4 papers
Adverbs, Surprisingly
Dmitry Nikolaev, Collin F. Baker, Miriam R. L. Petruck +1
This paper begins with the premise that adverbs are neglected in computational linguistics. This view derives from two analyses: a literature review and a novel adverb dataset to p…
Additive manifesto decomposition: A policy domain aware method for understanding party positioning
Tanise Ceron, Dmitry Nikolaev, Sebastian Padó
Automatic extraction of party (dis)similarities from texts such as party election manifestos or parliamentary speeches plays an increasing role in computational political science.…
Representation biases in sentence transformers
Dmitry Nikolaev, Sebastian Padó
Variants of the BERT architecture specialised for producing full-sentence representations often achieve better performance on downstream tasks than sentence embeddings extracted fr…
Word-order typology in Multilingual BERT: A case study in subordinate-clause detection
Dmitry Nikolaev, Sebastian Padó
The capabilities and limitations of BERT and similar models are still unclear when it comes to learning syntactic abstractions, in particular across languages. In this paper, we us…