1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Jaap Jumelet, Milica Denić, Jakub Szymanik, Dieuwke Hupkes, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
We investigate the semantic knowledge of language models (LMs), focusing on (1) whether these LMs create categories of linguistic environments based on their semantic monotonicity properties, and (2) whether these categories play a similar role in LMs as in human language understanding, using negative polarity item licensing as a case study.