3 papers
cs.CL2021
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…
cs.CL2020
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…
cs.CL2020
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…