Zander Lynch
2026
The signal is coming from inside the noun phrase! Tracking semantic proto-role inferences during sentence processing
Lucas Y. Li | Zander Lynch | Marten Van Schijndel
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026
Lucas Y. Li | Zander Lynch | Marten Van Schijndel
Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026
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.