Volume 3 (2020)
Papers
Preface: SCiL 2020 Editors' Note
Allyson Ettinger, Gaja Jarosz, and Max Nelson
The stability of segmental properties across genre and corpus types in low-resource languages
Uriel Cohen Priva, Shiying Yang, and Emily Strand
Modeling Behavior in Truth Value Judgment Task Experiments
Brandon Waldon and Judith Degen
Probing RNN Encoder-Decoder Generalization of Subregular Functions using Reduplication
Max Nelson, Hossep Dolatian, Jonathan Rawski, and Brandon Prickett
Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods
Maria Ryskina, Ella Rabinovich, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, David R. Mortensen, and Yulia Tsvetkov
Evolving constraints and rules in Harmonic Grammar
Elliott Moreton
Interpreting Verbal Irony: Linguistic Strategies and the Connection to the Type of Semantic Incongruity
Debanjan Ghosh, Elena Musi, Kartikeya Upasani, and Smaranda Muresan
Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology in Artificial Neural Networks With Prior Knowledge
Katharina Kann
Modeling Conventionalization and Predictability within MWEs at the Brain Level
Shohini Bhattasali, Murielle Popa-Fabre, Christophe Pallier, and John Hale
DialectGram: Detecting Dialectal Variation at Multiple Geographic Resolutions
Hang Jiang, Haoshen Hong, Yuxing Chen, and Vivek Kulkarni
A principled derivation of Harmonic Grammar
Giorgio Magri
Modeling unsupervised phonetic and phonological learning in Generative Adversarial Phonology
Gašper Beguš
Phonotactic learning with neural language models
Connor Mayer and Max Nelson
An IBSP Description of Sanskrit /n/-Retroflexion
Ayla Karakaş
Assessing the ability of Transformer-based Neural Models to represent structurally unbounded dependencies
Jillian K. Da Costa and Rui P. Chaves
Neural network learning of the Russian genitive of negation: optionality and structure sensitivity
Natalia Talmina and Tal Linzen
Modeling Morphological Processing in Human Magnetoencephalography
Yohei Oseki and Alec Marantz
The lexical and grammatical sources of neg-raising inferences
Hannah Y. An and Aaron S. White
Communication-based Evaluation for Natural Language Generation
Benjamin Newman, Reuben Cohn-Gordon, and Christopher Potts
Multi-Input Strict Local Functions for Tonal Phonology
Jonathan Rawski and Hossep Dolatian
The Subregular Complexity of Syntactic Islands
Nazila Shafiei and Thomas Graf
Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Templatic Morphology
Hossep Dolatian and Jonathan Rawski
Lexical databases for computational analyses: A linguistic perspective
Robert Malouf, Farrell Ackerman, and Artrus Semenuks
What Code-Switching Strategies are Effective in Dialogue Systems?
Emily Ahn, Cecilia Jimenez, Yulia Tsvetkov, and Alan Black
MonaLog: a Lightweight System for Natural Language Inference Based on Monotonicity
Hai Hu, Qi Chen, Kyle Richardson, Atreyee Mukherjee, Lawrence S. Moss, and Sandra Kübler
Tier-Based Strictly Local Stringsets: Perspectives from Model and Automata Theory
Dakotah Lambert and James Rogers
Automating Gloss Generation in Interlinear Glossed Text
Angelina McMillan-Major
What do you mean, BERT? Assessing BERT as a Distributional Semantics Model
Timothee Mickus, Denis Paperno, Mathieu Constant, and Kees van Deemter
Modeling the Learning of the Person Case Constraint
Adam Liter and Naomi H. Feldman
A Closer Look at the Performance of Neural Language Models on Reflexive Anaphor Licensing
Jennifer Hu, Sherry Y. Chen, and Roger P. Levy
Extending the Autosegmental Input Strictly Local Framework: Metrical Dominance and Floating Tones
Yuhong Zhu
Interpreting Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Russian Inflectional Morphology
David L. King, Andrea D. Sims, and Micha Elsner
Stop the Morphological Cycle, I Want to Get Off: Modeling the Development of Fusion
Micha Elsner, Martha B. Johnson, Stephanie Antetomaso, and Andrea D. Sims
The Role of Linguistic Features in Domain Adaptation: TAG Parsing of Questions
Aarohi Srivastava, Robert Frank, Sarah Widder, and David Chartash
Graph-to-Graph Meaning Representation Transformations for Human-Robot Dialogue
Mitchell Abrams, Claire Bonial, and Lucia Donatelli
Extended Abstracts
Script Knowledge Constrains Ellipses in Fragments - Evidence from Production Data and Language Modeling
Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus, and Ingo Reich
Information-theoretic Characterization of the Sub-regular Hierarchy
Huteng Dai and Richard Futrell
The Role of Information Theory in Gap-Filler Dependencies
Gregory Kobele, Linyang He, and Ming Xiang
Quantifier-free tree transductions
Shiori Ikawa, Akane Ohtaka, and Adam Jardine
Inferring Minimalist Grammars with an SMT-Solver
Sagar Indurkhya
Extending adaptor grammars to learn phonological alternations
Canaan Breiss and Colin Wilson
Induction of Minimalist Grammars over Morphemes
Marina Ermolaeva
Immature Representation or Immature Deployment? Modeling Child Pronoun Resolution
Hannah Forsythe and Lisa Pearl
Modelling Non-local Maps as Strictly Piecewise Functions
Phillip A. Burness and Kevin McMullin
Abstracts
Constraint summation in phonological theory
Benjamin Storme and Giorgio Magri
BLiMP: A Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for English
Alex Warstadt, Alicia Parrish, Haokun Liu, Anhad Mohananey, Wei Peng, Sheng-Fu Wang, and Samuel R. Bowman
Equiprobable Mappings in Weighted Constraint Grammars
Arto Tapani Anttila, Scott Borgeson, and Giorgio Magri
Questioning to Resolve Transduction Problems
Eric Meinhardt, Anna Mai, Eric Bakovic, and Adam McCollum
Frequency Matching Behavior in On-line MaxEnt Learners
Charlie O'Hara
Frequency-(in)dependent Regularization in Language Production and Cultural Transmission
Emily Morgan and Roger P. Levy
Crosslinguistic Word Orders Enable an Efficient Tradeoff of Memory and Surprisal
Michael Hahn and Richard Futrell
Tensor Product Decomposition Networks: Uncovering Representations of Structure Learned by Neural Networks
Richard T. McCoy, Tal Linzen, Ewan Dunbar, and Paul Smolensky
Semantic Categories of Artifacts and Animals Reflect Efficient Coding
Noga Zaslavsky, Terry Regier, Naftali Tishby, and Charles Kemp
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