16 papers
JSL-DC: A Word-Level Japanese Sign Language Dataset with Linguist-Derived Descriptions for Distinguishing Confusable Signs
Ken Takaki, Asuka Ando, Misa Suzuki +12
Effective sign language (SL) acquisition is crucial for deaf children, yet 95% are born to hearing parents who often lack proficiency in SL. SL recognition can power learning tools…
Language Acquisition Device in Large Language Models
Masato Mita, Taiga Someya, Ryo Yoshida +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) remain substantially less data-efficient than humans. Pre-pretraining (PPT) on synthetic languages has been proposed to close this gap, with prior work…
Dual Alignment Between Language Model Layers and Human Sentence Processing
Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Alex Warstadt, Yohei Oseki +1
A recent study (Kuribayashi et al., 2025) has shown that human sentence processing behavior, typically measured on syntactically unchallenging constructions, can be effectively mod…
An Existence Proof for Neural Language Models That Can Explain Garden-Path Effects via Surprisal
Ryo Yoshida, Shinnosuke Isono, Taiga Someya +2
Surprisal theory hypothesizes that the difficulty of human sentence processing increases linearly with surprisal, the negative log-probability of a word given its context. Computat…
Exclusive Unlearning
Mutsumi Sasaki, Kouta Nakayama, Yusuke Miyao +2
When introducing Large Language Models (LLMs) into industrial applications, such as healthcare and education, the risk of generating harmful content becomes a significant challenge…
Rethinking the Relationship between the Power Law and Hierarchical Structures
Kai Nakaishi, Ryo Yoshida, Kohei Kajikawa +2
Statistical analysis of corpora provides an approach to quantitatively investigate natural languages. This approach has revealed that several power laws consistently emerge across…