2 papers
cs.CL2026
When transformers learn "impossible" languages, what do they learn?
Ram Janarthan, Coleman Haley, Sharon Goldwater
Recent work suggests that transformer language models show a bias towards human languages over unnatural ("impossible") languages argued to be unacquirable by humans. However, this…
cs.CL2024
A Grounded Typology of Word Classes
Coleman Haley, Sharon Goldwater, Edoardo Ponti
We propose a grounded approach to meaning in language typology. We treat data from perceptual modalities, such as images, as a language-agnostic representation of meaning. Hence, w…