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most citedWhen classifying grammatical role, BERT doesn't care about word order... except when it matters

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cs.CL2025

Investigating the interaction of linguistic and mathematical reasoning in language models using multilingual number puzzles

Antara Raaghavi Bhattacharya, Isabel Papadimitriou, Kathryn Davidson +1

Across languages, numeral systems vary widely in how they construct and combine numbers. While humans consistently learn to navigate this diversity, large language models (LLMs) st…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Mission: Impossible Language Models

Julie Kallini, Isabel Papadimitriou, Richard Futrell +2

Chomsky and others have very directly claimed that large language models (LLMs) are equally capable of learning languages that are possible and impossible for humans to learn. Howe…

cs.CL2023

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff with BREAD: An open-source benchmark and metrics to detect redundancy in text

Isaac Caswell, Lisa Wang, Isabel Papadimitriou

Data quality is a problem that perpetually resurfaces throughout the field of NLP, regardless of task, domain, or architecture, and remains especially severe for lower-resource lan…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Analogy in Contact: Modeling Maltese Plural Inflection

Sara Court, Andrea D. Sims, Micha Elsner

Maltese is often described as having a hybrid morphological system resulting from extensive contact between Semitic and Romance language varieties. Such a designation reflects an e…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

When classifying grammatical role, BERT doesn't care about word order... except when it matters

Isabel Papadimitriou, Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald

Because meaning can often be inferred from lexical semantics alone, word order is often a redundant cue in natural language. For example, the words chopped, chef, and onion are mor…

cs.CL2021

Deep Subjecthood: Higher-Order Grammatical Features in Multilingual BERT

Isabel Papadimitriou, Ethan A. Chi, Richard Futrell +1

We investigate how Multilingual BERT (mBERT) encodes grammar by examining how the high-order grammatical feature of morphosyntactic alignment (how different languages define what c…