5 papers
Blackbird Language Matrices: A Framework to Investigate the Linguistic Competence of Language Models
Paola Merlo, Chunyang Jiang, Giuseppe Samo +1
This article describes a novel language task, the Blackbird Language Matrices (BLM) task, inspired by intelligence tests, and illustrates the BLM datasets, their construction and b…
Challenging the Abilities of Large Language Models in Italian: a Community Initiative
Malvina Nissim, Danilo Croce, Viviana Patti +78
The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed natural language processing and broadened its impact across research and society. Yet, systematic evaluation of t…
Analogical Structure, Minimal Contextual Cues and Contrastive Distractors: Input Design for Sample-Efficient Linguistic Rule Induction
Chunyang Jiang, Paola Merlo
Large language models achieve strong performance on many tasks, but their training makes it hard to see which properties of the input support efficient linguistic rule learning. We…
Exploring Italian sentence embeddings properties through multi-tasking
Vivi Nastase, Giuseppe Samo, Chunyang Jiang +1
We investigate to what degree existing LLMs encode abstract linguistic information in Italian in a multi-task setting. We exploit curated synthetic data on a large scale -- several…
Exploring syntactic information in sentence embeddings through multilingual subject-verb agreement
Vivi Nastase, Chunyang Jiang, Giuseppe Samo +1
In this paper, our goal is to investigate to what degree multilingual pretrained language models capture cross-linguistically valid abstract linguistic representations. We take the…