A Discerning Several Thousand Judgments: GPT-3 Rates the Article + Adjective + Numeral + Noun Construction

01/29/2023
by   Kyle Mahowald, et al.
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Knowledge of syntax includes knowledge of rare, idiosyncratic constructions. LLMs must overcome frequency biases in order to master such constructions. In this study, I prompt GPT-3 to give acceptability judgments on the English-language Article + Adjective + Numeral + Noun construction (e.g., "a lovely five days"). I validate the prompt using the CoLA corpus of acceptability judgments and then zero in on the AANN construction. I compare GPT- 3's judgments to crowdsourced human judgments on a subset of sentences. GPT-3's judgments are broadly similar to human judgments and generally align with proposed constraints in the literature but, in some cases, GPT-3's judgments and human judgments diverge from the literature and from each other.

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