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A Massively Multilingual Analysis of Cross-linguality in Shared Embedding Space
Alex Jones, William Yang Wang, Kyle Mahowald
In cross-lingual language models, representations for many different languages live in the same space. Here, we investigate the linguistic and non-linguistic factors affecting sent…
How (Non-)Optimal is the Lexicon?
Tiago Pimentel, Irene Nikkarinen, Kyle Mahowald +2
The mapping of lexical meanings to wordforms is a major feature of natural languages. While usage pressures might assign short words to frequent meanings (Zipf's law of abbreviatio…
Decrypting Cryptic Crosswords: Semantically Complex Wordplay Puzzles as a Target for NLP
Josh Rozner, Christopher Potts, Kyle Mahowald
Cryptic crosswords, the dominant crossword variety in the UK, are a promising target for advancing NLP systems that seek to process semantically complex, highly compositional langu…
Deep Subjecthood: Higher-Order Grammatical Features in Multilingual BERT
Isabel Papadimitriou, Ethan A. Chi, Richard Futrell +1
We investigate how Multilingual BERT (mBERT) encodes grammar by examining how the high-order grammatical feature of morphosyntactic alignment (how different languages define what c…