Temperature-scaling surprisal estimates improve fit to human reading times -- but does it do so for the "right reasons"?

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Main Authors:	Liu, Tong, Škrjanec, Iza, Demberg, Vera
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2023
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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