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Universal linguistic inductive biases via meta-learning
R. Thomas McCoy, Erin Grant, Paul Smolensky +2
How do learners acquire languages from the limited data available to them? This process must involve some inductive biases - factors that affect how a learner generalizes - but it…
Evaluating Theory of Mind in Question Answering
Aida Nematzadeh, Kaylee Burns, Erin Grant +2
We propose a new dataset for evaluating question answering models with respect to their capacity to reason about beliefs. Our tasks are inspired by theory-of-mind experiments that…
The Interaction of Memory and Attention in Novel Word Generalization: A Computational Investigation
Erin Grant, Aida Nematzadeh, Suzanne Stevenson
People exhibit a tendency to generalize a novel noun to the basic-level in a hierarchical taxonomy -- a cognitively salient category such as "dog" -- with the degree of generalizat…