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View article: Is there a superlative rabbit in the ordinal hat? A study of ordinals vs. degree modifiers in nested definites
Is there a superlative rabbit in the ordinal hat? A study of ordinals vs. degree modifiers in nested definites Open
This study probes how the semantics of ordinals relates to the semantics of comparatives and superlatives. We examine this question with the help of a picture task in which participants are asked to locate objects described by nested descr…
View article: Do they mean 'us'? Interpreting Referring Expressions in Intergroup Bias
Do they mean 'us'? Interpreting Referring Expressions in Intergroup Bias Open
The variations between in-group and out-group speech (intergroup bias) are subtle and could underlie many social phenomena like stereotype perpetuation and implicit bias. In this paper, we model the intergroup bias as a tagging task on Eng…
View article: Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias
Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias Open
While existing work on studying bias in NLP focues on negative or pejorative language use, Govindarajan et al. (2023) offer a revised framing of bias in terms of intergroup social context, and its effects on language behavior. In this pape…
View article: Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias
Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias Open
While existing work on studying bias in NLP focues on negative or pejorative language use, Govindarajan et al. (2023) offer a revised framing of bias in terms of intergroup social context, and its effects on language behavior. In this pape…
View article: How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion
How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion Open
Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, Katherine Atwell, Barea Sinno, Malihe Alikhani, David I. Beaver, Junyi Jessy Li. Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2023.
View article: How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion
How people talk about each other: Modeling Generalized Intergroup Bias and Emotion Open
Current studies of bias in NLP rely mainly on identifying (unwanted or negative) bias towards a specific demographic group. While this has led to progress recognizing and mitigating negative bias, and having a clear notion of the targeted …
View article: It's Not What You Expected! The Surprising Nature of Cleft Alternatives in French and English
It's Not What You Expected! The Surprising Nature of Cleft Alternatives in French and English Open
While much prior literature on the meaning of clefts-such as the English form "it is X who Z-ed"-concentrates on the nature and status of the exhaustivity inference ("nobody/nothing other than X Z"), we report on experiments examining the …
View article: How Projective is Projective Content? Gradience in Projectivity and At-issueness
How Projective is Projective Content? Gradience in Projectivity and At-issueness Open
Projective content is utterance content that a speaker may be taken to be committed to even when the expression associated with the content occurs embedded under an entailment-canceling operator (e.g., Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet, 1990). I…
View article: Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field
Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field Open
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification…
View article: The Best Question: Explaining the Projection Behavior of Factives
The Best Question: Explaining the Projection Behavior of Factives Open
This article deals with projection in factive sentences. The article first challenges standard assumptions by presenting a series of detailed observations about the interpretations of factive sentences in context, showing that what implica…