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%T Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items
%A Jumelet, Jaap
%A Hupkes, Dieuwke
%Y Linzen, Tal
%Y Chrupała, Grzegorz
%Y Alishahi, Afra
%S Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
%D 2018
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Brussels, Belgium
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[Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items](https://aclanthology.org/W18-5424/) (Jumelet & Hupkes, EMNLP 2018)

• Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items (Jumelet & Hupkes, EMNLP 2018)

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• Jaap Jumelet and Dieuwke Hupkes. 2018. Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 222–231, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.