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Arabella Sinclair

2 accepted papers

2024

Do Language Models Exhibit Human-like Structural Priming Effects?

ACL 2024findings

We explore which linguistic factors—at the sentence and token level—play an important role in influencing language model predictions, and investigate whether these are reflective of results found in humans and human corpora (Gries and Kootstra, 2017). We make use of the structural priming paradigm—w…

2021

Is Information Density Uniform in Task-Oriented Dialogues?

EMNLP 2021main

The Uniform Information Density principle states that speakers plan their utterances to reduce fluctuations in the density of the information transmitted. In this paper, we test whether, and within which contextual units this principle holds in task-oriented dialogues. We show that there is evidence…