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Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths
Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox +2
Zipf (1935) posited that wordforms are optimized to minimize utterances' communicative costs. Under the assumption that cost is given by an utterance's length, he supported this cl…
Quantifying the redundancy between prosody and text
Lukas Wolf, Tiago Pimentel, Evelina Fedorenko +4
Prosody -- the suprasegmental component of speech, including pitch, loudness, and tempo -- carries critical aspects of meaning. However, the relationship between the information co…
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…
The Causal Influence of Grammatical Gender on Distributional Semantics
Karolina Stańczak, Kevin Du, Adina Williams +2
How much meaning influences gender assignment across languages is an active area of research in linguistics and cognitive science. We can view current approaches as aiming to deter…
Formal Aspects of Language Modeling
Ryan Cotterell, Anej Svete, Clara Meister +2
Large language models have become one of the most commonly deployed NLP inventions. In the past half-decade, their integration into core natural language processing tools has drama…
A Cross-Linguistic Pressure for Uniform Information Density in Word Order
Thomas Hikaru Clark, Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel +4
While natural languages differ widely in both canonical word order and word order flexibility, their word orders still follow shared cross-linguistic statistical patterns, often at…
On the Efficacy of Sampling Adapters
Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Luca Malagutti +2
Sampling is a common strategy for generating text from probabilistic models, yet standard ancestral sampling often results in text that is incoherent or ungrammatical. To alleviate…
Testing the Predictions of Surprisal Theory in 11 Languages
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Tiago Pimentel, Clara Meister +2
A fundamental result in psycholinguistics is that less predictable words take a longer time to process. One theoretical explanation for this finding is Surprisal Theory (Hale, 2001…