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Published at November 12Derivational Morphology Reveals Analogical Generalization in Large Language Models
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Released Date: November 12, 2024
Authors: Valentin Hofmann1, Leonie Weissweiler2, David Mortensen3, Hinrich Schütze2, Janet Pierrehumbert4
Aff.: 1Allen Institute for AI; 2LMU Munich; 3Carnegie Mellon University; 4University of Oxford

| Examples | Counts | MGL | GCM | ||||||
| Regularity | Suffix | Real | Nonce | -ity | -ness | Type | Token | Type | Token |
| High | -able | available | tegornable | 11,081 | 1,034 | .893 | .893 | .893 | .893 |
| -ish | selfish | friquish | 0 | 1,502 | .997 | .997 | .997 | .997 | |
| Low | -ive | sensitive | cormasive | 4,508 | 2,438 | †.658 | .662 | †.622 | .688 |
| -ous | luminous | momogorous | 1,372 | 2,450 | †.657 | †.613 | †.610 | .703 | |