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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…
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, &…