What BERT Is Not: Lessons from a New Suite of Psycholinguistic Diagnostics for Language Models

Pre-training by language modeling has become a popular and successful approach to NLP tasks, but we have yet to understand exactly what linguistic capacities these pre-training processes confer upon models. In this paper we introduce a suite of diagnostics drawn from human language experiments, whic...

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Main Author: Ettinger, Allyson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2020-07-01
Series:Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/tacl_a_00298