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    "pk": 29588,
    "title": "Do We Need Neural Models to Explain Human Judgments of Acceptability?",
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    "abstract": "Native speakers can judge whether a sentence is an acceptableinstance of their language. Acceptability provides a means ofevaluating whether computational language models are pro-cessing language in a human-like manner. We test the abilityof language models, simple language features, and word em-beddings to predict native speakers’ judgments of acceptabil-ity on English essays written by non-native speakers. We findthat much sentence acceptability variance can be captured by acombination of misspellings, word order, and word similarity(r = 0.494). While predictive neural models fit acceptabilityjudgments well (r = 0.527), we find that a 4-gram model isjust as good (r = 0.528). Thanks to incorporating misspellings,our 4-gram model surpasses both the previous unsupervisedstate-of-the art (r = 0.472), and the average native speaker(r = 0.46), demonstrating that acceptability is well capturedby n-gram statistics and simple language features.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "acceptability judgments; language models; neuralnetworks; word embeddings; statistical models"
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    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 1",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74h1d4kt",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Wang",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jing",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Beijing International Studies University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "M. A.",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kelly",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Pennsylvania State University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Reitter",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "The Pennsylvania State University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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