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Automatic Extraction of Rules Governing Morphological Agreement
Aditi Chaudhary, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Adithya Pratapa +4
Creating a descriptive grammar of a language is an indispensable step for language documentation and preservation. However, at the same time it is a tedious, time-consuming task. I…
Cross-Cultural Similarity Features for Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning of Pragmatically Motivated Tasks
Jimin Sun, Hwijeen Ahn, Chan Young Park +2
Much work in cross-lingual transfer learning explored how to select better transfer languages for multilingual tasks, primarily focusing on typological and genealogical similaritie…
AlloVera: A Multilingual Allophone Database
David R. Mortensen, Xinjian Li, Patrick Littell +6
We introduce a new resource, AlloVera, which provides mappings from 218 allophones to phonemes for 14 languages. Phonemes are contrastive phonological units, and allophones are the…
Universal Phone Recognition with a Multilingual Allophone System
Xinjian Li, Siddharth Dalmia, Juncheng Li +8
Multilingual models can improve language processing, particularly for low resource situations, by sharing parameters across languages. Multilingual acoustic models, however, genera…
Towards Zero-shot Learning for Automatic Phonemic Transcription
Xinjian Li, Siddharth Dalmia, David R. Mortensen +3
Automatic phonemic transcription tools are useful for low-resource language documentation. However, due to the lack of training sets, only a tiny fraction of languages have phonemi…
Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods
Maria Ryskina, Ella Rabinovich, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick +2
We perform statistical analysis of the phenomenon of neology, the process by which new words emerge in a language, using large diachronic corpora of English. We investigate the imp…