Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

Exposure is Optional: Learning Unlike Coordination in Language Models

Coordination, a fundamental linguistic structure, remains a subject of intense debate, and its exact nature continues to elude theoretical linguistics. A common view holds that only same-category constituents can be conjoined, which has been challenged by the many grammatical unlike coordinations found in natural language.

arXiv AI
Sep 7

Patterns of Priming in Production: Lexical, Semantic and Structural Alignment in Language Model Generation

The paper studies structural priming in language model production by conducting controlled sentence‑completion experiments on dative constructions. Results show that language models exhibit priming effects, especially when sentences are semantically coherent, with stronger relative increases for double‑object datives and larger absolute increases for prepositional‑object datives. The study also finds that primed completions involve more lexico‑semantic repetition, indicating that priming operates across syntactic, lexical, and semantic levels.

By Giulia Pucci, Ruizhe Li, Arabella Sinclair