Robert Frank

Robert Frank

Yale University

H-index: 23

North America-United States

About Robert Frank

Robert Frank, With an exceptional h-index of 23 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Yale University, specializes in the field of Syntax, Mathematical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Tree Adjoining Grammar, Language Acquisition and Processing.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

LIEDER: Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition

Brain and grammar: revealing electrophysiological basic structures with competing statistical models

On the Spectra of Syntactic Structures

Attention and locality: On clause-boundedness and its exceptions in multiple sluicing

False perspectives on human language: Why statistics needs linguistics

How poor is the stimulus? Evaluating hierarchical generalization in neural networks trained on child-directed speech

Subject-verb agreement with Seq2Seq transformers: Bigger is better, but still not best

Inductive Bias Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Robert Frank Information

University

Position

Professor of Linguistics

Citations(all)

2802

Citations(since 2020)

1479

Cited By

1613

hIndex(all)

23

hIndex(since 2020)

15

i10Index(all)

37

i10Index(since 2020)

25

Email

University Profile Page

Yale University

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Robert Frank Skills & Research Interests

Syntax

Mathematical Linguistics

Computational Linguistics

Tree Adjoining Grammar

Language Acquisition and Processing

Top articles of Robert Frank

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

LIEDER: Linguistically-Informed Evaluation for Discourse Entity Recognition

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06301

Xiaomeng Zhu

Robert Frank

2024/3/10

Brain and grammar: revealing electrophysiological basic structures with competing statistical models

bioRxiv

Andrea Cometa

Chiara Battaglini

Fiorenzo Artoni

Matteo Greco

Robert Frank

...

2024

On the Spectra of Syntactic Structures

Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics

Isabella Senturia

Robert Frank

2023

Attention and locality: On clause-boundedness and its exceptions in multiple sluicing

Linguistic Inquiry

Matthew Barros

Robert Frank

2023/9/26

False perspectives on human language: Why statistics needs linguistics

Frontiers in Language Sciences

Matteo Greco

Andrea Cometa

Fiorenzo Artoni

Robert Frank

Andrea Moro

2023/4/20

How poor is the stimulus? Evaluating hierarchical generalization in neural networks trained on child-directed speech

arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11462

Aditya Yedetore

Tal Linzen

Robert Frank

R Thomas McCoy

2023/1/26

Subject-verb agreement with Seq2Seq transformers: Bigger is better, but still not best

Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics

Michael A Wilson

Zhenghao Zhou

Robert Frank

2023

Inductive Bias Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Michael Wilson

Robert Frank

2023/12

What affects Priming Strength? Simulating Structural Priming Effect with PIPS

Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics

Zhenghao Zhou

Robert Frank

2023/1

How abstract is linguistic generalization in large language models? Experiments with argument structure

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Michael Wilson

Jackson Petty

Robert Frank

2023/11/13

Do language models learn position-role mappings?

arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.03611

Jackson Petty

Michael Wilson

Robert Frank

2022/2/8

Formal language recognition by hard attention transformers: Perspectives from circuit complexity

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Yiding Hao

Dana Angluin

Robert Frank

2022/7/27

Beyond the imitation game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.04615

Aarohi Srivastava

Abhinav Rastogi

Abhishek Rao

Abu Awal Md Shoeb

Abubakar Abid

...

2022/6/9

Arguments for top-down derivations in syntax

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

Robert Frank

Hadas Kotek

2022/5/5

Coloring the blank slate: Pre-training imparts a hierarchical inductive bias to sequence-to-sequence models

arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09397

Aaron Mueller

Robert Frank

Tal Linzen

Luheng Wang

Sebastian Schuster

2022/3/17

Comparing methods of tree-construction across mildly context-sensitive formalisms

Society for Computation in Linguistics

Tim Hunter

Robert Frank

2021/1/1

Variation in mild context-sensitivity: Derivational state and structural monotonicity

Evolutionary Linguistic Theory

Robert Frank

Tim Hunter

2021/11/5

Documentation of shared decisionmaking in the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

David Chartash

Mona Sharifi

Beth Emerson

Robert Frank

Elizabeth M Schoenfeld

...

2021/11/1

Transformers generalize linearly

arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12036

Jackson Petty

Robert Frank

2021/9/24

Structure here, bias there: Hierarchical generalization by jointly learning syntactic transformations

Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics

Karl Mulligan

Robert Frank

2021/1

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Co-Authors

H-index: 78
Dragomir Radev

Dragomir Radev

Yale University

H-index: 52
K Vijay-Shanker

K Vijay-Shanker

University of Delaware

H-index: 47
Dana Angluin

Dana Angluin

Yale University

H-index: 30
Giorgio Satta

Giorgio Satta

Università degli Studi di Padova

H-index: 21
Seth Kulick

Seth Kulick

University of Pennsylvania

H-index: 18
R. Thomas McCoy

R. Thomas McCoy

Johns Hopkins University

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