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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Naturalistic Causal Probing for Morpho-Syntax
Contributor:
Amini, Afra;
Pimentel, Tiago;
Meister, Clara;
Cotterell, Ryan
Published:
MIT Press, 2023
Published in:
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 11 (2023), Seite 384-403
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1162/tacl_a_00554
ISSN:
2307-387X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
AbstractProbing has become a go-to methodology for interpreting and analyzing deep neural models in natural language processing. However, there is still a lack of understanding of the limitations and weaknesses of various types of probes. In this work, we suggest a strategy for input-level intervention on naturalistic sentences. Using our approach, we intervene on the morpho-syntactic features of a sentence, while keeping the rest of the sentence unchanged. Such an intervention allows us to causally probe pre-trained models. We apply our naturalistic causal probing framework to analyze the effects of grammatical gender and number on contextualized representations extracted from three pre-trained models in Spanish, the multilingual versions of BERT, RoBERTa, and GPT-2. Our experiments suggest that naturalistic interventions lead to stable estimates of the causal effects of various linguistic properties. Moreover, our experiments demonstrate the importance of naturalistic causal probing when analyzing pre-trained models.https://github.com/rycolab/naturalistic-causal-probing