Kyle Mahowald
31 papers · 2020–2026 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences
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Papers
Mechanisms of Prompt-Induced Hallucination in VisionโLanguage Models
ACL 2026
From sunblock to softblock: Analyzing the correlates of neology in published writing and on social media
EACL 2026
Is It JUST Semantics? A Case Study of Discourse Particle Understanding in LLMs
ACL 2025
Constructions are Revealed in Word Distributions
EMNLP 2025
To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
ICLR 2025
Causal Interventions Reveal Shared Structure Across English FillerโGap Constructions
EMNLP 2025
Convergence and Divergence of Language Models under Different Random Seeds
EMNLP 2025
Language Models Learn Rare Phenomena from Less Rare Phenomena: The Case of the Missing AANNs
EMNLP 2024
Experimental Contexts Can Facilitate Robust Semantic Property Inference in Language Models, but Inconsistently
EMNLP 2024
Do *they* mean โusโ? Interpreting Referring Expression variation under Intergroup Bias
EMNLP 2024
Mission: Impossible Language Models
ACL 2024
For Generated Text, Is NLI-Neutral Text the Best Text?
EMNLP 2023
A Method for Studying Semantic Construal in Grammatical Constructions with Interpretable Contextual Embedding Spaces
ACL 2023
Inducing Character-level Structure in Subword-based Language Models with Type-level Interchange Intervention Training
ACL 2023
Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias
ACL 2023
Lil-Bevo: Explorations of Strategies for Training Language Models in More Humanlike Ways
CONLL 2023
A Discerning Several Thousand Judgments: GPT-3 Rates the Article + Adjective + Numeral + Noun Construction
EACL 2023
Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths
EMNLP 2023
Elaborative Simplification as Implicit Questions Under Discussion
EMNLP 2023
Lil-Bevo: Explorations of Strategies for Training Language Models in More Humanlike Ways
EMNLP 2023
Counterfactually Probing Language Identity in Multilingual Models
EMNLP 2023
When classifying grammatical role, BERT doesnโt care about word order... except when it matters
ACL 2022
Why is Winoground Hard? Investigating Failures in Visuolinguistic Compositionality
EMNLP 2022
What do tokens know about their characters and how do they know it?
NAACL 2022
longhorns at DADC 2022: How many linguists does it take to fool a Question Answering model? A systematic approach to adversarial attacks.
NAACL 2022
Investigating Information-Theoretic Properties of the Typology of Spatial Demonstratives
NAACL 2022
Decrypting Cryptic Crosswords: Semantically Complex Wordplay Puzzles as a Target for NLP
NIPS 2021
Deep Subjecthood: Higher-Order Grammatical Features in Multilingual BERT
EACL 2021
A Massively Multilingual Analysis of Cross-linguality in Shared Embedding Space
EMNLP 2021
How (Non-)Optimal is the Lexicon?
NAACL 2021
With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility
EMNLP 2020