Sanghoun Song
2026
Do BabyLMs Wanna Learn Wanna Contraction? On the Learnability without Language-Specific Bias
Kangsan Noh | Sanghoun Song
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Kangsan Noh | Sanghoun Song
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
This study investigates whether the grammatical constraints on wanna contraction—a phenomenon traditionally cited as evidence for innate linguistic knowledge—can be learned via BabyLMs, which are designed to reflect cognitively plausible learning conditions. Two datasets were constructed from the CHILDES corpus, varying in embedded verb frequency (high vs. low) and grammaticality, and contrasting grammatical instances (object extraction contexts) with ungrammatical ones (subject extraction contexts) of wanna contractions. Using surprisal as a metric, we evaluated 24 BabyLMs from the 2024 BabyLM Challenge alongside four standard models, including BERT and GPT-2. While the standard models performed with near-perfect consistency, the BabyLMs showed modest but meaningful sensitivity, particularly those trained on larger datasets and tested on high-frequency wanna instances. In particular, only encoder-based BabyLMs captured the grammatical constraint, with babylm24_MLSM exhibiting consistent performance. Nonetheless, our findings provide evidence for limited and conditional learnability of wanna contraction by artificial learners under cognitively realistic input conditions.
2025
Assessing GPT models’ Sensitivity to Epistemic Meanings in Korean Periphrastic Construction
Yebin Lee | Sanghoun Song | Arum Kang
Proceedings of the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Yebin Lee | Sanghoun Song | Arum Kang
Proceedings of the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
2020
Plausibility and Well-formedness Acceptability Test on Deep Neural Nativeness Classification
Kwonsik Park | Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Kwonsik Park | Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Minh Le Nguyen | Mai Chi Luong | Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Minh Le Nguyen | Mai Chi Luong | Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
2015
Representing Honorifics via Individual Constraints
Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 Workshop
Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 Workshop
Building an HPSG-based Indonesian Resource Grammar (INDRA)
David Moeljadi | Francis Bond | Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 Workshop
David Moeljadi | Francis Bond | Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 Workshop
An HPSG-based Shared-Grammar for the Chinese Languages: ZHONG [|]
Zhenzhen Fan | Sanghoun Song | Francis Bond
Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 Workshop
Zhenzhen Fan | Sanghoun Song | Francis Bond
Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF) 2015 Workshop
2012
Calculating Selectional Preferences of Transitive Verbs in Korean
Sanghoun Song | Jae-Woong Choe
Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation
Sanghoun Song | Jae-Woong Choe
Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation
2010
A Computational Treatment of Korean Serial Verb Constructions
Jong-Bok Kim | Jaehyung Yang | Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Jong-Bok Kim | Jaehyung Yang | Sanghoun Song
Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Development of the Korean Resource Grammar: Towards Grammar Customization
Sanghoun Song | Jong-Bok Kim | Francis Bond | Jaehyung Yang
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Asian Language Resouces
Sanghoun Song | Jong-Bok Kim | Francis Bond | Jaehyung Yang
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Asian Language Resouces
2009
Online Search Interface for the Sejong Korean-Japanese Bilingual Corpus and Auto-interpolation of Phrase Alignment
Sanghoun Song | Francis Bond
Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW III)
Sanghoun Song | Francis Bond
Proceedings of the Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW III)
2008
The Relationship between Semantic Similarity and Subcategorization Frames in English: A Stochastic Test Using ICE-GB and WordNet
Sanghoun Song | Jae-Woong Choe
Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Sanghoun Song | Jae-Woong Choe
Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation