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Francis Bond

2 accepted papers

2025

Comparing LLM-generated and human-authored news text using formal syntactic theory

ACL 2025long

This study provides the first comprehensive comparison of New York Times-style text generated by six large language models against real, human-authored NYT writing. The comparison is based on a formal syntactic theory. We use Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) to analyze the grammatical str…

2024

ChainNet: Structured Metaphor and Metonymy in WordNet

COLING 2024main

The senses of a word exhibit rich internal structure. In a typical lexicon, this structure is overlooked: A word’s senses are encoded as a list, without inter-sense relations. We present ChainNet, a lexical resource which for the first time explicitly identifies these structures, by expressing how s…