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most citedWhat Syntactic Structures block Dependencies in RNN Language Models?

14 citations · 16 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2019

Hierarchical Representation in Neural Language Models: Suppression and Recovery of Expectations

Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy, Richard Futrell

Deep learning sequence models have led to a marked increase in performance for a range of Natural Language Processing tasks, but it remains an open question whether they are able t…

cs.CL201914 cited

What Syntactic Structures block Dependencies in RNN Language Models?

Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy, Richard Futrell

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) trained on a language modeling task have been shown to acquire a number of non-local grammatical dependencies with some success. Here, we provide n…

cs.CL20191 cited

Availability-Based Production Predicts Speakers' Real-time Choices of Mandarin Classifiers

Meilin Zhan, Roger Levy

Speakers often face choices as to how to structure their intended message into an utterance. Here we investigate the influence of contextual predictability on the encoding of lingu…

cs.CL20171 cited

A Statistical Comparison of Some Theories of NP Word Order

Richard Futrell, Roger Levy, Matthew Dryer

A frequent object of study in linguistic typology is the order of elements {demonstrative, adjective, numeral, noun} in the noun phrase. The goal is to predict the relative frequen…

q-bio.NC2016

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…