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A fine-grained comparison of pragmatic language understanding in humans and language models
Jennifer Hu, Sammy Floyd, Olessia Jouravlev +2
Pragmatics and non-literal language understanding are essential to human communication, and present a long-standing challenge for artificial language models. We perform a fine-grai…
Grammatical cues to subjecthood are redundant in a majority of simple clauses across languages
Kyle Mahowald, Evgeniia Diachek, Edward Gibson +2
Grammatical cues are sometimes redundant with word meanings in natural language. For instance, English word order rules constrain the word order of a sentence like "The dog chewed…
The Natural Stories Corpus
Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson, Hal Tily +4
It is now a common practice to compare models of human language processing by predicting participant reactions (such as reading times) to corpora consisting of rich naturalistic li…
An attempted replication of Hackl, Koster-Hale, Varvoutis (2012)
Edward Gibson, Roger Levy
Hackl, Koster-Hale & Varvoutis (2012; Journal of Semantics, 29, 145-206; HKV) provide data that suggested that in a null context, antecedent-contained-deletion (ACD) relative claus…
Response to Liu, Xu, and Liang (2015) and Ferrer-i-Cancho and Gómez-Rodríguez (2015) on Dependency Length Minimization
Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Edward Gibson
We address recent criticisms (Liu et al., 2015; Ferrer-i-Cancho and Gómez-Rodríguez, 2015) of our work on empirical evidence of dependency length minimization across languages (Fut…
Information content versus word length in natural language: A reply to Ferrer-i-Cancho and Moscoso del Prado Martin [arXiv:1209.1751]
Steven T. Piantadosi, Harry Tily, Edward Gibson
Recently, Ferrer i Cancho and Moscoso del Prado Martin [arXiv:1209.1751] argued that an observed linear relationship between word length and average surprisal (Piantadosi, Tily, &…