3 papers
cs.CL2020
On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs
Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin +2
We use large-scale corpora in six different gendered languages, along with tools from NLP and information theory, to test whether there is a relationship between the grammatical ge…
cs.CL2019
Quantifying the Semantic Core of Gender Systems
Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin +2
Many of the world's languages employ grammatical gender on the lexeme. For example, in Spanish, the word for 'house' (casa) is feminine, whereas the word for 'paper' (papel) is mas…
cs.CL2019
Meaning to Form: Measuring Systematicity as Information
Tiago Pimentel, Arya D. McCarthy, Damián E. Blasi +2
A longstanding debate in semiotics centers on the relationship between linguistic signs and their corresponding semantics: is there an arbitrary relationship between a word form an…