@inproceedings{wolfman-etal-2024-hierarchical,
title = "Hierarchical syntactic structure in human-like language models",
author = "Wolfman, Michael and
Dunagan, Donald and
Brennan, Jonathan and
Hale, John",
editor = "Kuribayashi, Tatsuki and
Rambelli, Giulia and
Takmaz, Ece and
Wicke, Philipp and
Oseki, Yohei",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.cmcl-1.6/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.cmcl-1.6",
pages = "72--80",
abstract = "Language models (LMs) are a meeting point for cognitive modeling and computational linguistics. How should they be designed to serve as adequate cognitive models? To address this question, this study contrasts two Transformer-based LMs that share the same architecture. Only one of them analyzes sentences in terms of explicit hierarchical structure. Evaluating the two LMs against fMRI time series via the surprisal complexity metric, the results implicate the superior temporal gyrus. These findings underline the need for hierarchical sentence structures in word-by-word models of human language comprehension."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Hierarchical syntactic structure in human-like language models
%A Wolfman, Michael
%A Dunagan, Donald
%A Brennan, Jonathan
%A Hale, John
%Y Kuribayashi, Tatsuki
%Y Rambelli, Giulia
%Y Takmaz, Ece
%Y Wicke, Philipp
%Y Oseki, Yohei
%S Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand
%F wolfman-etal-2024-hierarchical
%X Language models (LMs) are a meeting point for cognitive modeling and computational linguistics. How should they be designed to serve as adequate cognitive models? To address this question, this study contrasts two Transformer-based LMs that share the same architecture. Only one of them analyzes sentences in terms of explicit hierarchical structure. Evaluating the two LMs against fMRI time series via the surprisal complexity metric, the results implicate the superior temporal gyrus. These findings underline the need for hierarchical sentence structures in word-by-word models of human language comprehension.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.cmcl-1.6
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.cmcl-1.6/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.cmcl-1.6
%P 72-80
Markdown (Informal)
[Hierarchical syntactic structure in human-like language models](https://aclanthology.org/2024.cmcl-1.6/) (Wolfman et al., CMCL 2024)
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