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Knowledge of cultural moral norms in large language models
Aida Ramezani, Yang Xu
Moral norms vary across cultures. A recent line of work suggests that English large language models contain human-like moral biases, but these studies typically do not examine mora…
Crosslinguistic word order variation reflects evolutionary pressures of dependency and information locality
Michael Hahn, Yang Xu
Languages vary considerably in syntactic structure. About 40% of the world's languages have subject-verb-object order, and about 40% have subject-object-verb order. Extensive work…
Noun2Verb: Probabilistic frame semantics for word class conversion
Lei Yu, Yang Xu
Humans can flexibly extend word usages across different grammatical classes, a phenomenon known as word class conversion. Noun-to-verb conversion, or denominal verb (e.g., to Googl…
Neural reality of argument structure constructions
Bai Li, Zining Zhu, Guillaume Thomas +2
In lexicalist linguistic theories, argument structure is assumed to be predictable from the meaning of verbs. As a result, the verb is the primary determinant of the meaning of a c…
HistBERT: A Pre-trained Language Model for Diachronic Lexical Semantic Analysis
Wenjun Qiu, Yang Xu
Contextualized word embeddings have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various natural language processing tasks including those that concern historical semantic change.…
Predicting emergent linguistic compositions through time: Syntactic frame extension via multimodal chaining
Lei Yu, Yang Xu
Natural language relies on a finite lexicon to express an unbounded set of emerging ideas. One result of this tension is the formation of new compositions, such that existing lingu…
An unsupervised framework for tracing textual sources of moral change
Aida Ramezani, Zining Zhu, Frank Rudzicz +1
Morality plays an important role in social well-being, but people's moral perception is not stable and changes over time. Recent advances in natural language processing have shown…
Evolution of emotion semantics
Aotao Xu, Jennifer E. Stellar, Yang Xu
Humans possess the unique ability to communicate emotions through language. Although concepts like anger or awe are abstract, there is a shared consensus about what these English e…
What do writing features tell us about AI papers?
Zining Zhu, Bai Li, Yang Xu +1
As the numbers of submissions to conferences grow quickly, the task of assessing the quality of academic papers automatically, convincingly, and with high accuracy attracts increas…
A diachronic evaluation of gender asymmetry in euphemism
Anna Kapron-King, Yang Xu
The use of euphemisms is a known driver of language change. It has been proposed that women use euphemisms more than men. Although there have been several studies investigating gen…
How is BERT surprised? Layerwise detection of linguistic anomalies
Bai Li, Zining Zhu, Guillaume Thomas +2
Transformer language models have shown remarkable ability in detecting when a word is anomalous in context, but likelihood scores offer no information about the cause of the anomal…
Semantic coordinates analysis reveals language changes in the AI field
Zining Zhu, Yang Xu, Frank Rudzicz
Semantic shifts can reflect changes in beliefs across hundreds of years, but it is less clear whether trends in fast-changing communities across a short time can be detected. We pr…
Inferring symmetry in natural language
Chelsea Tanchip, Lei Yu, Aotao Xu +1
We present a methodological framework for inferring symmetry of verb predicates in natural language. Empirical work on predicate symmetry has taken two main approaches. The feature…
Word class flexibility: A deep contextualized approach
Bai Li, Guillaume Thomas, Yang Xu +1
Word class flexibility refers to the phenomenon whereby a single word form is used across different grammatical categories. Extensive work in linguistic typology has sought to char…
Contextualized moral inference
Jing Yi Xie, Graeme Hirst, Yang Xu
Developing moral awareness in intelligent systems has shifted from a topic of philosophical inquiry to a critical and practical issue in artificial intelligence over the past decad…
The Typology of Polysemy: A Multilingual Distributional Framework
Ella Rabinovich, Yang Xu, Suzanne Stevenson
Lexical semantic typology has identified important cross-linguistic generalizations about the variation and commonalities in polysemy patterns---how languages package up meanings i…
Corpus of Chinese Dynastic Histories: Gender Analysis over Two Millennia
Sergey Zinin, Yang Xu
Chinese dynastic histories form a large continuous linguistic space of approximately 2000 years, from the 3rd century BCE to the 18th century CE. The histories are documented in Cl…
A Computational Investigation on Denominalization
Zahra Shekarchi, Yang Xu
Language has been a dynamic system and word meanings always have been changed over times. Every time a novel concept or sense is introduced, we need to assign it a word to express…
Text-based inference of moral sentiment change
Jing Yi Xie, Renato Ferreira Pinto, Graeme Hirst +1
We present a text-based framework for investigating moral sentiment change of the public via longitudinal corpora. Our framework is based on the premise that language use can infor…