Miyu Oba


2023

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Second Language Acquisition of Neural Language Models
Miyu Oba | Tatsuki Kuribayashi | Hiroki Ouchi | Taro Watanabe
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

With the success of neural language models (LMs), their language acquisition has gained much attention. This work sheds light on the second language (L2) acquisition of LMs, while previous work has typically explored their first language (L1) acquisition. Specifically, we trained bilingual LMs with a scenario similar to human L2 acquisition and analyzed their cross-lingual transfer from linguistic perspectives. Our exploratory experiments demonstrated that the L1 pretraining accelerated their linguistic generalization in L2, and language transfer configurations (e.g., the L1 choice, and presence of parallel texts) substantially affected their generalizations. These clarify their (non-)human-like L2 acquisition in particular aspects.

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BabyLM Challenge: Curriculum learning based on sentence complexity approximating language acquisition
Miyu Oba | Akari Haga | Akiyo Fukatsu | Yohei Oseki
Proceedings of the BabyLM Challenge at the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning