4 papers
Anything Goes? A Crosslinguistic Study of (Im)possible Language Learning in LMs
Xiulin Yang, Tatsuya Aoyama, Yuekun Yao +1
Do language models (LMs) offer insights into human language learning? A common argument against this idea is that because their architecture and training paradigm are so vastly dif…
Task Arithmetic with Support Languages for Low-Resource ASR
Emma Rafkin, Dan DeGenaro, Xiulin Yang
The development of resource-constrained approaches to automatic speech recognition (ASR) is of great interest due to its broad applicability to many low-resource languages for whic…
When Does Meaning Backfire? Investigating the Role of AMRs in NLI
Junghyun Min, Xiulin Yang, Shira Wein
Natural Language Inference (NLI) relies heavily on adequately parsing the semantic content of the premise and hypothesis. In this work, we investigate whether adding semantic infor…
Language Models at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A Case Study of the Long-Distance Binding of Chinese Reflexive ziji
Xiulin Yang
This paper explores whether language models can effectively resolve the complex binding patterns of the Mandarin Chinese reflexive ziji, which are constrained by both syntactic and…