1 citations · 1 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
5 papers
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…
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…
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…