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A surprisal--duration trade-off across and within the world's languages ...
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Anthology paper link: https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.73/ Abstract: While there exist scores of natural languages, each with its unique features and idiosyncrasies, they all share a unifying theme: enabling human communication. We may thus reasonably predict that human cognition shapes how these languages evolve and are used. Assuming that the capacity to process information is roughly constant across human populations, we expect a surprisal--duration trade-off to arise both across and within languages. We analyse this trade-off using a corpus of 600 languages and, after controlling for several potential confounds, we find strong supporting evidence in both settings. Specifically, we find that, on average, phones are produced faster in languages where they are less surprising, and vice versa. Further, we confirm that more surprising phones are longer, on average, in 319 languages out of the 600. We thus conclude that there is strong evidence of a surprisal--duration trade-off in operation, both ...
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Cognitive Modeling; Computational Linguistics; Language Models; Machine Learning; Machine Learning and Data Mining; Natural Language Processing
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URL: https://underline.io/lecture/37827-a-surprisal--duration-trade-off-across-and-within-the-world's-languages https://dx.doi.org/10.48448/799j-9p13
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What About the Precedent: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Common Law ...
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What About the Precedent: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Common Law
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In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (2021)
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Synthetic Textual Features for the Large-Scale Detection of Basic-level Categories in English and Mandarin ...
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Proceedings of the 17th European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ...
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Metaphor Detection Using Context and Concreteness
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In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing (2020)
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Variable typing: Assigning meaning to variables in mathematical text
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Stathopoulos, YA; Baker, Simon; Rei, Marek. - : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018. : https://aclanthology.org/volumes/N18-1/, 2018. : NAACL HLT 2018 - 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Conference, 2018
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Unsupervised Timeline Generation for Wikipedia History Articles ...
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Improving argument overlap for proposition-based summarisation ...
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Predicting the impact of scientific concepts using full‐text features
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Unsupervised Timeline Generation for Wikipedia History Articles
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Bauer, Sandro; Teufel, Simone. - : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016. : https://aclanthology.org/volumes/D16-1/, 2016. : Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016
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Improving argument overlap for proposition-based summarisation
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Fang, Y; Teufel, Simone. - : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016. : http://aclanthology.info/papers/P16-2078/improving-argument-overlap-for-proposition-based-summarisation, 2016. : 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Short Papers, 2016
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Identifying Problem Statements in Scientific Text
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Heffernan, Kevin; Teufel, Simone. - : University of Potsdam, 2016. : http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/comma2016/, 2016. : Workshop on Foundations of the Language of Argumentation (in conjunction with COMMA), 2016
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A Proposition-based Abstractive Summarizer
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Fang, Y; Zhu, H; Muszynska, E. - : International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2016. : https://aclanthology.org/volumes/C16-1/, 2016. : Proceedings of COLING 2016, 2016
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MEAD - A Platform for Multidocument Multilingual Text Summarization
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