3 papers
cs.CL2025
Unpacking Let Alone: Human-Scale Models Generalize to a Rare Construction in Form but not Meaning
Wesley Scivetti, Tatsuya Aoyama, Ethan Wilcox +1
Humans have a remarkable ability to acquire and understand grammatical phenomena that are seen rarely, if ever, during childhood. Recent evidence suggests that language models with…
cs.CL2025
Construction Identification and Disambiguation Using BERT: A Case Study of NPN
Wesley Scivetti, Nathan Schneider
Construction Grammar hypothesizes that knowledge of a language consists chiefly of knowledge of form-meaning pairs (''constructions'') that include vocabulary, general grammar rule…
cs.CL2024
GDTB: Genre Diverse Data for English Shallow Discourse Parsing across Modalities, Text Types, and Domains
Yang Janet Liu, Tatsuya Aoyama, Wesley Scivetti +6
Work on shallow discourse parsing in English has focused on the Wall Street Journal corpus, the only large-scale dataset for the language in the PDTB framework. However, the data i…