Seq2Edits: Sequence transduction using span-level edit operations

F Stahlberg, S Kumar - arxiv preprint arxiv:2009.11136, 2020 - arxiv.org
We propose Seq2Edits, an open-vocabulary approach to sequence editing for natural
language processing (NLP) tasks with a high degree of overlap between input and output …

Generalising to German plural noun classes, from the perspective of a recurrent neural network

V Dankers, A Langedijk, K McCurdy… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Inflectional morphology has since long been a useful testing ground for broader questions
about generalisation in language and the viability of neural network models as cognitive …

Surprisal estimators for human reading times need character models

BD Oh, C Clark, W Schuler - … of the 59th Annual Meeting of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
While the use of character models has been popular in NLP applications, it has not been
explored much in the context of psycholinguistic modeling. This paper presents a character …

Morphological Processing of Low-Resource Languages: Where We Are and What's Next

A Wiemerslage, M Silfverberg, C Yang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Automatic morphological processing can aid downstream natural language processing
applications, especially for low-resource languages, and assist language documentation …

Morphological inflection: A reality check

J Kodner, S Payne, S Khalifa, Z Liu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.15637, 2023 - arxiv.org
Morphological inflection is a popular task in sub-word NLP with both practical and cognitive
applications. For years now, state-of-the-art systems have reported high, but also highly …

VeLeRo: an inflected verbal lexicon of standard Romanian and a quantitative analysis of morphological predictability

B Herce, B Pricop - Language Resources and Evaluation, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents VeLeRo, an inflected lexicon of Standard Romanian which contains the
full paradigm of 7297 verbs in phonological form. We explain the process by which the …

The paradigm discovery problem

A Erdmann, M Elsner, S Wu, R Cotterell… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This work treats the paradigm discovery problem (PDP), the task of learning an inflectional
morphological system from unannotated sentences. We formalize the PDP and develop …

Neural Approaches to Historical Words Reconstruction

C Fourrier - 2022 - theses.hal.science
In historical linguistics, cognates are words that descend in direct line from a common
ancestor, called their proto-form, and therefore are representative of their respective …

Token frequency as a determinant of morphological change

H Sims-Williams - Journal of Linguistics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This paper demonstrates that morphological change tends to involve the replacement of low
frequency forms in inflectional paradigms by innovative forms based on high frequency …

An analogical approach to the typology of inflectional complexity

MG Naranjo - Journal of Language Modelling, 2024 - jlm.ipipan.waw.pl
This paper studies the inflectional complexity of nouns, verbs and adjectives in 137 datasets,
across 71 languages. I follow Ackerman and Malouf (2013) in distinguishing between E …