Bilingual Language Models Capture Cross-Linguistic Influence in Second-Language Reading

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-22 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-22 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-23

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-10-23

Abstract

While monolingual language model (LM) surprisal is widely established as a predictor of reading times, it cannot capture the non-native (L2) reading dynamics that are shaped by the reader's first language (L1). In this work, we investigate whether the cross-lingual transfer within bilingual models aligns with human L1-driven biases during L2 reading. We evaluate bilingual models on eye-tracking da

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