Language Acquisition

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RESEARCHarXiv CS.CL·22d ago

Language Acquisition Device in Large Language Models

This paper proposes LAD-inspired pre-pretraining on MP-STRUCT, a formal language reflecting natural language structures, to improve Large Language Models' data efficiency. A brief pre-pretraining with MP-STRUCT matches strong formal-language baselines in token efficiency and imparts human-like resistance to structurally implausible languages.

Formal Languages Pre-pretraining Language Acquisition MP-STRUCT

RESEARCHarXiv CS.CL·22d ago

A Scalable Tool for Measuring Manner and Result Verbs in Developmental Language Research

This research introduces a scalable computational approach to measure manner and result verbs, a crucial distinction for developmental language studies. It leverages large language models for sentence annotations and trains a RoBERTa-based classifier, demonstrating promising performance on evaluation datasets.

Language Acquisition Machine Learning Natural Language Processing linguistics