August 02, 2019 ✻ Florence, Italy

The workshop program is available → here .


Keynote Speakers

Emily Bender
Emily M. Bender
Jason Eisner
Jason Eisner
Balthasar Bickel
Balthasar Bickel
Sabine Stoll
Sabine Stoll
Isabelle Augenstein
Isabelle Augenstein

Emily Bender's slides: The Grammar Matrix and AGGREGATION: Knowledge-Rich NLP for Endangered and Low Resource Languages

Jason Eisner’s slides: Synthetic Data and Synthetic Languages

Balthasar Bickel’s slides: Cross-Linguistic Corpora Reveal Constraints on Language Dynamics

Sabine Stoll’s slides: There are Patterns in Child-Directed Speech that Make First Language Learning Possible

Isabelle Augenstein’s slides: What Can Typological Knowledge Bases and Language Representations Tell Us About Linguistic Properties



Accepted Abstracts

CONTEXTUALIZATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL INFLECTION
Ekaterina Vylomova, Ryan Cotterell, Timothy Baldwin, Trevor Cohn and Jason Eisner
[poster]

CROSS-LINGUAL CCG INDUCTION: LEARNING CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS VIA PARALLEL CORPORA
Kilian Evang
[poster]

CROSS-LINGUISTIC ROBUSTNESS OF INFANT WORD SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS: OVERSEGMENTING MORPHOLOGICALLY COMPLEX LANGUAGES
Georgia R. Loukatou

CROSS-LINGUISTIC SEMANTIC TAGSET FOR CASE RELATIONSHIPS
Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri and Atul Kr. Ojha

DISSECTING TREEBANKS TO UNCOVER TYPOLOGICAL TRENDS. A MULTILINGUAL COMPARATIVE APPROACH
Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell’Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni and Giulia Venturi
[poster]

FEATURE COMPARISON ACROSS TYPOLOGICAL RESOURCES
Tifa de Almeida, Youyun Zhang, Kristen Howell and Emily M. Bender

POLYGLOT PARSING FOR ONE THOUSAND AND ONE LANGUAGES (AND THEN SOME)
Ali Basirat, Miryam de Lhoneux, Artur Kulmizev, Murathan Kurfalı, Joakim Nivre and Robert Östling
[poster]

PREDICTING CONTINUOUS VOWEL SPACES IN THE WILDERNESS
Emily Ahn and David R. Mortensen
[poster]

SYNTACTIC TYPOLOGY FROM PLAIN TEXT USING LANGUAGE EMBEDDINGS
Taiqi He and Kenji Sagae
[poster]

TOWARDS A COMPUTATIONALLY RELEVANT TYPOLOGY FOR POLYGLOT/MULTILINGUAL NLP
Ada Wan

TOWARDS A MULTI-VIEW LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION: A SHARED SPACE OF DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS LANGUAGE FEATURES
Arturo Oncevay, Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch
[poster]

TRANSFER LEARNING FOR COGNATE IDENTIFICATION IN LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGES
Eliel Soisalon-Soininen and Mark Granroth-Wilding
[poster]

TYPOLOGICAL FEATURE PREDICTION WITH MATRIX COMPLETION
Annebeth Buis and Mans Hulden
[poster]

UNSUPERVISED DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION IN LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGES FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
Nidhi Vyas, Eduard Hovy and Dheeraj Rajagopal

USING TYPOLOGICAL INFORMATION IN WALS TO IMPROVE GRAMMAR INFERENCE
Youyun Zhang, Tifa de Almeida, Kristen Howell and Emily M. Bender
[poster]

WHAT DO MULTILINGUAL NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION MODELS LEARN ABOUT TYPOLOGY?
Ryokan Ri and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
[poster]




Organizers

    Haim Dubossarsky     Arya D. McCarthy
    Edoardo M. Ponti     Ivan Vulić
    Ekaterina Vylomova     Yevgeni Berzak
    Ryan Cotterell     Eitan Grossman
    Anna Korhonen     Roi Reichart




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