BERT Rediscovers the Classical NLP Pipeline

Tenney et al., 2019, BERT Rediscovers the Classical NLP Pipeline (Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of ACL)

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  1. What do Tenney et al.’s results suggest about deep language models and linguistic abstraction?
    They can represent the syntactic and semantic abstractions traditionally thought necessary for language processing, in roughly pipeline order, and also model complex interactions between levels, using high-level information like predicate–argument relations to disambiguate low-level decisions like part of speech.

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