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cs.CL2023
Spelling convention sensitivity in neural language models
Elizabeth Nielsen, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark
We examine whether large neural language models, trained on very large collections of varied English text, learn the potentially long-distance dependency of British versus American…
cs.CL2023
Prosodic features improve sentence segmentation and parsing
Elizabeth Nielsen, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Steedman
Parsing spoken dialogue presents challenges that parsing text does not, including a lack of clear sentence boundaries. We know from previous work that prosody helps in parsing sing…
cs.CL2021
Prosodic segmentation for parsing spoken dialogue
Elizabeth Nielsen, Mark Steedman, Sharon Goldwater
Parsing spoken dialogue poses unique difficulties, including disfluencies and unmarked boundaries between sentence-like units. Previous work has shown that prosody can help with pa…