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Tal Linzen

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

55

Venues

7

Active years

2014–2026

Best venue rank

A*

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Papers

55 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026ACLLanguage Models Struggle to Use Representations Learned In-Context.Michael A. Lepori, Tal Linzen, Ann Yuan, Katja Filippova
2025ACLBetween Circuits and Chomsky: Pre-pretraining on Formal Languages Imparts Linguistic Biases.Michael Y. Hu, Jackson Petty, Chuan Shi, William Merrill, Tal Linzen
2025EMNLPRapid Word Learning Through Meta In-Context Learning.Wentao Wang, Guangyuan Jiang, Tal Linzen, Brenden M. Lake
2025EMNLPMultilingual Prompting for Improving LLM Generation Diversity.Qihan Wang, Shidong Pan, Tal Linzen, Emily Black
2025NAACLWhat Goes Into a LM Acceptability Judgment? Rethinking the Impact of Frequency and Length.Lindia Tjuatja, Graham Neubig, Tal Linzen, Sophie Hao
2024ACLCan You Learn Semantics Through Next-Word Prediction? The Case of Entailment.William Merrill, Zhaofeng Wu, Norihito Naka, Yoon Kim, Tal Linzen
2024CogSciInsights from the first BabyLM Challenge: Training sample-efficient language models on a developmentally plausible corpus.Alex Warstadt, Aaron Mueller, Leshem Choshen, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Chengxu Zhuang, Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Tal Linzen
2024NAACLA Systematic Comparison of Syllogistic Reasoning in Humans and Language Models.Tiwalayo Eisape, Michael Henry Tessler, Ishita Dasgupta, Fei Sha, Sjoerd van Steenkiste, Tal Linzen
2024NAACLIn-context Learning Generalizes, But Not Always Robustly: The Case of Syntax.Aaron Mueller, Albert Webson, Jackson Petty, Tal Linzen
2024NAACLThe Impact of Depth on Compositional Generalization in Transformer Language Models.Jackson Petty, Sjoerd van Steenkiste, Ishita Dasgupta, Fei Sha, Dan Garrette, Tal Linzen
2023ACLHow to Plant Trees in Language Models: Data and Architectural Effects on the Emergence of Syntactic Inductive Biases.Aaron Mueller, Tal Linzen
2023ACLHow poor is the stimulus? Evaluating hierarchical generalization in neural networks trained on child-directed speech.Aditya Yedetore, Tal Linzen, Robert Frank, R. Thomas McCoy
2023EMNLPVerb Conjugation in Transformers Is Determined by Linear Encodings of Subject Number.Sophie Hao, Tal Linzen
2023EMNLPSLOG: A Structural Generalization Benchmark for Semantic Parsing.Bingzhi Li, Lucia Donatelli, Alexander Koller, Tal Linzen, Yuekun Yao, Najoung Kim
2023EMNLPA Language Model with Limited Memory Capacity Captures Interference in Human Sentence Processing.William Timkey, Tal Linzen
2022ACLColoring 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
2022CogSciLSTMs Can Learn Basic Wh- and Relative Clause Dependencies in Norwegian.Anastasia Kobzeva, Suhas Arehalli, Tal Linzen, Dave Kush
2022CoNLLSyntactic Surprisal From Neural Models Predicts, But Underestimates, Human Processing Difficulty From Syntactic Ambiguities.Suhas Arehalli, Brian Dillon, Tal Linzen
2022CoNLLCharacterizing Verbatim Short-Term Memory in Neural Language Models.Kristijan Armeni, Christopher J. Honey, Tal Linzen
2022CoNLLEntailment Semantics Can Be Extracted from an Ideal Language Model.William Merrill, Alex Warstadt, Tal Linzen
2022CoNLLCausal Analysis of Syntactic Agreement Neurons in Multilingual Language Models.Aaron Mueller, Yu Xia, Tal Linzen
2022ICLRThe MultiBERTs: BERT Reproductions for Robustness Analysis.Thibault Sellam, Steve Yadlowsky, Ian Tenney, Jason Wei, Naomi Saphra, Alexander D'Amour, Tal Linzen, Jasmijn Bastings, Iulia Raluca Turc, Jacob Eisenstein, Dipanjan Das, Ellie Pavlick
2022NAACLImproving Compositional Generalization with Latent Structure and Data Augmentation.Linlu Qiu, Peter Shaw, Panupong Pasupat, Pawel Krzysztof Nowak, Tal Linzen, Fei Sha, Kristina Toutanova
2022NAACLWhen a sentence does not introduce a discourse entity, Transformer-based models still sometimes refer to it.Sebastian Schuster, Tal Linzen
