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What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity
Çağrı Çöltekin, Taraka Rama
We present an analysis of eight measures used for quantifying morphological complexity of natural languages. The measures we study are corpus-based measures of morphological comple…
Are pre-trained text representations useful for multilingual and multi-dimensional language proficiency modeling?
Taraka Rama, Sowmya Vajjala
Development of language proficiency models for non-native learners has been an active area of interest in NLP research for the past few years. Although language proficiency is mult…
Probing Multilingual BERT for Genetic and Typological Signals
Taraka Rama, Lisa Beinborn, Steffen Eger
We probe the layers in multilingual BERT (mBERT) for phylogenetic and geographic language signals across 100 languages and compute language distances based on the mBERT representat…
Tübingen-Oslo system: Linear regression works the best at Predicting Current and Future Psychological Health from Childhood Essays in the CLPsych 2018 Shared Task
Çağrı Çöltekin, Taraka Rama
This paper describes our efforts in predicting current and future psychological health from childhood essays within the scope of the CLPsych-2018 Shared Task. We experimented with…
Three tree priors and five datasets: A study of the effect of tree priors in Indo-European phylogenetics
Taraka Rama
The age of the root of the Indo-European language family has received much attention since the application of Bayesian phylogenetic methods by Gray and Atkinson(2003). The root age…
Experiments with Universal CEFR Classification
Sowmya Vajjala, Taraka Rama
The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) guidelines describe language proficiency of learners on a scale of 6 levels. While the description of CEFR guidelines is generic a…