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This paper presents the first unsupervised approach to lexical semantic change that makes use of contextualised word representations. We propose a novel method that exploits the BERT neural language model to obtain representations of word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mario Giulianelli , Marco Del Tredici , Raquel Fernández

The existing methods for evaluating the inference abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have been predominantly results-centric, making it challenging to assess the inference process comprehensively. We introduce a novel approach using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Seungpil Lee , Woochang Sim , Donghyeon Shin , Wongyu Seo , Jiwon Park , Seokki Lee , Sanha Hwang , Sejin Kim , Sundong Kim

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been shown to produce estimates of psycholinguistic norms, such as valence, arousal, or concreteness, for words and multiword expressions, that correlate with human judgments. These estimates are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Thomas Hikaru Clark , Carlos Arriaga , Javier Conde , Gonzalo Martínez , Pedro Reviriego

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) refer to the phenomenon of LLMs producing responses that are coherent yet factually inaccurate. This issue undermines the effectiveness of LLMs in practical applications, necessitating research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Weihang Su , Changyue Wang , Qingyao Ai , Yiran HU , Zhijing Wu , Yujia Zhou , Yiqun Liu

In high-stake environments like emergency response or elder care, the integration of large language model (LLM), revolutionize risk assessment, resource allocation, and emergency responses in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Syed Mhamudul Hasan

Large language models have recently shown promising progress in mathematical reasoning when fine-tuned with human-generated sequences walking through a sequence of solution steps. However, the solution sequences are not formally structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Andrew J. Nam , Mengye Ren , Chelsea Finn , James L. McClelland

Understanding the internal thinking process of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the cause of hallucinations remains a key challenge. To this end, we introduce latent debate, a novel framework for interpreting model predictions through the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lihu Chen , Xiang Yin , Francesca Toni

The ability to abstract, count, and use System~2 reasoning are well-known manifestations of intelligence and understanding. In this paper, we argue, using the example of the ``Look and Say" puzzle, that although deep neural networks can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Wlodek W. Zadrozny

The need for modelling causal knowledge at different levels of granularity arises in several settings. Causal Abstraction provides a framework for formalizing this problem by relating two Structural Causal Models at different levels of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Riccardo Massidda , Sara Magliacane , Davide Bacciu

The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) degrades from the temporal drift between data used for model training and newer text seen during inference. One understudied avenue of language change causing data drift is the emergence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jonathan Zheng , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu

Psychological research consistently finds that human ratings of words across diverse semantic scales can be reduced to a low-dimensional form with relatively little information loss. We find that the semantic associations encoded in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Austin C. Kozlowski , Callin Dai , Andrei Boutyline

Understanding whether large language models (LLMs) and the human brain converge on similar computational principles remains a fundamental and important question in cognitive neuroscience and AI. Do the brain-like patterns observed in LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yu Lei , Xingyang Ge , Yi Zhang , Yiming Yang , Bolei Ma

Analogies play a central role in human commonsense reasoning. The ability to recognize analogies such as "eye is to seeing what ear is to hearing", sometimes referred to as analogical proportions, shape how we structure knowledge and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Asahi Ushio , Luis Espinosa-Anke , Steven Schockaert , Jose Camacho-Collados

Unsupervised pretraining models have been shown to facilitate a wide range of downstream NLP applications. These models, however, retain some of the limitations of traditional static word embeddings. In particular, they encode only the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Anne Lauscher , Ivan Vulić , Edoardo Maria Ponti , Anna Korhonen , Goran Glavaš

The vital role of analogical reasoning in human cognition allows us to grasp novel concepts by linking them with familiar ones through shared relational structures. Despite the attention previous research has given to word analogies, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Siyu Yuan , Jiangjie Chen , Xuyang Ge , Yanghua Xiao , Deqing Yang

Large pre-trained neural networks such as BERT have had great recent success in NLP, motivating a growing body of research investigating what aspects of language they are able to learn from unlabeled data. Most recent analysis has focused…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Kevin Clark , Urvashi Khandelwal , Omer Levy , Christopher D. Manning

Methods for unsupervised hypernym detection may broadly be categorized according to two paradigms: pattern-based and distributional methods. In this paper, we study the performance of both approaches on several hypernymy tasks and find that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Stephen Roller , Douwe Kiela , Maximilian Nickel

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable adaptability across domains, these models often fall short in structured knowledge extraction tasks such as named entity recognition (NER). This paper explores an innovative,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yuzhao Heng , Chunyuan Deng , Yitong Li , Yue Yu , Yinghao Li , Rongzhi Zhang , Chao Zhang

Analogical reasoning is a fundamental capacity of human cognition that allows us to reason abstractly about novel situations by relating them to past experiences. While it is thought to be essential for robust reasoning in AI systems,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaoyang Hu , Shane Storks , Richard L. Lewis , Joyce Chai

Open English Wordnet is a key resource published in OntoLex-lemon as part of the linguistic linked open data cloud. There are, however, many links missing in the resource, and in this paper, we look at how we can establish hypernymy between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Lorenzo Augello , John P. McCrae