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When Is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 250 High- and Low-Resource Languages
Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Zhuowen Tu +1
Multilingual language models are widely used to extend NLP systems to low-resource languages. However, concrete evidence for the effects of multilinguality on language modeling per…
Structural Priming Demonstrates Abstract Grammatical Representations in Multilingual Language Models
James A. Michaelov, Catherine Arnett, Tyler A. Chang +1
Abstract grammatical knowledge - of parts of speech and grammatical patterns - is key to the capacity for linguistic generalization in humans. But how abstract is grammatical knowl…
Crosslingual Structural Priming and the Pre-Training Dynamics of Bilingual Language Models
Catherine Arnett, Tyler A. Chang, James A. Michaelov +1
Do multilingual language models share abstract grammatical representations across languages, and if so, when do these develop? Following Sinclair et al. (2022), we use structural p…