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7 papers

cs.CL2026

What's in a Name? Morphological Shortcuts by LLMs in Pharmacology

Kaijie Mo, Thomas Yang, Chantal Shaib +6

The morphological form of a word can often give cues to its meaning, but purely relying on these mappings can lead to overgeneralization in high-stakes domains. In the medical doma…

cs.CL2026

HERO'S JOURNEY: Testing Complex Rule Induction with Text Games

Anshun Asher Zheng, Kanishka Misra, David I. Beaver +1

We introduce HERO'S JOURNEY, a benchmark for rule induction in goal-directed episodic tasks, where agents must infer hidden rules from demonstrations and act on them through multi-…

cs.CL2026

Which course? Discourse! Teaching Discourse and Generation in the Era of LLMs

Junyi Jessy Li, Yang Janet Liu, Kanishka Misra +2

The field of NLP has undergone vast, continuous transformations over the past few years, sparking debates going beyond discipline boundaries. This begs important questions in educa…

cs.CL2026

WUGNECTIVES: Novel Entity Inferences of Language Models from Discourse Connectives

Daniel Brubaker, William Sheffield, Junyi Jessy Li +1

The role of world knowledge has been particularly crucial to predict the discourse connective that marks the discourse relation between two arguments, with language models (LMs) be…

cs.CL2026

Bears, all bears, and some bears. Language Constraints on Language Models' Inductive Inferences

Sriram Padmanabhan, Siyuan Song, Kanishka Misra

Language places subtle constraints on how we make inductive inferences. Developmental evidence by Gelman et al. (2002) has shown children (4 years and older) to differentiate among…

cs.CL2025

semantic-features: A User-Friendly Tool for Studying Contextual Word Embeddings in Interpretable Semantic Spaces

Jwalanthi Ranganathan, Rohan Jha, Kanishka Misra +1

We introduce semantic-features, an extensible, easy-to-use library based on Chronis et al. (2023) for studying contextualized word embeddings of LMs by projecting them into interpr…