Papers
ThinkStruct: RST-Aware Attention for Logical Reasoning in Machine Reading Comprehension
Nhi Thao Tran, Tien Le, Toan Pham et al.
Presupposition and Reasoning in Conditionals: A Theory-Based Study of Humans and LLMs
Tara Azin, Yongan Yu, Raj Singh et al.
Readers make targeted regressions to plausible errors in reanalysis of “noisy-channel garden-path” sentences
Thomas Hikaru Clark, Roger P. Levy, Edward Gibson
When transformers learn “impossible” languages, what do they learn?
Ram Janarthan, Coleman Haley, Sharon Goldwater
CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child–Adult InTeractions
Francesca Padovani, Xiulin Yang, Bastian Bunzeck et al.
Who Generates More Empathetic Responses—Humans or LLMs? A Comparative Evaluation with Human and LLM Judges
Anuradha Welivita, Fawzia Zeitoun, Pearl Pu
Now They See It, Now They Don’t: Multimodal Reward Models Exhibit Unreliability in Physical World Constraints
Sadaf Ghaffari, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
Symbolic Grounding Reveals Representational Bottlenecks in Abstract Visual Reasoning
Mohit Vaishnav, Tanel Tammet
Measuring the Effects of Visual Salience in Human and AI Descriptions with Image Editing
Nina Gregorio, Edoardo Ponti, Sharon Goldwater
Harnessing Linguistic Dissimilarity for Language Generalization on Unseen Low-Resource Varieties
Jinju Kim, Haeji Jung, Youjeong Roh et al.
Differences in Typological Alignment in Language Models’ Treatment of Differential Argument Marking
Iskar Deng, Nathalia Xu, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
Language Models Learn Constructional Semantics, Not To Mention Syntax: Investigating LM Understanding of Paired-Focus Constructions
Wesley Scivetti, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Nathan Schneider et al.
Child-directed speech facilitates production, not comprehension, in BabyLMs
Bastian Bunzeck, Sina Zarrieß
A Method for Learning Large-Scale Computational Construction Grammars from Semantically Annotated Corpora
Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls
What Brain Data Adds to Language Model Training
Gabriele Merlin, Omer Moussa, Mariya Toneva
Linguistic Profiling of Transformer Embedding Geometry
Lucia Domenichelli, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell’Orletta
Addressing the Ecological Fallacy in Larger LMs with Human Context
Nikita Soni, Dhruv Vijay Kunjadiya, Pratham Piyush Shah et al.
Cognitively Inspired Developmental Trajectories Improve Explore-Exploit Dynamics in Neural Agent Emergent Communication
Jan Dziewoński, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Tessa Verhoef
Collocational bootstrapping: A hypothesis about the learning of subject-verb agreement in humans and neural networks
Claire Hobbs, R. Thomas McCoy
Syntactically-guided Information Maintenance in Sentence Comprehension
Shinnosuke Isono, Kohei Kajikawa
Sense and Sensitivity: “Reasoning” Models are More Robust, but can Diverge from Human Consensus in a Legal Interpretation Task
Dawson Petersen, Abhishek Purushothama, Nathan Schneider
Word predictability estimates from language models are not robust to tokenizer vocabulary
Kien Nguyen, Suhas Arehalli
Information-Theoretic Storage Cost in Sentence Comprehension
Kohei Kajikawa, Shinnosuke Isono, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox