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Guillaume Wisniewski

4 accepted papers

2025

Beyond Surprisal: A Dual Metric Framework for Lexical Skill Acquisition in LLMs

COLING 2025main

Many studies have explored when and how LLMs learn to use specific words, primarily by examining their learning curves. While these curves capture a model’s capacity to use words correctly in context, they often neglect the equally important skill of avoiding incorrect usage. In this paper, we intro…

2023

Using Artificial French Data to Understand the Emergence of Gender Bias in Transformer Language Models

EMNLP 2023short main

Numerous studies have demonstrated the ability of neural language models to learn various linguistic properties without direct supervision. This work takes an initial step towards exploring the less researched topic of how neural models discover linguistic properties of words, such as gender, as wel…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
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
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…