2 papers
cs.CL2026
What Kind of Language is Easy to Language-Model Under Curriculum Learning?
Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoe
Many of the thousands of attested languages share common configurations of features, creating a spectrum from typologically very rare (e.g., object-verb-subject word order) or impo…
cs.CL2025
Which Word Orders Facilitate Length Generalization in LMs? An Investigation with GCG-Based Artificial Languages
Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoe
Whether language models (LMs) have inductive biases that favor typologically frequent grammatical properties over rare, implausible ones has been investigated, typically using arti…