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cs.CL2020
Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain
William Dyer, Richard Futrell, Zoey Liu +1
Languages vary in their placement of multiple adjectives before, after, or surrounding the noun, but they typically exhibit strong intra-language tendencies on the relative order o…
cs.CL2020
Structural Supervision Improves Few-Shot Learning and Syntactic Generalization in Neural Language Models
Ethan Wilcox, Peng Qian, Richard Futrell +3
Humans can learn structural properties about a word from minimal experience, and deploy their learned syntactic representations uniformly in different grammatical contexts. We asse…
q-bio.NC2020
An information-theoretic account of semantic interference in word production
Richard Futrell
I present a computational-level model of semantic interference effects in word production. Word production is cast as a rate-distortion problem where an agent selects words to mini…