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Social changes through the lens of language: A big data study of Chinese modal verbs
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In: PLoS One (2022)
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Leech’s corpus-based comparison of English modal verbs from 1961 to 1992 showed the steep decline of all modal verbs together, which he ascribed to continuing changes towards a more equal and less authority-driven society. This study inspired many diachronic and synchronic studies, mostly on English modal verbs and largely assuming the correlation between the use of modal verbs and power relations. Yet, there are continuing debates on sampling design and the choices of corpora. In addition, this hypothesis has not been attested in any other language with comparable corpus size or examined with longitudinal studies. This study tracks the use of Chinese modal verbs from 1901 to 2009, covering the historical events of the New Culture Movement, the establishment of the PRC, the implementation of simplified characters and the completion and finalization of simplification of the Chinese writing system. We found that the usage of modal verbs did rise and fall during the last century, and for more complex reasons. We also demonstrated that our longitudinal end-to-end approach produces convincing analysis on English modal verbs that reconciles conflicting results in the literature adopting Leech’s point-to-point approach.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34982791 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260210 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8726480/
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Database of word-level statistics for Mandarin Chinese (DoWLS-MAN)
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In: ISSN: 1554-351X ; EISSN: 1554-3528 ; Behavior Research Methods ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03328510 ; Behavior Research Methods, Psychonomic Society, Inc, In press, ⟨10.3758/s13428-021-01620-7⟩ (2021)
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Not all arguments are processed equally: a distributional model of argument complexity
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In: ISSN: 1574-020X ; EISSN: 1574-0218 ; Language Resources and Evaluation ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03533181 ; Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer Verlag, 2021, 55 (4), pp.873-900. ⟨10.1007/s10579-021-09533-9⟩ (2021)
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Distribution of Mandarin synesthetic adjectives in five senses
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Not all arguments are processed equally: a distributional model of argument complexity
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In: Springer Netherlands (2021)
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From Contact Prevention to Social Distancing: The Co-Evolution of Bilingual Neologisms and Public Health Campaigns in Two Cities in the Time of COVID-19 ...
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From Contact Prevention to Social Distancing: The Co-Evolution of Bilingual Neologisms and Public Health Campaigns in Two Cities in the Time of COVID-19 ...
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Automatic Analysis of Linguistic Features in Journal Articles of Different Academic Impacts with Feature Engineering Techniques ...
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Decoding Word Embeddings with Brain-Based Semantic Features ...
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Modeling the Influence of Verb Aspect on the Activation of Typical Event Locations with BERT ...
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Predicting gender and age categories in English conversations using lexical, non-lexical, and turn-taking features ...
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Improving attention model based on cognition grounded data for sentiment analysis
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Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation
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In: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP) ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03042410 ; Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP), Dec 2020, Suzhou, China (2020)
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