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Neural Proto-Language Reconstruction
Chenxuan Cui, Ying Chen, Qinxin Wang +1
Proto-form reconstruction has been a painstaking process for linguists. Recently, computational models such as RNN and Transformers have been proposed to automate this process. We…
Evaluating Self-supervised Speech Models on a Taiwanese Hokkien Corpus
Yi-Hui Chou, Kalvin Chang, Meng-Ju Wu +12
Taiwanese Hokkien is declining in use and status due to a language shift towards Mandarin in Taiwan. This is partly why it is a low resource language in NLP and speech research tod…
Transformed Protoform Reconstruction
Young Min Kim, Kalvin Chang, Chenxuan Cui +1
Protoform reconstruction is the task of inferring what morphemes or words appeared like in the ancestral languages of a set of daughter languages. Meloni et al. (2021) achieved the…
PWESuite: Phonetic Word Embeddings and Tasks They Facilitate
Vilém Zouhar, Kalvin Chang, Chenxuan Cui +4
Mapping words into a fixed-dimensional vector space is the backbone of modern NLP. While most word embedding methods successfully encode semantic information, they overlook phoneti…
Testing the Ability of Language Models to Interpret Figurative Language
Emmy Liu, Chen Cui, Kenneth Zheng +1
Figurative and metaphorical language are commonplace in discourse, and figurative expressions play an important role in communication and cognition. However, figurative language ha…
Learning the Ordering of Coordinate Compounds and Elaborate Expressions in Hmong, Lahu, and Chinese
Chenxuan Cui, Katherine J. Zhang, David R. Mortensen
Coordinate compounds (CCs) and elaborate expressions (EEs) are coordinate constructions common in languages of East and Southeast Asia. Mortensen (2006) claims that (1) the linear…