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Syntactic Variation Across the Grammar: Modelling a Complex Adaptive System
Jonathan Dunn
While language is a complex adaptive system, most work on syntactic variation observes a few individual constructions in isolation from the rest of the grammar. This means that the…
cantnlp@LT-EDI-2023: Homophobia/Transphobia Detection in Social Media Comments using Spatio-Temporally Retrained Language Models
Sidney G. -J. Wong, Matthew Durward, Benjamin Adams +1
This paper describes our multiclass classification system developed as part of the LTEDI@RANLP-2023 shared task. We used a BERT-based language model to detect homophobic and transp…
Comparing Measures of Linguistic Diversity Across Social Media Language Data and Census Data at Subnational Geographic Areas
Sidney G. -J. Wong, Jonathan Dunn, Benjamin Adams
This paper describes a preliminary study on the comparative linguistic ecology of online spaces (i.e., social media language data) and real-world spaces in Aotearoa New Zealand (i.…
Variation and Instability in Dialect-Based Embedding Spaces
Jonathan Dunn
This paper measures variation in embedding spaces which have been trained on different regional varieties of English while controlling for instability in the embeddings. While prev…
Exploring the Constructicon: Linguistic Analysis of a Computational CxG
Jonathan Dunn
Recent work has formulated the task for computational construction grammar as producing a constructicon given a corpus of usage. Previous work has evaluated these unsupervised gram…
Exposure and Emergence in Usage-Based Grammar: Computational Experiments in 35 Languages
Jonathan Dunn
This paper uses computational experiments to explore the role of exposure in the emergence of construction grammars. While usage-based grammars are hypothesized to depend on a lear…
Register Variation Remains Stable Across 60 Languages
Haipeng Li, Jonathan Dunn, Andrea Nini
This paper measures the stability of cross-linguistic register variation. A register is a variety of a language that is associated with extra-linguistic context. The relationship b…
Stability of Syntactic Dialect Classification Over Space and Time
Jonathan Dunn, Sidney Wong
This paper analyses the degree to which dialect classifiers based on syntactic representations remain stable over space and time. While previous work has shown that the combination…
Corpus Similarity Measures Remain Robust Across Diverse Languages
Haipeng Li, Jonathan Dunn
This paper experiments with frequency-based corpus similarity measures across 39 languages using a register prediction task. The goal is to quantify (i) the distance between differ…
Predicting Embedding Reliability in Low-Resource Settings Using Corpus Similarity Measures
Jonathan Dunn, Haipeng Li, Damian Sastre
This paper simulates a low-resource setting across 17 languages in order to evaluate embedding similarity, stability, and reliability under different conditions. The goal is to use…
Language Identification for Austronesian Languages
Jonathan Dunn, Wikke Nijhof
This paper provides language identification models for low- and under-resourced languages in the Pacific region with a focus on previously unavailable Austronesian languages. Accur…
Learned Construction Grammars Converge Across Registers Given Increased Exposure
Jonathan Dunn, Harish Tayyar Madabushi
This paper measures the impact of increased exposure on whether learned construction grammars converge onto shared representations when trained on data from different registers. Re…
Production vs Perception: The Role of Individuality in Usage-Based Grammar Induction
Jonathan Dunn, Andrea Nini
This paper asks whether a distinction between production-based and perception-based grammar induction influences either (i) the growth curve of grammars and lexicons or (ii) the si…
Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages: Towards a Computational Dialectology
Jonathan Dunn
The goal of this paper is to provide a complete representation of regional linguistic variation on a global scale. To this end, the paper focuses on removing three constraints that…
Finding Variants for Construction-Based Dialectometry: A Corpus-Based Approach to Regional CxGs
Jonathan Dunn
This paper develops a construction-based dialectometry capable of identifying previously unknown constructions and measuring the degree to which a given construction is subject to…
Mapping Languages and Demographics with Georeferenced Corpora
Jonathan Dunn, Ben Adams
This paper evaluates large georeferenced corpora, taken from both web-crawled and social media sources, against ground-truth population and language-census datasets. The goal is to…
Mapping Languages: The Corpus of Global Language Use
Jonathan Dunn
This paper describes a web-based corpus of global language use with a focus on how this corpus can be used for data-driven language mapping. First, the corpus provides a representa…
Modeling the Complexity and Descriptive Adequacy of Construction Grammars
Jonathan Dunn
This paper uses the Minimum Description Length paradigm to model the complexity of CxGs (operationalized as the encoding size of a grammar) alongside their descriptive adequacy (op…
Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar
Jonathan Dunn
A usage-based Construction Grammar (CxG) posits that slot-constraints generalize from common exemplar constructions. But what is the best model of constraint generalization? This p…
Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification
Jonathan Dunn
This paper evaluates global-scale dialect identification for 14 national varieties of English as a means for studying syntactic variation. The paper makes three main contributions:…