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The Structural Sources of Verb Meaning Revisited: Large Language Models Display Syntactic Bootstrapping
Xiaomeng Zhu, R. Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank
Syntactic bootstrapping (Gleitman, 1990) is the hypothesis that children use the syntactic environments in which a verb occurs to learn its meaning. In this paper, we examine wheth…
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Meaning Beyond Truth Conditions: Evaluating Discourse Level Understanding via Anaphora Accessibility
Xiaomeng Zhu, Zhenghao Zhou, Simon Charlow +1
We present a hierarchy of natural language understanding abilities and argue for the importance of moving beyond assessments of understanding at the lexical and sentence levels to…