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Fall 2023
Language models are a fundamental component of natural language processing (NLP) systems. Numerous successful deployments of modern artificial intelligence systems are based on language models, including GPT-4 and ChatGPT. In practice, they are often trained with the teacher forcing objective,...
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Exploring Surprisal from Various Language Models for Predicting English Reading Times of People with Different Language Backgrounds
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Surprisal estimated by language models is predictive of reading time in first-language (L1) reading. Research is emerging to determine whether this observation extends to reading in a second language (L2). Current attempts to characterize differences in the predictive power of surprisal for L1...