zh-reflexive

This repository contains the code for the COLING 2025 paper Language Models at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A Case Study of the Long-Distance Binding of Chinese Reflexive ziji by Xiulin Yang.

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❗ Important Note:

• You can access the data from the data folder.
• Additionally, the data has been merged with Yixiao-Song/SLING_Data_Code. Feel free to refer to that repository for accessing the data and evaluation code as needed.

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ARCHIVE

Please create a virtual environment using conda create -n ziji python=3.8 and install all the dependencies.

prepare for the data

• data: contains the designed sentence pairs.
• data_generator.py: the script to generate the sentence pairs
• Or you can use the files in the data folder directly.

Probe language models

• chatglm.py: the script used to probe chatglm.
• chinese_bert.py: the script used to probe chinese-bert-base/multilingual bert/XLM-R.
• nmt.py: the script to probe the Helsinki-NLP zh2en MT system.

The results (i.e., the probabilities of all predictions) are stored in the probability folder. The name of each file is self-explanatory.