Search Results - "White, Aaron Steven"
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Frequency, acceptability, and selection: A case study of clause-embedding
Published in Glossa (London) (04-11-2020)“…We investigate the relationship between the frequency with which verbs are found in particular subcategorization frames and the acceptability of those verbs in…”
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Joint Universal Syntactic and Semantic Parsing
Published in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (02-08-2021)“…While numerous attempts have been made to jointly parse syntax and semantics, high performance in one domain typically comes at the price of performance in the…”
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The role of incremental parsing in syntactically conditioned word learning
Published in Cognitive psychology (01-09-2017)“…•16-month-old children use a noun’s syntactic environment as a cue to its meaning.•Their use of these syntactic environments changes between 16 and 19…”
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On believing and hoping whether
Published in Semantics and pragmatics (01-01-2021)“…Theories of clause selection that aim to explain the distribution of interrogative and declarative complement clauses often take as a starting point that…”
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Lexicalization in the developing parser
Published in Glossa psycholinguistics (Oakland, Calif.) (30-03-2022)“…We use children's noun learning as a probe into the nature of their syntactic prediction mechanism and the statistical knowledge on which that prediction…”
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Decomposing and Recomposing Event Structure
Published in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (28-01-2022)“…We present an event structure classification empirically derived from inferential properties annotated on sentence- and document-level Universal…”
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Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax
Published in Language acquisition (02-01-2022)“…Attitude verbs like think and want describe mental states (belief and desire) that lack reliable physical correlates that could help children learn their…”
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Decomposing Generalization: Models of Generic, Habitual, and Episodic Statements
Published in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (01-01-2019)“…We present a novel semantic framework for modeling linguistic expressions of generalization— , , and —as combinations of simple, real-valued referential…”
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Small Models Are (Still) Effective Cross-Domain Argument Extractors
Published 12-04-2024“…Effective ontology transfer has been a major goal of recent work on event argument extraction (EAE). Two methods in particular -- question answering (QA) and…”
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Event-Keyed Summarization
Published 10-02-2024“…We introduce event-keyed summarization (EKS), a novel task that marries traditional summarization and document-level event extraction, with the goal of…”
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Information and incrementality in syntactic bootstrapping
Published 2015“…Some words are harder to learn than others. For instance, action verbs like "run" and "hit" are learned earlier than propositional attitude verbs like "think"…”
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Frequency, Acceptability, and Selection: A case study of clause-embedding
Published 08-04-2020“…We investigate the relationship between the frequency with which verbs are found in particular subcategorization frames and the acceptability of those verbs in…”
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Decomposing and Recomposing Event Structure
Published 18-03-2021“…We present an event structure classification empirically derived from inferential properties annotated on sentence- and document-level Universal…”
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Natural Language Inference with Mixed Effects
Published 20-10-2020“…The Ninth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM2020) There is growing evidence that the prevalence of disagreement in the raw…”
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Montague Grammar Induction
Published 15-10-2020“…We propose a computational modeling framework for inducing combinatory categorial grammars from arbitrary behavioral data. This framework provides the analyst…”
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A Framework for Decoding Event-Related Potentials from Text
Published 26-02-2019“…We propose a novel framework for modeling event-related potentials (ERPs) collected during reading that couples pre-trained convolutional decoders with a…”
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Cross-Document Event-Keyed Summarization
Published 18-10-2024“…Event-keyed summarization (EKS) requires generating a summary about a specific event described in a document, given the document and an event representation…”
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FAMuS: Frames Across Multiple Sources
Published 09-11-2023“…Understanding event descriptions is a central aspect of language processing, but current approaches focus overwhelmingly on single sentences or documents…”
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A Unified View of Evaluation Metrics for Structured Prediction
Published 20-10-2023“…We present a conceptual framework that unifies a variety of evaluation metrics for different structured prediction tasks (e.g. event and relation extraction,…”
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MultiMUC: Multilingual Template Filling on MUC-4
Published 29-01-2024“…We introduce MultiMUC, the first multilingual parallel corpus for template filling, comprising translations of the classic MUC-4 template filling benchmark…”
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