Measuring Form and Function in Language Models 事件

ACQUISITION2026-05-28影响: HIGH

Measuring Form and Function in Language Models arXiv:2605.28616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce quantitative metrics for child language acquisition to evaluate language models. Our focus is on the formal syntactic and functional discourse properties of determiners in English, which young children acquire early and accurately. We propose Contextual Alternative Choice (CAC), a new prompting method which provides targeted tests for both syntactic and discourse knowledge of language. Th