3 papers
cs.CL2021
Modeling the Unigram Distribution
Irene Nikkarinen, Tiago Pimentel, Damián E. Blasi +1
The unigram distribution is the non-contextual probability of finding a specific word form in a corpus. While of central importance to the study of language, it is commonly approxi…
cs.CL2021
How (Non-)Optimal is the Lexicon?
Tiago Pimentel, Irene Nikkarinen, Kyle Mahowald +2
The mapping of lexical meanings to wordforms is a major feature of natural languages. While usage pressures might assign short words to frequent meanings (Zipf's law of abbreviatio…
cs.CL2020
SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task 0: Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection
Ekaterina Vylomova, Jennifer White, Elizabeth Salesky +25
A broad goal in natural language processing (NLP) is to develop a system that has the capacity to process any natural language. Most systems, however, are developed using data from…