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cs.CL2026
What makes a word hard to learn? Modeling L1 influence on English vocabulary difficulty
Jonas Mayer Martins, Zhuojing Huang, Aaricia Herygers +1
What makes a word difficult to learn, and how does the difficulty depend on the learner's native language? We computationally model vocabulary difficulty for English learners whose…
cs.CL2026
Vocabulary shapes cross-lingual variation of word-order learnability in language models
Jonas Mayer Martins, Jaap Jumelet, Viola Priesemann +1
Why do some languages like Czech permit free word order, while others like English do not? We address this question by pretraining transformer language models on a spectrum of synt…
cs.CL2018
Multimodal Grounding for Language Processing
Lisa Beinborn, Teresa Botschen, Iryna Gurevych
This survey discusses how recent developments in multimodal processing facilitate conceptual grounding of language. We categorize the information flow in multimodal processing with…