The Dog the Cat Chased Stumped the Model: Measuring When Language Models Abandon Structure for Shortcuts

Sangmitra Madhusudan, Kaige Chen, Ali Emami. The Dog the Cat Chased Stumped the Model: Measuring When Language Models Abandon Structure for Shortcuts. In Vera Demberg, Kentaro Inui, LluĂ­s Marquez, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2026 - Volume 1: Long Papers, Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026. pages 428-453, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

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