Aya Meltzer-Asscher

When the LM misunderstood the human chuckled: Analyzing garden path effects in humans and language models

Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown human-like abilities in many language tasks, sparking interest in comparing LLMs’ and humans’ language processing. In this paper, we try to answer two questions: 1. What makes garden-path sentences hard to understand for humans? 2. Do the same reasons m…