Paper and Talk: Contrafactives and the Importance of Distributions

If you model the acquisition of words that don’t exist in any language, what distribution do you assume for these words? For example, how often should they be used in false sentences vs. true sentences? This admittedly abstract issue motivated the paper “Transformers Learning Contrafactives: The Importance of Data Distributions”, 1 which I am presenting this Saturday (11. 07. 2026) at the 3rd…