3 papers
cs.CL2026
CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child-Adult InTeractions
Francesca Padovani, Xiulin Yang, Bastian Bunzeck +4
CHILDES is a paramount resource for language acquisition studies -- yet computational tools for analyzing its syntactic structure remain limited. Leveraging the recent release of t…
cs.CL2026
A Unified Assessment of the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument for Neural Language Models
Xiulin Yang, Arianna Bisazza, Nathan Schneider +1
Several recent contributions have evaluated the Poverty of the Stimulus Hypothesis (PoSH) using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The results suggest that ANN-based language model…
cs.CL2025
UD-English-CHILDES: A Collected Resource of Gold and Silver Universal Dependencies Trees for Child Language Interactions
Xiulin Yang, Zhuoxuan Ju, Lanni Bu +2
CHILDES is a widely used resource of transcribed child and child-directed speech. This paper introduces UD-English-CHILDES, the first officially released Universal Dependencies (UD…