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Gabriele Merlin

2 accepted papers

2024

Language models and brains align due to more than next-word prediction and word-level information

EMNLP 2024main

Pretrained language models have been shown to significantly predict brain recordings of people comprehending language. Recent work suggests that the prediction of the next word is a key mechanism that contributes to this alignment. What is not yet understood is whether prediction of the next word is…