Schwa-deletion in German noun-noun compounds

no code implementations • COLING (CogALex) 2020 • Tom S Juzek, Jana Haeussler

In addition to existing nouns, the experimental stimuli included nonce words, also ending in schwa.

Exploring diachronic syntactic shifts with dependency length: the case of scientific English

no code implementations • UDW (COLING) 2020 • Tom S Juzek, Marie-Pauline Krielke, Elke Teich

Our starting assumption is that over time, Scientific English develops specific syntactic choice preferences that increase efficiency in (expert-to-expert) communication.

How Human is Machine Translationese? Comparing Human and Machine Translations of Text and Speech

no code implementations • WS 2020 • Yuri Bizzoni, Tom S Juzek, Cristina Espa{\~n}a-Bonet, Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Josef van Genabith, Elke Teich

Some translationese features tend to appear in simultaneous interpreting with higher frequency than in human text translation, but the reasons for this are unclear.

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