Alex Warstadt, Alicia Parrish, Haokun Liu, Anhad Mohananey, Wei Peng, Sheng-Fu Wang, Samuel R. Bowman
| Challenge: | Recent studies have examined how linguistic knowledge of language models (LMs) varies across English phenomena. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate linguistic knowledge of language models on major grammatical phenomena in English. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark evaluates the linguistic knowledge of language models on major grammatical phenomena in English. |
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