5 papers
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…
On Homophony and Rényi Entropy
Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Simone Teufel +1
Homophony's widespread presence in natural languages is a controversial topic. Recent theories of language optimality have tried to justify its prevalence, despite its negative eff…
Multi-Task and Multi-Corpora Training Strategies to Enhance Argumentative Sentence Linking Performance
Jan Wira Gotama Putra, Simone Teufel, Takenobu Tokunaga
Argumentative structure prediction aims to establish links between textual units and label the relationship between them, forming a structured representation for a given input text…
What About the Precedent: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Common Law
Josef Valvoda, Tiago Pimentel, Niklas Stoehr +2
In common law, the outcome of a new case is determined mostly by precedent cases, rather than by existing statutes. However, how exactly does the precedent influence the outcome of…
It's All in the Name: Mitigating Gender Bias with Name-Based Counterfactual Data Substitution
Rowan Hall Maudslay, Hila Gonen, Ryan Cotterell +1
This paper treats gender bias latent in word embeddings. Previous mitigation attempts rely on the operationalisation of gender bias as a projection over a linear subspace. An alter…