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Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages
Damián Blasi, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig
Natural language processing (NLP) systems have become a central technology in communication, education, medicine, artificial intelligence, and many other domains of research and de…
A surprisal--duration trade-off across and within the world's languages
Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Elizabeth Salesky +3
While there exist scores of natural languages, each with its unique features and idiosyncrasies, they all share a unifying theme: enabling human communication. We may thus reasonab…
Modeling the Unigram Distribution
Irene Nikkarinen, Tiago Pimentel, Damián E. Blasi +1
The unigram distribution is the non-contextual probability of finding a specific word form in a corpus. While of central importance to the study of language, it is commonly approxi…
Evaluating Word Embeddings with Categorical Modularity
Sílvia Casacuberta, Karina Halevy, Damián E. Blasi
We introduce categorical modularity, a novel low-resource intrinsic metric to evaluate word embedding quality. Categorical modularity is a graph modularity metric based on the -…
How (Non-)Optimal is the Lexicon?
Tiago Pimentel, Irene Nikkarinen, Kyle Mahowald +2
The mapping of lexical meanings to wordforms is a major feature of natural languages. While usage pressures might assign short words to frequent meanings (Zipf's law of abbreviatio…
Finding Concept-specific Biases in Form--Meaning Associations
Tiago Pimentel, Brian Roark, Søren Wichmann +2
This work presents an information-theoretic operationalisation of cross-linguistic non-arbitrariness. It is not a new idea that there are small, cross-linguistic associations betwe…
On the Interpretability and Significance of Bias Metrics in Texts: a PMI-based Approach
Francisco Valentini, Germán Rosati, Damián Blasi +2
In recent years, word embeddings have been widely used to measure biases in texts. Even if they have proven to be effective in detecting a wide variety of biases, metrics based on…
Speakers Fill Lexical Semantic Gaps with Context
Tiago Pimentel, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Damián Blasi +1
Lexical ambiguity is widespread in language, allowing for the reuse of economical word forms and therefore making language more efficient. If ambiguous words cannot be disambiguate…
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…
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…
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…