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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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Finding Concept-specific Biases in Form–Meaning Associations ...
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Modeling the Unigram Distribution
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In: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (2021)
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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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Finding Concept-specific Biases in Form–Meaning Associations
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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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A Non-Linear Structural Probe
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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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Disambiguatory Signals are Stronger in Word-initial Positions
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In: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume (2021)
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How (Non-)Optimal is the Lexicon?
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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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A Bayesian Framework for Information-Theoretic Probing
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In: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2021)
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