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Comparing Models of Associative Meaning: An Empirical Investigation of Reference in Simple Language Games
Judy Hanwen Shen, Matthias Hofer, Bjarke Felbo +1
Simple reference games are of central theoretical and empirical importance in the study of situated language use. Although language provides rich, compositional truth-conditional s…
RNNs as psycholinguistic subjects: Syntactic state and grammatical dependency
Richard Futrell, Ethan Wilcox, Takashi Morita +1
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are the state of the art in sequence modeling for natural language. However, it remains poorly understood what grammatical characteristics of natur…
What do RNN Language Models Learn about Filler-Gap Dependencies?
Ethan Wilcox, Roger Levy, Takashi Morita +1
RNN language models have achieved state-of-the-art perplexity results and have proven useful in a suite of NLP tasks, but it is as yet unclear what syntactic generalizations they l…
Word learning and the acquisition of syntactic--semantic overhypotheses
Jon Gauthier, Roger Levy, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
Children learning their first language face multiple problems of induction: how to learn the meanings of words, and how to build meaningful phrases from those words according to sy…
Assessing Language Proficiency from Eye Movements in Reading
Yevgeni Berzak, Boris Katz, Roger Levy
We present a novel approach for determining learners' second language proficiency which utilizes behavioral traces of eye movements during reading. Our approach provides stand-alon…