@inproceedings{malkin2021gpt,
author = {Malkin, Nikolay and Lanka, Sameera and Goel, Pranav and Rao, Sudha and Jojic, Nebojsa},
title = {GPT Perdetry Test: Generating new meanings for new words},
booktitle = {North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
year = {2021},
month = {June},
abstract = {Human innovation in language, such as inventing new words, is a challenge for pretrained language models. We assess the ability of one large model, GPT-3, to process new words and decide on their meaning. We create a set of nonce words and prompt GPT-3 to generate their dictionary definitions. We find GPT-3 produces plausible definitions that align with human judgments. Moreover, GPT-3’s definitions are sometimes preferred to those invented by humans, signaling its intriguing ability not just to adapt, but to add to the evolving vocabulary of the English language.},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/gpt-perdetry-test-generating-new-meanings-for-new-words/},
}