SCiL 2021 poster sessions | Society for Computation in Linguistics

Syntax

5: Strong learning of probabilistic Tree Adjoining Grammars
12: Consistent unsupervised estimators for anchored PCFGs
13: A Data-driven Approach to Crosslinguistic Structural Biases
23: The Crosslinguistic Relationship between Ordering Flexibility and Dependency Length Minimization: A Data-Driven Approach
28: Frequency-Dependent Regularization in Syntactic Constructions
29: Structure-(in)dependent interpretation of phrases in humans and LSTMs
32: Efficiency of Top-Down Parsing of Recursive Adjunction for Tree Adjoining Grammar
35: A Minimalist Approach to Facilitatory Effects in Stacked Relative Clauses
42: Comparing methods of tree-construction across mildly context-sensitive formalisms
43: Dependency lengths in speech and writing: A cross-linguistic comparison via YouDePP, a pipeline for scraping and parsing YouTube captions
70: Learning the surface structure of wh-questions in English and French with a non-parametric Bayesian model
80: Can RNNs trained on harder subject-verb agreement instances still perform well on easier ones?

15: Novel kinematic relations from linear second-order dynamics
18 Look at that! BERT can be easily distracted from paying attention to morphosyntax
19: Learnability of derivationally opaque processes in the Gestural Harmony Model
25: Overview of AMALGUM – Large Silver Quality Annotations across English Genres
33: Information flow, artificial phonology and typology
34: Vowel Harmony viewed as Error-Correcting Code
39: Consonant harmony, disharmony, memory and time scales
45: Deep neural networks easily learn unnatural infixation and reduplication patterns
55: Extracting English lexical borrowings from Spanish newswire
59: SNACS Annotation of Case Markers and Adpositions in Hindi
61: Lexical strata and phonotactic uncertainty minimization
77: Modeling cross-linguistic production of referring expressions
78: Learnability of indexed constraint analyses of phonological opacity
86: Head Movement Makes Distributed Morphology Linea

2: Every ambiguity isn’t syntactic in nature: Testing a Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity
4: Analysing Lexical Semantic Change with Contextualised Word Representations
6: Pragmatically Informative Color Generation by Grounding Contextual Modifiers
11: Most’ vs ‘more than half’: A pragmatic explanation
17: Supersense and Sensibility: Proxy Tasks for Semantic Annotation of Prepositions
22: Tell Me Everything You Know: A Conversation Update System for the Rational Speech Acts Framework
31: How to marry a star: Probabilistic constraints for meaning in context
36: How to apply for financial aid: Exploring perplexity and jargon in texts for non-expert audiences\
52: Using word embeddings to uncover discourses
53: Every quantifier isn’t the same: Informativity matters for ambiguity resolution in quantifier-negation sentences
58: Global divergence and local convergence of utterance semantic representations in dialogue
67: Human-Model Divergence in the Handling of Vagueness
73: Predicting scalar inferences from “or” to “not both” using neural sentence encoders
74: Distributional semantic representations of visual concepts
82: Modeling Change in Verb Subcategorization: Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries