John praised Mary because _he_? Implicit Causality Bias and Its Interaction with Explicit Cues in LMs (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Psycholinguists have identified one such cue in the implicit causality bias of interpersonal verbs. |
| Approach: | They propose to use pre-trained language models to encode IC bias at inference time . they hypothesize that when a cause is explicitly stated, an incongruent IC biased leads to a delay in human processing. |
| Outcome: | The results suggest that pre-trained language models tend to prioritize lexical patterns over higher-order signals. |
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