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Quantifying Cognitive Factors in Lexical Decline
David Francis, Ella Rabinovich, Farhan Samir +2
We adopt an evolutionary view on language change in which cognitive factors (in addition to social ones) affect the fitness of words and their success in the linguistic ecosystem.…
Competition in Cross-situational Word Learning: A Computational Study
Aida Nematzadeh, Zahra Shekarchi, Thomas L. Griffiths +1
Children learn word meanings by tapping into the commonalities across different situations in which words are used and overcome the high level of uncertainty involved in early word…
Pick a Fight or Bite your Tongue: Investigation of Gender Differences in Idiomatic Language Usage
Ella Rabinovich, Hila Gonen, Suzanne Stevenson
A large body of research on gender-linked language has established foundations regarding cross-gender differences in lexical, emotional, and topical preferences, along with their s…
Exploration of Gender Differences in COVID-19 Discourse on Reddit
Jai Aggarwal, Ella Rabinovich, Suzanne Stevenson
Decades of research on differences in the language of men and women have established postulates about preferences in lexical, topical, and emotional expression between the two gend…
The Typology of Polysemy: A Multilingual Distributional Framework
Ella Rabinovich, Yang Xu, Suzanne Stevenson
Lexical semantic typology has identified important cross-linguistic generalizations about the variation and commonalities in polysemy patterns---how languages package up meanings i…
Say Anything: Automatic Semantic Infelicity Detection in L2 English Indefinite Pronouns
Ella Rabinovich, Julia Watson, Barend Beekhuizen +1
Computational research on error detection in second language speakers has mainly addressed clear grammatical anomalies typical to learners at the beginner-to-intermediate level. We…