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title = "Context Limitations Make Neural Language Models More Human-Like",
author = "Kuribayashi, Tatsuki and
Oseki, Yohei and
Brassard, Ana and
Inui, Kentaro",
editor = "Goldberg, Yoav and
Kozareva, Zornitsa and
Zhang, Yue",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
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pages = "10421--10436",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Context Limitations Make Neural Language Models More Human-Like](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.712) (Kuribayashi et al., EMNLP 2022)
ACL
- Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, Ana Brassard, and Kentaro Inui. 2022. Context Limitations Make Neural Language Models More Human-Like. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10421–10436, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.