3 papers
cs.CL2026
What Exactly do Children Receive in Language Acquisition? A Case Study on CHILDES with Automated Detection of Filler-Gap Dependencies
Zhenghao Herbert Zhou, William Dai, Maya Viswanathan +3
Children's acquisition of filler-gap dependencies has been argued by some to depend on innate grammatical knowledge, while others suggest that the distributional evidence available…
cs.CL2025
Effect-driven interpretation: Functors for natural language composition
Dylan Bumford, Simon Charlow
Computer programs are often factored into pure components -- simple, total functions from inputs to outputs -- and components that may have side effects -- errors, changes to memor…
cs.CL2025
Meaning Beyond Truth Conditions: Evaluating Discourse Level Understanding via Anaphora Accessibility
Xiaomeng Zhu, Zhenghao Zhou, Simon Charlow +1
We present a hierarchy of natural language understanding abilities and argue for the importance of moving beyond assessments of understanding at the lexical and sentence levels to…