Marie-Pauline Krielke

A Closer Look at Linguistic Knowledge in Masked Language Models: The Case of Relative Clauses in American English

Transformer-based language models achieve high performance on various tasks, but we still lack understanding of the kind of linguistic knowledge they learn and rely on. We evaluate three models (BERT, RoBERTa, and ALBERT), testing their grammatical and semantic knowledge by sentence-level probing, d…