11 papers
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…
Is Child-Directed Language Optimized for Word Learning? A Computational Study of Verb Meaning Acquisition
Francesca Padovani, Jaap Jumelet, Yevgen Matusevych +1
Is child-directed language (CDL) optimized to support language learning, and which aspects of linguistic development does it facilitate? We investigate this question using neural l…
MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs
Jaap Jumelet, Leonie Weissweiler, Joakim Nivre +1
We introduce MultiBLiMP 1.0, a massively multilingual benchmark of linguistic minimal pairs, covering 101 languages and 2 types of subject-verb agreement, containing more than 128,…
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…
Assessing the Impact of Typological Features on Multilingual Machine Translation in the Age of Large Language Models
Vitalii Hirak, Jaap Jumelet, Arianna Bisazza
Despite major advances in multilingual modeling, large quality disparities persist across languages. Besides the obvious impact of uneven training resources, typological properties…
TurBLiMP: A Turkish Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs
Ezgi BaÅar, Francesca Padovani, Jaap Jumelet +1
We introduce TurBLiMP, the first Turkish benchmark of linguistic minimal pairs, designed to evaluate the linguistic abilities of monolingual and multilingual language models (LMs).…