3 papers
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.CL2022
Zero-shot Cross-Linguistic Learning of Event Semantics
Malihe Alikhani, Thomas Kober, Bashar Alhafni +6
Typologically diverse languages offer systems of lexical and grammatical aspect that allow speakers to focus on facets of event structure in ways that comport with the specific com…