@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-signal,
    title = "The signal is coming from inside the noun phrase! Tracking semantic proto-role inferences during sentence processing",
    author = "Li, Lucas Y.  and
      Lynch, Zander  and
      Schijndel, Marten Van",
    editor = "Voigt, Rob  and
      Warstadt, Alex  and
      Feldman, Naomi  and
      Linzen, Tal",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, CA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.scil-main.40/",
    pages = "427--441",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-412-5",
    abstract = "Semantic roles between a predicate and argument can be decomposed into proto-role properties (e.g.,Instigation). We introduce a novel LLM feature attribution method, Generalized Contextual Decomposition for Transformers (GCD-T), which we use to probe which parts of a sentence enable models to infer proto-role properties. We compare our findings with human inferences."
}