Robert Frank

According to our database, Robert Frank authored at least 26 papers between 1990 and 2023.

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2023

How Abstract Is Linguistic Generalization in Large Language Models? Experiments with Argument Structure.

Michael Wilson, Jackson Petty, Robert Frank

CoRR, 2023

NPIs Aren't Exactly Easy: Variation in Licensing across Large Language Models.

Deanna DeCarlo, William Palmer, Michael Wilson, Bob Frank

Proceedings of the 6th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2023

How poor is the stimulus? Evaluating hierarchical generalization in neural networks trained on child-directed speech.

Aditya Yedetore, Tal Linzen, Robert Frank, R. Thomas McCoy

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022

Formal Language Recognition by Hard Attention Transformers: Perspectives from Circuit Complexity.

Yiding Hao, Dana Angluin, Robert Frank

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2022

Do Language Models Learn Position-Role Mappings?

Jackson Petty, Michael Wilson, Robert Frank

CoRR, 2022

Coloring the Blank Slate: Pre-training Imparts a Hierarchical Inductive Bias to Sequence-to-sequence Models.

Aaron Mueller, Robert Frank, Tal Linzen, Luheng Wang, Sebastian Schuster

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022

2020

Does Syntax Need to Grow on Trees? Sources of Hierarchical Inductive Bias in Sequence-to-Sequence Networks.

R. Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank, Tal Linzen

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2020

Probabilistic Predictions of People Perusing: Evaluating Metrics of Language Model Performance for Psycholinguistic Modeling.

Yiding Hao, Simon Mendelsohn, Rachel Sterneck, Randi Martinez, Robert Frank

CoRR, 2020

2019

Finding Syntactic Representations in Neural Stacks.

William Merrill, Lenny Khazan, Noah Amsel, Yiding Hao, Simon Mendelsohn, Robert Frank

CoRR, 2019

Syntax-aware Neural Semantic Role Labeling with Supertags.

Jungo Kasai, Dan Friedman, Robert Frank, Dragomir R. Radev, Owen Rambow

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019

Finding Hierarchical Structure in Neural Stacks Using Unsupervised Parsing.

William Merrill, Lenny Khazan, Noah Amsel, Yiding Hao, Simon Mendelsohn, Robert Frank

Proceedings of the 2019 ACL Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2019

Open Sesame: Getting inside BERT's Linguistic Knowledge.

Yongjie Lin, Yi Chern Tan, Robert Frank

Proceedings of the 2019 ACL Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2019

Detecting Syntactic Change Using a Neural Part-of-Speech Tagger.

William Merrill, Gigi Felice Stark, Robert Frank

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, 2019

2018

End-to-End Graph-Based TAG Parsing with Neural Networks.

Jungo Kasai, Robert Frank, Pauli Xu, William Merrill, Owen Rambow

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

Context-Free Transductions with Neural Stacks.

Yiding Hao, William Merrill, Dana Angluin, Robert Frank, Noah Amsel, Andrew Benz, Simon Mendelsohn

Proceedings of the Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2018

Revisiting the poverty of the stimulus: hierarchical generalization without a hierarchical bias in recurrent neural networks.

Richard Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank, Tal Linzen

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

TAG Parser Evaluation using Textual Entailments.

Pauli Xu, Robert Frank, Jungo Kasai, Owen Rambow

Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, 2017

Linguistically Rich Vector Representations of Supertags for TAG Parsing.

Dan Friedman, Jungo Kasai, R. Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank, Forrest Davis, Owen Rambow

Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms, 2017

TAG Parsing with Neural Networks and Vector Representations of Supertags.

Jungo Kasai, Bob Frank, R. Thomas McCoy, Owen Rambow, Alexis Nasr

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017

2012

Processing of nested and cross-serial dependencies: an automaton perspective on SRN behaviour.

Christo Kirov, Robert Frank

Connect. Sci., 2012

2009

What lies beneath: Semantic and syntactic analysis of manually reconstructed spontaneous speech.

Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek, Robert Frank

Proceedings of the ACL 2009, 2009

2000

Monotonic C-Command: A New Perspective on Tree Adjoining Grammar.

Robert Frank, Seth Kulick, K. Vijay-Shanker

Grammars, 2000

1998

Optimality Theory and the Generative Complexity of Constraint Violability.

Robert Frank, Giorgio Satta

Comput. Linguistics, 1998

TAG derivation as monotonic C-command.

Robert Frank, K. Vijay-Shanker

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks, 1998

1994

Nominal Structures and Structural Recursion.

Robert Frank, Anthony Kroch

Comput. Intell., 1994

1990

Licensing and Tree Adjoining Grammar in Government Binding Parsing.

Robert Frank

Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1990