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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…