Summary of Word Order and World Knowledge, by Qinghua Zhao et al.
Word Order and World Knowledge
by Qinghua Zhao, Vinit Ravishankar, Nicolas Garneau, Anders Søgaard
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Word order is a crucial aspect of natural language, and researchers have been studying how it affects the induction of world knowledge from raw text using language models. A recent study investigated this topic by probing language models with word analogies. The approach involved pretraining language models on texts with six fixed word orders in five languages. The results showed that certain fixed word orders consistently outperformed or underperformed others, although the specifics varied across languages. Additionally, the study found that the Wov2Lex hypothesis does not hold for pre-trained language models, and natural word order typically yields mediocre results. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Language researchers are trying to understand how word order affects our ability to learn from text using computers. They did this by testing computer programs called language models with tricky word puzzles. First, they took texts written in different languages and rearranged the words into six specific orders. Then, they trained the language models on these texts. The results showed that some word orders were better than others at solving the puzzles, but it depended on the language. They also found out that the computers didn’t learn much from natural word order. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Pretraining
