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Dominique Brunato

5 accepted papers

2025

From Human Reading to NLM Understanding: Evaluating the Role of Eye-Tracking Data in Encoder-Based Models

ACL 2025long

Cognitive signals, particularly eye-tracking data, offer valuable insights into human language processing. Leveraging eye-gaze data from the Ghent Eye-Tracking Corpus, we conducted a series of experiments to examine how integrating knowledge of human reading behavior impacts Neural Language Models (…

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2025

Learning from Impairment: Leveraging Insights from Clinical Linguistics in Language Modelling Research

COLING 2025main

This position paper investigates the potential of integrating insights from language impairment research and its clinical treatment to develop human-inspired learning strategies and evaluation frameworks for language models (LMs). We inspect the theoretical underpinnings underlying some influential…

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2025

TEXT-CAKE: Challenging Language Models on Local Text Coherence

COLING 2025main

We present a deep investigation of encoder-based Language Models (LMs) on their abilities to detect text coherence across four languages and four text genres using a new evaluation benchmark, TEXT-CAKE. We analyze both multilingual and monolingual LMs with varying architectures and parameters in dif…

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2023

Coherent or Not? Stressing a Neural Language Model for Discourse Coherence in Multiple Languages

ACL 2023findings

In this study, we investigate the capability of a Neural Language Model (NLM) to distinguish between coherent and incoherent text, where the latter has been artificially created to gradually undermine local coherence within text. While previous research on coherence assessment using NLMs has primari…

2020

Linguistic Profiling of a Neural Language Model

COLING 2020main

In this paper we investigate the linguistic knowledge learned by a Neural Language Model (NLM) before and after a fine-tuning process and how this knowledge affects its predictions during several classification problems. We use a wide set of probing tasks, each of which corresponds to a distinct sen…

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