CALaMo: a Constructionist Assessment of Language Models

Ludovica Pannitto, Aurélie Herbelot


Abstract
This paper presents a novel framework for evaluating Neural Language Models’ linguistic abilities using a constructionist approach. Not only is the usage-based model in line with the un- derlying stochastic philosophy of neural architectures, but it also allows the linguist to keep meaning as a determinant factor in the analysis. We outline the framework and present two possible scenarios for its application.
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2023.cxgsnlp-1.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)
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March
Year:
2023
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Washington, D.C.
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Claire Bonial, Harish Tayyar Madabushi
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CxGsNLP | SyntaxFest
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SIGPARSE
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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21–30
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Ludovica Pannitto and Aurélie Herbelot. 2023. CALaMo: a Constructionist Assessment of Language Models. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023), pages 21–30, Washington, D.C.. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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