Designing and Interpreting Probes with Control Tasks
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John Hewitt, Percy Liang. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). 2019.
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The counterfactual comprehension checks (CCCs) are heuristic and rely on intuition to craft a simpler control task, following the probing literature.
“Our CCC designs are heuristic: as with control tasks in the probing literature (Hewitt and Liang, 2019), we rely on intuition to craft a g w that is “simpler” than f w .”
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“An alternate approach is probing (Adi et al., 2017; Conneau et al., 2018; Hupkes and Zuidema, 2018; Hewitt and Liang, 2019; Belinkov and Glass, 2019), which investigates how directly a model’s representations encode semantic relations by measuring if they can be easily decoded from them.”
BackgroundCausal Analysis of Syntactic Agreement Mechanisms in Neural Language Models
Finlayson, M., Mueller, A., Gehrmann, S., Shieber, S. M., Linzen, T., & Belinkov, Y. (2021) · doi:10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.144 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
A Closer Look at How Fine-tuning Changes BERT
Zhou, Y., & Srikumar, V. (2022) · Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting · doi:10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.75 · Cited by 50 · see citing works
Neural Natural Language Inference Models Partially Embed Theories of Lexical Entailment and Negation
Geiger, A., Richardson, K., & Potts, C. (2020) · BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (BlackboxNLP) · doi:10.18653/v1/2020.blackboxnlp-1.16 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
Learning Music Helps You Read: Using Transfer to Study Linguistic Structure in Language Models
Papadimitriou, I., & Jurafsky, D. (2020) · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · doi:10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.554 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
Pareto Probing: Trading Off Accuracy for Complexity
Pimentel, T., Saphra, N., Williams, A., & Cotterell, R. (2020) · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · doi:10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.254 · Cited by 42 · see citing works
On the Systematicity of Probing Contextualized Word Representations: The Case of Hypernymy in BERT
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Let’s Play Mono - Poly : BERT Can Reveal Words’ Polysemy Level and Partitionability into Senses
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Computational Language Modeling and the Promise of In Silico Experimentation
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Linguistic Profiling of a Neural Language Model
Miaschi, A., Brunato⋄, D., Dell’Orletta⋄, F., & Venturi⋄, G. (2020) · International Conference on Computational Linguistics · doi:10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.65 · Cited by 42 · see citing works
Challenges in Applying Explainability Methods to Improve the Fairness of NLP Models
Balkır, E., Kiritchenko, S., Nejadgholi, I., & Fraser, K. (2022) · Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP) · doi:10.18653/v1/2022.trustnlp-1.8 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
Human-Model Divergence in the Handling of Vagueness
Stengel-Eskin, E., Guallar-Blasco, J., & Durme, B. V. (2021) · Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language (UnImplicit) · doi:10.18653/v1/2021.unimplicit-1.6 · Cited by 39 · see citing works
Neuron-level Interpretation of Deep NLP Models: A Survey
Sajjad, H., Durrani, N., & Dalvi, F. (2022) · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · doi:10.1162/tacl_a_00519 · Cited by 41 · see citing works
Intrinsic Probing through Dimension Selection
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Probing Across Time: What Does RoBERTa Know and When?
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What Do Self-Supervised Speech Models Know About Words?
Pasad, A., Chien, C.-M., Settle, S., & Livescu, K. (2024) · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · doi:10.1162/tacl_a_00656 · Cited by 36 · see citing works
Do Language Embeddings capture Scales?
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What Does My QA Model Know? Devising Controlled Probes Using Expert Knowledge
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Do Neural Language Models Show Preferences for Syntactic Formalisms?
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Syntactic Structure Distillation Pretraining for Bidirectional Encoders
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Zhao, Y., & Bethard, S. J. (2020) · Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting · doi:10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.429 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
Dodrio: Exploring Transformer Models with Interactive Visualization
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Assessing BERT’s ability to learn Italian syntax: a study on null-subject and agreement phenomena
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Asking without Telling: Exploring Latent Ontologies in Contextual Representations
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Pretrained Language Model Embryology: The Birth of ALBERT
Chiang, C.-H., Huang, S.-F., & Lee, H.-Y. (2020) · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · doi:10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.553 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
Proton: Probing Schema Linking Information from Pre-trained Language Models for Text-to-SQL Parsing
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Probing for Referential Information in Language Models
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Word Order Does Matter and Shuffled Language Models Know It
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Deep Subjecthood: Higher-Order Grammatical Features in Multilingual BERT
Papadimitriou, I., Chi, E. A., Futrell, R., & Mahowald, K. (2021) · Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · doi:10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.215 · Cited by 30 · see citing works
Awakening Latent Grounding from Pretrained Language Models for Semantic Parsing
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Probing for the Usage of Grammatical Number
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Putting representations to use
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Eliciting Latent Predictions from Transformers with the Tuned Lens
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“This is especially important for probing techniques, since it’s known that probes can learn to rely on spurious features unrelated to the model’s performance (Hewitt and Liang, 2019; Be-linkov, 2022).”
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How much pretraining data do language models need to learn syntax?
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Conditional probing: measuring usable information beyond a baseline
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Self-citationAutomatic Text Evaluation through the Lens of Wasserstein Barycenters
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Are Larger Pretrained Language Models Uniformly Better? Comparing Performance at the Instance Level
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Do Language Embeddings capture Scales?
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When Bert Forgets How To POS: Amnesic Probing of Linguistic Properties and MLM PredictionsPreprint
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A matter of framing: The impact of linguistic formalism on probing results
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Emergence of Separable Manifolds in Deep Language RepresentationsPreprint
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Interpretable Entity Representations through Large-Scale Typing
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DirectProbe: Studying Representations without Classifiers
Zhou, Y., & Srikumar, V. (2021) · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · doi:10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.401 · Cited by 21 · see citing works
- Authors
- Hewitt, J., & Liang, P.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Liang, Percy
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
- Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 2733-2743
- OpenAlex
- W2970862333
- Cited by
- 393
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 81 · 2021: 119 · 2020: 76
- FWCI
- 26.40
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
- Keywords
- probing, control tasks, neural network interpretability
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