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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.…