Search Results for author: Elizabeth Nielsen

Found 5 papers, 1 papers with code

Spelling convention sensitivity in neural language models

no code implementations6 Mar 2023 Elizabeth Nielsen, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark

Using a set of probe words unique to either British or American English, we first establish that training corpora exhibit substantial (though not total) consistency.

Language Modelling

Prosodic features improve sentence segmentation and parsing

1 code implementation23 Feb 2023 Elizabeth Nielsen, Sharon Goldwater, Mark Steedman

Parsing spoken dialogue presents challenges that parsing text does not, including a lack of clear sentence boundaries.

Sentence Sentence segmentation

Zero-shot Cross-Linguistic Learning of Event Semantics

no code implementations5 Jul 2022 Malihe Alikhani, Thomas Kober, Bashar Alhafni, Yue Chen, Mert Inan, Elizabeth Nielsen, Shahab Raji, Mark Steedman, Matthew Stone

Typologically diverse languages offer systems of lexical and grammatical aspect that allow speakers to focus on facets of event structure in ways that comport with the specific communicative setting and discourse constraints they face.

Prosodic segmentation for parsing spoken dialogue

no code implementations ACL 2021 Elizabeth Nielsen, Mark Steedman, Sharon Goldwater

We investigate how prosody affects a parser that receives an entire dialogue turn as input (a turn-based model), instead of gold standard pre-segmented SUs (an SU-based model).

Segmentation Sentence

The role of context in neural pitch accent detection in English

no code implementations EMNLP 2020 Elizabeth Nielsen, Mark Steedman, Sharon Goldwater

We find that these innovations lead to an improvement from 87. 5% to 88. 7% accuracy on pitch accent detection on American English speech in the Boston University Radio News Corpus, a state-of-the-art result.

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