Volume 2 (2019)
Papers
Preface: SCiL 2019 Editors’ Note
Gaja Jarosz, Max Nelson, Brendan O'Connor, and Joe Pater
Can Entropy Explain Successor Surprisal Effects in Reading?
Marten van Schijndel and Tal Linzen
RedTyp: A Database of Reduplication with Computational Models
Hossep Dolatian and Jeffrey Heinz
Unsupervised Learning of Cross-Lingual Symbol Embeddings Without Parallel Data
Mark Granroth-Wilding and Hannu Toivonen
Q-Theory Representations are Logically Equivalent to Autosegmental Representations
Nick Danis and Adam Jardine
Modeling Clausal Complementation for a Grammar Engineering Resource
Olga Zamaraeva, Kristen Howell, and Emily M. Bender
Do RNNs learn human-like abstract word order preferences?
Richard Futrell and Roger P. Levy
Constraint breeding during on-line incremental learning
Elliott Moreton
An Incremental Iterated Response Model of Pragmatics
Reuben Cohn-Gordon, Noah Goodman, and Christopher Potts
Learning Exceptionality and Variation with Lexically Scaled MaxEnt
Coral Hughto, Andrew Lamont, Brandon Prickett, and Gaja Jarosz
Jabberwocky Parsing: Dependency Parsing with Lexical Noise
Jungo Kasai and Robert Frank
A Conceptual Spaces Model of Socially Motivated Language Change
Heather Burnett and Olivier Bonami
Identifying Participation of Individual Verbs or VerbNet Classes in the Causative Alternation
Esther Seyffarth
Using Sentiment Induction to Understand Variation in Gendered Online Communities
Lucy Li and Julia Mendelsohn
On the difficulty of a distributional semantics of spoken language
Grzegorz Chrupała, Lieke Gelderloos, Ákos Kádár, and Afra Alishahi
Distributional Effects of Gender Contrasts Across Categories
Timothee Mickus, Olivier Bonami, and Denis Paperno
Guess Who’s Coming (and Who’s Going): Bringing Perspective to the Rational Speech Acts Framework
Carolyn Jane Anderson and Brian W. Dillon
C-Command Dependencies as TSL String Constraints
Thomas Graf and Nazila Shafiei
Modeling the Acquisition of Words with Multiple Meanings
Libby Barak, Sammy Floyd, and Adele Goldberg
Evaluation Order Effects in Dynamic Continuized CCG: From Negative Polarity Items to Balanced Punctuation
Michael White
Abstract Meaning Representation for Human-Robot Dialogue
Claire N. Bonial, Lucia Donatelli, Jessica Ervin, and Clare R. Voss
A Logical and Computational Methodology for Exploring Systems of Phonotactic Constraints
Dakotah Lambert and James Rogers
Augmentic Compositional Models for Knowledge Base Completion Using Gradient Representations
Matthias R. Lalisse and Paul Smolensky
Case assignment in TSL syntax: a case study
Mai Ha Vu, Nazila Shafiei, and Thomas Graf
On Evaluating the Generalization of LSTM Models in Formal Languages
Mirac Suzgun, Yonatan Belinkov, and Stuart M. Shieber
Verb Argument Structure Alternations in Word and Sentence Embeddings
Katharina Kann, Alex Warstadt, Adina Williams, and Samuel R. Bowman
Extended Abstracts
Empty Categories Help Parse the Overt
Weiwei Sun
Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time
Dhivya I. Chinnappa, Alexis Palmer, and Eduardo Blanco
What Do Neural Networks Actually Learn, When They Learn to Identify Idioms?
Marco Silvio Giuseppe Senaldi, Yuri Bizzoni, and Alessandro Lenci
Discourse Relations and Signaling Information: Anchoring Discourse Signals in RST-DT
Yang Liu and Amir Zeldes
RNN Classification of English Vowels: Nasalized or Not
Ling Liu, Mans Hulden, and Rebecca Scarborough
Developing a real-time translator from neural signals to text: An articulatory phonetics approach
Lindy Comstock, Ariel Tankus, Michelle Tran, Nader Pouratian, Itzhak Fried, and William Speier
Local Processes of Homophone Acquisition
Deniz Beser and Spencer Caplan
On the Interaction Between Dependency Frequency and Semantic Fit in Sentence Processing
Soo Hyun Ryu and Rui P. Chaves
Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese
Yilun Zhu, Yang Liu, Siyao Peng, Austin Blodgett, Yushi Zhao, and Nathan Schneider
Formal Characterizations of True and False Sour Grapes
Caitlin Smith and Charlie O'Hara
Place and Position are Computationally Different
Charlie O'Hara
Tense and Aspect Semantics for Sentential AMR
Lucia Donatelli, Nathan Schneider, William Croft, and Michael Regan
Linguistic alignment is affected more by lexical surprisal rather than social power
Yang Xu, Jeremy Cole, and David Reitter
Simultaneous learning of vowel harmony and segmentation
Ezer Rasin, Nur Lan, and Roni Katzir
Non-Entailed Subsequences as a Challenge for Natural Language Inference
Richard T. McCoy and Tal Linzen
Abstracts
Are All Languages Equally Hard to Language-Model?
Ryan Cotterell, Sebastian J. Mielke, Jason Eisner, and Brian Roark
Colorless green recurrent networks dream hierarchically
Kristina Gulordava, Piotr Bojanowski, Edouard Grave, Tal Linzen, and Marco Baroni
Rethinking Phonotactic Complexity
Tiago Pimentel, Brian Roark, and Ryan Cotterell
The computational cost of generalizations: An example from micromorphology
Sedigheh Moradi, Alëna Aksënova, and Thomas Graf
Normalization may be ineffective for phonetic category learning
Kasia Hitczenko, Reiko Mazuka, Micha Elsner, and Naomi H. Feldman
Measuring Phonological Distance in a Tonal Language: An Experimental and Computational Study with Cantonese
Youngah Do and Ryan Ka Yau Lai
Targeted Syntactic Evaluation of Language Models
Rebecca Marvin and Tal Linzen
Transient blend states and discrete agreement-driven errors in sentence production
Matthew Goldrick, Laurel Brehm, Pyeong Whan Cho, and Paul Smolensky
Learning phonotactic restrictions on multiple tiers
Kevin McMullin, Alëna Aksënova, and Aniello De Santo
Evaluating Domain-General Learning of Parametric Stress Typology
Gaja Jarosz and Aleksei Nazarov
How the Structure of the Constraint Space Enables Learning
Jane Chandlee, Remi Eyraud, Jeffrey Heinz, Adam Jardine, and Jonathan Rawski
Processing Non-Concatenative Morphology – A Developmental Computational Model
Tamar Johnson and Inbal Arnon