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From sunblock to softblock: Analyzing the correlates of neology in published writing and on social media
Maria Ryskina, Matthew R. Gormley, Kyle Mahowald +3
Living languages are shaped by a host of conflicting internal and external evolutionary pressures. While some of these pressures are universal across languages and cultures, others…
Language models align with brain regions that represent concepts across modalities
Maria Ryskina, Greta Tuckute, Alexander Fung +2
Cognitive science and neuroscience have long faced the challenge of disentangling representations of language from representations of conceptual meaning. As the same problem arises…
Elements of World Knowledge (EWoK): A Cognition-Inspired Framework for Evaluating Basic World Knowledge in Language Models
Anna A. Ivanova, Aalok Sathe, Benjamin Lipkin +17
The ability to build and reason about models of the world is essential for situated language understanding. But evaluating world modeling capabilities in modern AI systems -- espec…
Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI
Organizers Of QueerInAI, :, Anaelia Ovalle +48
We present Queer in AI as a case study for community-led participatory design in AI. We examine how participatory design and intersectional tenets started and shaped this community…
State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP: A taxonomy and review
Dieuwke Hupkes, Mario Giulianelli, Verna Dankers +17
The ability to generalise well is one of the primary desiderata of natural language processing (NLP). Yet, what 'good generalisation' entails and how it should be evaluated is not…
Two Approaches to Building Collaborative, Task-Oriented Dialog Agents through Self-Play
Arkady Arkhangorodsky, Scot Fang, Victoria Knight +3
Task-oriented dialog systems are often trained on human/human dialogs, such as collected from Wizard-of-Oz interfaces. However, human/human corpora are frequently too small for sup…
Learning Mathematical Properties of Integers
Maria Ryskina, Kevin Knight
Embedding words in high-dimensional vector spaces has proven valuable in many natural language applications. In this work, we investigate whether similarly-trained embeddings of in…
Comparative Error Analysis in Neural and Finite-state Models for Unsupervised Character-level Transduction
Maria Ryskina, Eduard Hovy, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +1
Traditionally, character-level transduction problems have been solved with finite-state models designed to encode structural and linguistic knowledge of the underlying process, whe…
NoiseQA: Challenge Set Evaluation for User-Centric Question Answering
Abhilasha Ravichander, Siddharth Dalmia, Maria Ryskina +3
When Question-Answering (QA) systems are deployed in the real world, users query them through a variety of interfaces, such as speaking to voice assistants, typing questions into a…
Phonetic and Visual Priors for Decipherment of Informal Romanization
Maria Ryskina, Matthew R. Gormley, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
Informal romanization is an idiosyncratic process used by humans in informal digital communication to encode non-Latin script languages into Latin character sets found on common ke…
Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods
Maria Ryskina, Ella Rabinovich, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +2
We perform statistical analysis of the phenomenon of neology, the process by which new words emerge in a language, using large diachronic corpora of English. We investigate the imp…
Automatic Compositor Attribution in the First Folio of Shakespeare
Maria Ryskina, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Dan Garrette +1
Compositor attribution, the clustering of pages in a historical printed document by the individual who set the type, is a bibliographic task that relies on analysis of orthographic…