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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…
Characterizing Sociolinguistic Variation in the Competing Vaccination Communities
Shahan Ali Memon, Aman Tyagi, David R. Mortensen +1
Public health practitioners and policy makers grapple with the challenge of devising effective message-based interventions for debunking public health misinformation in cyber commu…
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…