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Benoit Crabbé

6 accepted papers

2025

On the Relation Between Fine-Tuning, Topological Properties, and Task Performance in Sense-Enhanced Embeddings

ACL 2025long

Topological properties of embeddings, such as isotropy and uniformity, are closely linked to their expressiveness, and improving these properties enhances the embeddings’ ability to capture nuanced semantic distinctions. However, fine-tuning can reduce the expressiveness of the embeddings of languag…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

CodeInsight: A Curated Dataset of Practical Coding Solutions from Stack Overflow

ACL 2024findings

We introduce a novel dataset tailored for code generation, aimed at aiding developers in common tasks. Our dataset provides examples that include a clarified intent, code snippets associated, and an average of three related unit tests. It encompasses a range of libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, and R…

2024

NuNER: Entity Recognition Encoder Pre-training via LLM-Annotated Data

EMNLP 2024main

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in data annotation, opening the way for new approaches to solve classic NLP problems. In this paper, we show how to use LLMs to create NuNER, a compact language representation model specialized in the Named Entity Recognition (NER) task. N…

2022

How Distributed are Distributed Representations? An Observation on the Locality of Syntactic Information in Verb Agreement Tasks

ACL 2022short

This work addresses the question of the localization of syntactic information encoded in the transformers representations. We tackle this question from two perspectives, considering the object-past participle agreement in French, by identifying, first, in which part of the sentence and, second, in w…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2022

The impact of lexical and grammatical processing on generating code from natural language

ACL 2022findings

Considering the seq2seq architecture of Yin and Neubig (2018) for natural language to code translation, we identify four key components of importance: grammatical constraints, lexical preprocessing, input representations, and copy mechanisms. To study the impact of these components, we use a state-o…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2021

Are Transformers a Modern Version of ELIZA? Observations on French Object Verb Agreement

EMNLP 2021main

Many recent works have demonstrated that unsupervised sentence representations of neural networks encode syntactic information by observing that neural language models are able to predict the agreement between a verb and its subject. We take a critical look at this line of research by showing that i…