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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…
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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…