no code implementations • Findings (ACL) 2021 • William Dyer, Richard Futrell, Zoey Liu, Gregory Scontras
Languages vary in their placement of multiple adjectives before, after, or surrounding the noun, but they typically exhibit strong intra-language tendencies on the relative order of those adjectives (e. g., the preference for `big blue box' in English, `grande bo\^{i}te bleue' in French, and `alsund\={u}q al'azraq alkab\={\i}r' in Arabic).
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Richard Futrell, William Dyer, Greg Scontras
The four theories we test are subjectivity (Scontras et al., 2017), information locality (Futrell, 2019), integration cost (Dyer, 2017), and information gain, which we introduce.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • William Dyer
This paper describes a method of inflecting and linearizing a lemmatized dependency tree by: (1) determining a regular expression and substitution to describe each productive wordform rule; (2) learning the dependency distance tolerance for each head-dependent pair, resulting in an edge-weighted directed acyclic graph (DAG); and (3) topologically sorting the DAG into a surface realization based on edge weight.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • William Dyer
The current study addresses the latter by proposing a novel theory of integration complexity derived from the entropy of the probability distribution of a dependent{'}s heads.
