Yan Cong
11 papers · 2021–2026 · 6 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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language model
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semantic analysis
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pre-trained language model
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discourse connective
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contextual representation
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predictive modeling
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multilingual nlp
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sentence processing
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language model evaluation
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pragmatic reasoning
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distributional semantics
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semantic embedding
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semantic space
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pre-trained model
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attention head
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language acquisition
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Papers
Exploring the Semantic Space of Second Language Learners
EACL 2026
Mechanistic Interpretability of Animacy Effects on Structure Choice in GPT-2
CoNLL 2026
Beyond Binary Animacy: A Multi-Method Investigation of LMs’ Sensitivity in English Object Relative Clauses
NAACL 2025
Modeling Chinese L2 Writing Development: The LLM-Surprisal Perspective
NAACL 2025
Comparing Static and Contextual Distributional Semantic Models on Intrinsic Tasks: An Evaluation on Mandarin Chinese Datasets
COLING 2024
Leveraging pre-trained large language models for aphasia detection in English and Chinese speakers
NAACL 2024
Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal
ACL 2023
Investigating the Effect of Discourse Connectives on Transformer Surprisal: Language Models Understand Connectives, Even So They Are Surprised
EMNLP 2023
Pre-trained Language Models’ Interpretation of Evaluativity Implicature: Evidence from Gradable Adjectives Usage in Context
NAACL 2022
Psycholinguistic Diagnosis of Language Models’ Commonsense Reasoning
ACL 2022
Pragmatic competence of pre-trained language models through the lens of discourse connectives
CoNLL 2021