Investigating Novel Verb Learning in BERT: Selectional Preference Classes and Alternation-Based Syntactic Generalization

Previous studies investigating the syntactic abilities of deep learning models have not targeted the relationship between the strength of the grammatical generalization and the amount of evidence to which the model is exposed during training. We address this issue by deploying a novel word-lea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thrush, Tristan, Wilcox, Ethan, Levy, Roger
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computational Linguistics 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138278