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Probing for Reading Times
Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Francesco Ignazio Re +4
Probing has shown that language model representations encode rich linguistic information, but it remains unclear whether they also capture cognitive signals about human processing.…
The Harmonic Structure of Information Contours
Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Franz Nowak +5
The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis proposes that speakers aim to distribute information evenly throughout a text, balancing production effort and listener comprehensi…
Surprise! Uniform Information Density Isn't the Whole Story: Predicting Surprisal Contours in Long-form Discourse
Eleftheria Tsipidi, Franz Nowak, Ryan Cotterell +3
The Uniform Information Density (UID) hypothesis posits that speakers tend to distribute information evenly across linguistic units to achieve efficient communication. Of course, i…
An Exploration of Left-Corner Transformations
Andreas Opedal, Eleftheria Tsipidi, Tiago Pimentel +2
The left-corner transformation (Rosenkrantz and Lewis, 1970) is used to remove left recursion from context-free grammars, which is an important step towards making the grammar pars…
Generating Animations from Screenplays
Yeyao Zhang, Eleftheria Tsipidi, Sasha Schriber +3
Automatically generating animation from natural language text finds application in a number of areas e.g. movie script writing, instructional videos, and public safety. However, tr…