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.
2 code implementations • 13 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.
1 code implementation • 30 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.
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.
1 code implementation • 13 Apr 2021 • Francisco Valentini, Germán Rosati, Damián Blasi, Diego Fernandez Slezak, Edgar Altszyler
In recent years, word embeddings have been widely used to measure biases in texts.
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.
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.
no code implementations • 3 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.
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.