Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao

Probing Character-level Transformers for the Spanish L-shaped Morphome

When a transformer learns an irregular morphological pattern, what has it learned? Our test case is the Spanish \emph{L-shaped morphome}, a complex irregular pattern in which the verb's stem alternates in exactly the first-person singular indicative and all subjunctive forms, and whose membership no phonological, seman...