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10/13/2021
Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages
Natural language processing (NLP) systems have become a central technolo...
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09/30/2021
A surprisal–duration trade-off across and within the world's languages
While there exist scores of natural languages, each with its unique feat...
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04/29/2021
How (Non-)Optimal is the Lexicon?
The mapping of lexical meanings to wordforms is a major feature of natur...
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04/13/2021
On the interpretation and significance of bias metrics in texts: a PMI-based approach
In recent years, the use of word embeddings has become popular to measur...
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04/13/2021
Finding Concept-specific Biases in Form–Meaning Associations
This work presents an information-theoretic operationalisation of cross-...
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10/05/2020
Speakers Fill Lexical Semantic Gaps with Context
Lexical ambiguity is widespread in language, allowing for the reuse of e...
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05/03/2020
On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs
We use large-scale corpora in six different gendered languages, along wi...
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10/29/2019