Surprisal and Crossword Clues Difficulty: Evaluating Linguistic Processing between LLMs and Humans

Tommaso Iaquinta; Asya Zanollo; Achille Fusco; Kamyar Zeinalipour; Cristiano Chesi

Surprisal and Crossword Clues Difficulty: Evaluating Linguistic Processing between LLMs and Humans

Tommaso Iaquinta, Asya Zanollo, Achille Fusco, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Cristiano Chesi

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[Surprisal and Crossword Clues Difficulty: Evaluating Linguistic Processing between LLMs and Humans](https://aclanthology.org/2025.clicit-1.50/) (Iaquinta et al., CLiC-it 2025)

Surprisal and Crossword Clues Difficulty: Evaluating Linguistic Processing between LLMs and Humans (Iaquinta et al., CLiC-it 2025)

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Tommaso Iaquinta, Asya Zanollo, Achille Fusco, Kamyar Zeinalipour, and Cristiano Chesi. 2025. Surprisal and Crossword Clues Difficulty: Evaluating Linguistic Processing between LLMs and Humans. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025), pages 512–525, Cagliari, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.