6 papers
Probing Character-level Transformers for the Spanish L-shaped Morphome
Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang, Wiebke Petersen +1
When a transformer learns an irregular morphological pattern, what has it learned? Our test case is the Spanish \emph{L-shaped morphome}, a complex irregular pattern in which the v…
Layer-wise Probing of wav2vec 2.0 and Whisper for Consonant Cluster Reduction in African American English
Hamid Mojarad, Kevin Tang
Self-supervised and supervised speech models are increasingly used to investigate which linguistic information their internal representations encode, and at what level of abstracti…
Transformers over-extend what humans underlearn: the case of Spanish L-shaped morphome
Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang, Dinah Baer-Henney
The cognitive reality of irregular morphological patterns has been debated for decades: do speakers extend them to novel forms, or are they lexical artifacts? A neural network trai…
ParsTranslit: Truly Versatile Tajik-Farsi Transliteration
Rayyan Merchant, Kevin Tang
As a digraphic language, the Persian language utilizes two written standards: Perso-Arabic in Afghanistan and Iran, and Tajik-Cyrillic in Tajikistan. Despite the significant simila…
Frequency matters: Modeling irregular morphological patterns in Spanish with Transformers
Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang, Dinah Baer-Henney
Over the past decade, various studies have addressed how speakers solve the so-called `The Paradigm Cell Filling Problem' (PCFP) \citep{ackerman2009parts} across different language…
Connecting the Persian-speaking World through Transliteration
Rayyan Merchant, Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Kevin Tang
Despite speaking mutually intelligible varieties of the same language, speakers of Tajik Persian, written in a modified Cyrillic alphabet, cannot read Iranian and Afghan texts writ…