Papers by Yu-yin Hsu
Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal (2023.starsem-1)
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| Challenge: | In psycholinguistics, semantic attraction is a sentence processing phenomenon in which a given argument violates the selectional requirements of a verb but is not perceived by comprehenders due to its attraction to another noun in the same sentence. |
| Approach: | They used autoregressive language models to compute the sentence-level and target phrase-level Surprisal scores of a psycholinguistic dataset on semantic attraction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models are sensitive to semantic attraction, leading to reduced Surprisal scores, although none perfectly matches the human behavioral pattern. |