neural Language Models

10 citations · 12 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CL2026

From Execution to Education: A Bloom-Aligned Framework for Measuring Educational Control in LLMs

Yi Zhang, Julia Rayz

We introduce a Bloom-aligned framework for measuring educational control in Large Language Models (LLMs): the ability to preserve a task's instructional intent while shifting its c…

cs.CL2025

A Fuzzy Evaluation of Sentence Encoders on Grooming Risk Classification

Geetanjali Bihani, Julia Rayz

With the advent of social media, children are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the risk of grooming in online settings. Detecting grooming instances in an online conversation po…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Evaluating Language Models on Grooming Risk Estimation Using Fuzzy Theory

Geetanjali Bihani, Tatiana Ringenberg, Julia Rayz

Encoding implicit language presents a challenge for language models, especially in high-risk domains where maintaining high precision is important. Automated detection of online ch…

cs.CL2024

The Reliability Paradox: Exploring How Shortcut Learning Undermines Language Model Calibration

Geetanjali Bihani, Julia Rayz

The advent of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has enabled significant performance gains in the field of natural language processing. However, recent studies have found PLMs to s…

cs.CL2024

Hire Me or Not? Examining Language Model's Behavior with Occupation Attributes

Damin Zhang, Yi Zhang, Geetanjali Bihani +1

With the impressive performance in various downstream tasks, large language models (LLMs) have been widely integrated into production pipelines, like recruitment and recommendation…

cs.CL2024

Learning Shortcuts: On the Misleading Promise of NLU in Language Models

Geetanjali Bihani, Julia Taylor Rayz

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has enabled significant performance gains in the field of natural language processing. However, recent studies have found that LLMs often…

cs.LG2023

Calibration Error Estimation Using Fuzzy Binning

Geetanjali Bihani, Julia Taylor Rayz

Neural network-based decisions tend to be overconfident, where their raw outcome probabilities do not align with the true decision probabilities. Calibration of neural networks is…

cs.CL2023

Counteracts: Testing Stereotypical Representation in Pre-trained Language Models

Damin Zhang, Julia Rayz, Romila Pradhan

Recently, language models have demonstrated strong performance on various natural language understanding tasks. Language models trained on large human-generated corpus encode not o…

cs.CL2022

COMPS: Conceptual Minimal Pair Sentences for testing Robust Property Knowledge and its Inheritance in Pre-trained Language Models

Kanishka Misra, Julia Taylor Rayz, Allyson Ettinger

A characteristic feature of human semantic cognition is its ability to not only store and retrieve the properties of concepts observed through experience, but to also facilitate th…

cs.CL2022★ 10 cited

A Property Induction Framework for Neural Language Models

Kanishka Misra, Julia Taylor Rayz, Allyson Ettinger

To what extent can experience from language contribute to our conceptual knowledge? Computational explorations of this question have shed light on the ability of powerful neural la…

cs.CL2022

On Information Hiding in Natural Language Systems

Geetanjali Bihani, Julia Taylor Rayz

With data privacy becoming more of a necessity than a luxury in today's digital world, research on more robust models of privacy preservation and information security is on the ris…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Do language models learn typicality judgments from text?

Kanishka Misra, Allyson Ettinger, Julia Taylor Rayz

Building on research arguing for the possibility of conceptual and categorical knowledge acquisition through statistics contained in language, we evaluate predictive language model…

cs.CL2021

Low Anisotropy Sense Retrofitting (LASeR) : Towards Isotropic and Sense Enriched Representations

Geetanjali Bihani, Julia Taylor Rayz

Contextual word representation models have shown massive improvements on a multitude of NLP tasks, yet their word sense disambiguation capabilities remain poorly explained. To addr…

cs.CL2021

Fuzzy Classification of Multi-intent Utterances

Geetanjali Bihani, Julia Taylor Rayz

Current intent classification approaches assign binary intent class memberships to natural language utterances while disregarding the inherent vagueness in language and the corresp…

cs.CL2021

Finding Fuzziness in Neural Network Models of Language Processing

Kanishka Misra, Julia Taylor Rayz

Humans often communicate by using imprecise language, suggesting that fuzzy concepts with unclear boundaries are prevalent in language use. In this paper, we test the extent to whi…

cs.CL2021

Modeling Fuzzy Cluster Transitions for Topic Tracing

Xiaonan Jing, Yi Zhang, Qingyuan Hu +1

Twitter can be viewed as a data source for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. The continuously updating data streams on Twitter make it challenging to trace real-time topic e…

cs.CL2021

Tracing Topic Transitions with Temporal Graph Clusters

Xiaonan Jing, Qingyuan Hu, Yi Zhang +1

Twitter serves as a data source for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. It can be challenging to identify topics on Twitter due to continuous updating data stream. In thi…

cs.CL2021

Exploring Lexical Irregularities in Hypothesis-Only Models of Natural Language Inference

Qingyuan Hu, Yi Zhang, Kanishka Misra +1

Natural Language Inference (NLI) or Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) is the task of predicting the entailment relation between a pair of sentences (premise and hypothesis). Thi…