2021ACLCausal Analysis of Syntactic Agreement Mechanisms in Neural Language Models.Matthew Finlayson, Aaron Mueller, Sebastian Gehrmann, Stuart M. Shieber, Tal Linzen, Yonatan Belinkov
2021CoNLLNOPE: A Corpus of Naturally-Occurring Presuppositions in English.Alicia Parrish, Sebastian Schuster, Alex Warstadt, Omar Agha, Soo-Hwan Lee, Zhuoye Zhao, Samuel R. Bowman, Tal Linzen
2021CoNLLCounterfactual Interventions Reveal the Causal Effect of Relative Clause Representations on Agreement Prediction.Shauli Ravfogel, Grusha Prasad, Tal Linzen, Yoav Goldberg
2021EMNLPDoes Putting a Linguist in the Loop Improve NLU Data Collection?Alicia Parrish, William Huang, Omar Agha, Soo-Hwan Lee, Nikita Nangia, Alex Warstadt, Karmanya Aggarwal, Emily Allaway, Tal Linzen, Samuel R. Bowman
2021EMNLPFrequency Effects on Syntactic Rule Learning in Transformers.Jason Wei, Dan Garrette, Tal Linzen, Ellie Pavlick
2021ICLRPredicting Inductive Biases of Pre-Trained Models.Charles Lovering, Rohan Jha, Tal Linzen, Ellie Pavlick
2020ACLRepresentations of Syntax [MASK] Useful: Effects of Constituency and Dependency Structure in Recursive LSTMs.Michael A. Lepori, Tal Linzen, R. Thomas McCoy
2020ACLHow Can We Accelerate Progress Towards Human-like Linguistic Generalization?Tal Linzen
2020ACLSyntactic Data Augmentation Increases Robustness to Inference Heuristics.Junghyun Min, R. Thomas McCoy, Dipanjan Das, Emily Pitler, Tal Linzen
2020ACLCross-Linguistic Syntactic Evaluation of Word Prediction Models.Aaron Mueller, Garrett Nicolai, Panayiota Petrou-Zeniou, Natalia Talmina, Tal Linzen
2020CogSciNeural Language Models Capture Some, But Not All Agreement Attraction Effects.Suhas Arehalli, Tal Linzen
2020CogSciUniversal linguistic inductive biases via meta-learning.Richard Thomas McCoy, Erin Grant, Paul Smolensky, Tom Griffiths, Tal Linzen
2020EMNLPCOGS: A Compositional Generalization Challenge Based on Semantic Interpretation.Najoung Kim, Tal Linzen
2019ACLRight for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference.Tom McCoy, Ellie Pavlick, Tal Linzen
2019CogSciHuman few-shot learning of compositional instructions.Brenden M. Lake, Tal Linzen, Marco Baroni
2019CogSciHow much harder are hard garden-path sentences than easy ones?Grusha Prasad, Tal Linzen
2019CoNLLUsing Priming to Uncover the Organization of Syntactic Representations in Neural Language Models.Grusha Prasad, Marten van Schijndel, Tal Linzen
2019EMNLPQuantity doesn't buy quality syntax with neural language models.Marten van Schijndel, Aaron Mueller, Tal Linzen
2019ICLRRNNs implicitly implement tensor-product representations.R. Thomas McCoy, Tal Linzen, Ewan Dunbar, Paul Smolensky
2019NAACLStudying the Inductive Biases of RNNs with Synthetic Variations of Natural Languages.Shauli Ravfogel, Yoav Goldberg, Tal Linzen
2018CogSciDistinct patterns of syntactic agreement errors in recurrent networks and humans.Tal Linzen, Brian Leonard
2018CogSciRevisiting the poverty of the stimulus: hierarchical generalization without a hierarchical bias in recurrent neural networks.Richard Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank, Tal Linzen
2018CogSciModeling garden path effects without explicit hierarchical syntax.Marten van Schijndel, Tal Linzen
2018EMNLPTargeted Syntactic Evaluation of Language Models.Rebecca Marvin, Tal Linzen
2018EMNLPA Neural Model of Adaptation in Reading.Marten van Schijndel, Tal Linzen
2018NAACLColorless Green Recurrent Networks Dream Hierarchically.Kristina Gulordava, Piotr Bojanowski, Edouard Grave, Tal Linzen, Marco Baroni
2017CogSciPrediction and uncertainty in an artificial language.Tal Linzen, Noam Siegelman, Louisa Bogaerts
2017CoNLLExploring the Syntactic Abilities of RNNs with Multi-task Learning.mile Enguehard, Yoav Goldberg, Tal Linzen
2017EACLComparing Character-level Neural Language Models Using a Lexical Decision Task.Gal Le Godais, Tal Linzen, Emmanuel Dupoux
2015EMNLPA model of rapid phonotactic generalization.Tal Linzen, Timothy J. O'Donnell
2014CogSciThe timecourse of phonotactic learning.Tal Linzen, Gillian Gallagher