Using large language models to estimate features of multi-word expressions: Concreteness, valence, arousal

G Martínez, JD Molero, S González, J Conde… - Behavior Research …, 2025 - Springer
This study investigates the potential of large language models (LLMs) to provide accurate
estimates of concreteness, valence, and arousal for multi-word expressions. Unlike previous …

Elements of World Knowledge (EWOK): A cognition-inspired framework for evaluating basic world knowledge in language models

AA Ivanova, A Sathe, B Lipkin, U Kumar… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The ability to build and leverage world models is essential for a general-purpose AI agent.
Testing such capabilities is hard, in part because the building blocks of world models are ill …

The potential--and the pitfalls--of using pre-trained language models as cognitive science theories

RS Shah, S Varma - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.12651, 2025 - arxiv.org
Many studies have evaluated the cognitive alignment of Pre-trained Language Models
(PLMs), ie, their correspondence to adult performance across a range of cognitive domains …