Search Results for author: Beth Levin

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The Role of Verb Semantics in Hungarian Verb-Object Order

no code implementations16 Jun 2020 Dorottya Demszky, László Kálmán, Dan Jurafsky, Beth Levin

We test the effect of lexical semantics on the ordering of verbs and their objects by grouping verbs into 11 semantic classes.

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From Insanely Jealous to Insanely Delicious: Computational Models for the Semantic Bleaching of English Intensifiers

no code implementations WS 2019 Yiwei Luo, Dan Jurafsky, Beth Levin

We introduce novel computational models for modeling semantic bleaching, a widespread category of change in which words become more abstract or lose elements of meaning, like the development of {``}arrive{''} from its earlier meaning {`}become at shore.

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