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Lexicological Influence through Language Contacts
Language contacts can be studied in three directions: a) language acquisition; b) language borrowing; c) translation. In this project all of the three directions are investigated. The process of language borrowing is analysed on four levels: phonological,
Aleksandra Banjević
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Towards the Question on the Zero Subject in English
Introduction. The article considers the case, when no subject is present in an impersonal English sentence. Many linguists believe that the subject in this case is implicit, because the sentence preserves its predicativity.
I. S. Stepanenko+2 more
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Comparing knowledge sources for nominal anaphora resolution [PDF]
We compare two ways of obtaining lexical knowledge for antecedent selection in other-anaphora and definite noun phrase coreference. Specifically, we compare an algorithm that relies on links encoded in the manually created lexical hierarchy WordNet and
Markert, K., Nissim, M.
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Statistical Physics of Language Maps in the USA [PDF]
Spatial linguistic surveys often reveal well defined geographical zones where certain linguistic forms are dominant over their alternatives. It has been suggested that these patterns may be understood by analogy with coarsening in models of two dimensional physical systems. Here we investigate this connection by comparing data from the Cambridge Online
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Characteristics of Verbs with Destructive Meaning in Russian and Serbian Languages
The relevance of the study is proved by the fact that the category of destructiveness and the means of its implementation have not received any detailed analysis in linguistics so far.
Maja R. Krstich
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Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Meta Learning
Learning what to share between tasks has been a topic of great importance recently, as strategic sharing of knowledge has been shown to improve downstream task performance.
Augenstein, Isabelle+3 more
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Learning Non-linguistic Skills without Sacrificing Linguistic Proficiency [PDF]
The field of Math-NLP has witnessed significant growth in recent years, motivated by the desire to expand LLM performance to the learning of non-linguistic notions (numerals, and subsequently, arithmetic reasoning). However, non-linguistic skill injection typically comes at a cost for LLMs: it leads to catastrophic forgetting of core linguistic skills,
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Characterizing the impact of geometric properties of word embeddings on task performance [PDF]
Analysis of word embedding properties to inform their use in downstream NLP tasks has largely been studied by assessing nearest neighbors. However, geometric properties of the continuous feature space contribute directly to the use of embedding features ...
Ferhatosmanoglu, Hakan+4 more
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On the reference of zero subjects
The article deals with the issue of the reference of zero subjects which has been very scarcely examined in Lithuanian linguistics. The first part of the article presents a review of the theoretical tools to analyse zero elements and its key theoretical ...
Simona Akamauskaitė, Vytautas Kardelis
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Nominalization and alternations in biomedical language. [PDF]
This paper presents data on alternations in the argument structure of common domain-specific verbs and their associated verbal nominalizations in the PennBioIE corpus.
K Bretonnel Cohen+2 more
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