Many NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the dependencies—who did what to whom—from natural language sentences. This task can be understood as the inverse of …
Languages differ in how they divide up the world into concepts and words; eg, in contrast to English, Swahili has a single concept forbelly'andwomb'. We investigate these differences in …
In recent years linguistic typology, which classifies the world's languages according to their functional and structural properties, has been widely used to support multilingual NLP. While …
Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the tasks of both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) …
EM Bender - Linguistic Typology, 2016 - degruyter.com
This paper explores the ways in which the field of natural language processing (NLP) can and does benefit from work in linguistic typology. I describe the recent increase in interest in …
The idea that being bilingual benefits one's cognitive development and performance has been greatly challenged over the last years. If such an effect exists, as some studies …
Linguists and psychologists have long been studying cross-linguistic transfer, the influence of native language properties on linguistic performance in a foreign language. In this work …
EM Bender, MW Goodman, J Crowgey… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2013 - aclanthology.org
We propose to bring together two kinds of linguistic resources—interlinear glossed text (IGT) and a language-independent precision grammar resource—to automatically create …
Most natural language models and tools are restricted to one language, typically English. For researchers in the behavioral sciences investigating languages other than English, and …