Search Results for author: Damián Blasi

Found 9 papers, 6 papers with code

A surprisal–duration trade-off across and within the world’s languages

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Elizabeth Salesky, Simone Teufel, Damián Blasi, Ryan Cotterell

We thus conclude that there is strong evidence of a surprisal–duration trade-off in operation, both across and within the world’s languages.

Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages

2 code implementations13 Oct 2021 Damián Blasi, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig

Natural language processing (NLP) systems have become a central technology in communication, education, medicine, artificial intelligence, and many other domains of research and development.

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A surprisal--duration trade-off across and within the world's languages

1 code implementation30 Sep 2021 Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Elizabeth Salesky, Simone Teufel, Damián Blasi, Ryan Cotterell

We thus conclude that there is strong evidence of a surprisal--duration trade-off in operation, both across and within the world's languages.

How (Non-)Optimal is the Lexicon?

no code implementations NAACL 2021 Tiago Pimentel, Irene Nikkarinen, Kyle Mahowald, Ryan Cotterell, Damián Blasi

Examining corpora from 7 typologically diverse languages, we use those upper bounds to quantify the lexicon's optimality and to explore the relative costs of major constraints on natural codes.

Finding Concept-specific Biases in Form--Meaning Associations

2 code implementations NAACL 2021 Tiago Pimentel, Brian Roark, Søren Wichmann, Ryan Cotterell, Damián Blasi

It is not a new idea that there are small, cross-linguistic associations between the forms and meanings of words.

Speakers Fill Lexical Semantic Gaps with Context

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Tiago Pimentel, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Damián Blasi, Ryan Cotterell

For a language to be clear and efficiently encoded, we posit that the lexical ambiguity of a word type should correlate with how much information context provides about it, on average.

On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs

no code implementations3 May 2020 Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Damián Blasi, Hanna Wallach

We also find that there are statistically significant relationships between the grammatical genders of inanimate nouns and the verbs that take those nouns as direct objects, as indirect objects, and as subjects.

Quantifying the Semantic Core of Gender Systems

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Damián Blasi, Hanna Wallach

To that end, we use canonical correlation analysis to correlate the grammatical gender of inanimate nouns with an externally grounded definition of their lexical semantics.

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