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Is Information Density Uniform when Utterances are Grounded on Perception and Discourse?
Matteo Gay, Coleman Haley, Mario Giulianelli +1
The Uniform Information Density (UID) hypothesis posits that speakers are subject to a communicative pressure to distribute information evenly within utterances, minimising surpris…
A Grounded Typology of Word Classes
Coleman Haley, Sharon Goldwater, Edoardo Ponti
We propose a grounded approach to meaning in language typology. We treat data from perceptual modalities, such as images, as a language-agnostic representation of meaning. Hence, w…
Morphology Matters: A Multilingual Language Modeling Analysis
Hyunji Hayley Park, Katherine J. Zhang, Coleman Haley +3
Prior studies in multilingual language modeling (e.g., Cotterell et al., 2018; Mielke et al., 2019) disagree on whether or not inflectional morphology makes languages harder to mod…
Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling
Lane Schwartz, Francis Tyers, Lori Levin +18
Research in natural language processing commonly assumes that approaches that work well for English and and other widely-used languages are "language agnostic". In high-resource la…