Shane Steinert‐Threlkeld
3 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus
Papers by this author
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Complexity/informativeness trade-off in the domain of indefinite pronouns
2021 · Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory
The vocabulary of human languages has been argued to support efficient communication by optimizing the trade-off between complexity and informativeness (Kemp & Regier 2012). The argument has been based on cross-linguistic analyses of vocabulary in …
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Bilingual alignment transfers to multilingual alignment for unsupervised parallel text mining
2022 · Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
This work presents methods for learning crosslingual sentence representations using paired or unpaired bilingual texts. We hypothesize that the cross-lingual alignment strategy is transferable, and therefore a model trained to align only two languages can …
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Filtered Corpus Training (FiCT) Shows that Language Models can Generalize from Indirect Evidence
2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)
This paper introduces Filtered Corpus Training, a method that trains language models (LMs) on corpora with certain linguistic constructions filtered out from the training data, and uses it to measure the ability of LMs to …