Papers with processing difficulty
The Natural Stories Corpus (L18-1)
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Richard Futrell, Edward Gibson, Harry J. Tily, Idan Blank, Anastasia Vishnevetsky, Steven Piantadosi, Evelina Fedorenko
| Challenge: | Existing corpora of naturalistic text do not contain the low-frequency syntactic constructions needed to distinguish between theories. |
| Approach: | They propose to compare models of language processing by comparing their ability to predict behavioral and neural measures of processing difficulty to corpora of naturalistic text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus contains low-frequency syntactic constructions while sounding fluent to native speakers. |
A Targeted Assessment of Incremental Processing in Neural Language Models and Humans (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Using by-word reaction time data, we compare incremental processing in humans and neural language models across a range of structural phenomena. |
| Approach: | They propose to scale up incremental processing in humans and language models by collecting by-word reaction time data for 16 different syntactic test suites. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outputs match human and model accuracy scores, but underpredict the difference in magnitude of incremental processing difficulty between grammatical and ungrammatically-spaced sentences. |