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New research questions idiom decomposability in language models

Researchers have investigated the relationship between idiom decomposability and distributional learning in language models. Their findings suggest that while frequency plays a role in how models learn idioms, factors like surprisal and decomposability also contribute significantly to representation stabilization during pretraining. The study found weak correlations between model-derived decomposability and human judgments, and a slight negative relationship with syntactic flexibility. AI

IMPACT Provides insights into how language models learn and represent idiomatic expressions, potentially informing future model development.

RANK_REASON Academic paper published on arXiv detailing research into language model behavior. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Maggie Mi, Golzar Atefi, Atsuki Yamaguchi, Felix Gers, Aline Villavicencio, Nafise Sadat Moosavi ·

    Rethinking the Idiomaticity Decomposability Hypothesis: Evidence from Distributional Learning

    arXiv:2606.03817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Idioms can be analysed in terms of their decomposability, the extent to which constituent meanings contribute to the figurative whole. Decomposability is thought to predict syntactic flexibility. Usage-based accounts instead attribu…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Nafise Sadat Moosavi ·

    Rethinking the Idiomaticity Decomposability Hypothesis: Evidence from Distributional Learning

    Idioms can be analysed in terms of their decomposability, the extent to which constituent meanings contribute to the figurative whole. Decomposability is thought to predict syntactic flexibility. Usage-based accounts instead attribute idiom behaviour to distributional experience,…