publications
Selected publications of NALA members (since 2020).
2023
- A Comparative Analysis of Automatic Speech Recognition Errors in Small Group Classroom DiscourseIn Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2023
- Navigating Wanderland: Highlighting Off-Task Discussions in ClassroomsIn Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
- Meeting the Needs of Low-Resource Languages: Exploring Automatic Alignments via Pretrained ModelsIn Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
2022
- AmericasNLI: Machine translation and natural language inference systems for Indigenous languages of the AmericasFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence 2022
- A Major Obstacle for NLP Research: Let’s Talk about Time Allocation!In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022
- A Comprehensive Comparison of Neural Networks as Cognitive Models of InflectionIn Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022
- CHIA: CHoosing Instances to Annotate for Machine TranslationIn Findings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022
- Generate Me a Bedtime Story: Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Early Vocabulary EnhancementIn Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact, 2022
- Machine Translation Between High-resource Languages in a Language Documentation SettingIn Proceedings of the First Workshop on Applying NLP to Field Linguistics, 2022
- Response Construct Tagging: NLP-Aided Assessment for Engineering EducationIn Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2022
- Open-domain Dialogue Generation: What We Can Do, Cannot Do, And Should Do NextIn Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI, 2022
- AmericasNLI: Evaluating Zero-shot Natural Language Understanding of Pretrained Multilingual Models in Truly Low-resource LanguagesIn Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
- How Does Multilingual Pretraining Affect Cross-Lingual Transferability?In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
- BPE vs. Morphological Segmentation: A Case Study on Machine Translation of Four Polysynthetic LanguagesIn Findings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
2021
- The World of an Octopus: How Reporting Bias Influences a Language Model’s Perception of ColorIn Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021
- What Would a Teacher Do? Predicting Future Talk MovesIn Findings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
- PROST: Physical Reasoning of Objects through Space and TimeIn Findings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
- How to Adapt Your Pretrained Multilingual Model to 1600 LanguagesIn Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
- Don’t Rule Out Monolingual Speakers: A Method For Crowdsourcing Machine Translation DataIn Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
- Findings of the LoResMT 2021 Shared Task on COVID and Sign Language for Low-resource LanguagesIn Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021), 2021
- Paradigm Clustering with Weighted Edit DistanceIn Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 2021
- Findings of the SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm ClusteringIn Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 2021
- Findings of the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation for Indigenous Languages of the AmericasIn Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 2021
- Coloring the Black Box: What Synesthesia Tells Us about Character EmbeddingsIn Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
- CLiMP: A Benchmark for Chinese Language Model EvaluationIn Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
2020
- Making a Point: Pointer-Generator Transformers for Disjoint VocabulariesIn Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing Student Research Workshop, 2020Best Paper Award
- English Intermediate-Task Training Improves Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer TooIn Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2020
- Tackling the Low-resource Challenge for Canonical SegmentationIn Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020
- Acrostic Poem GenerationIn Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020
- IGT2P: From Interlinear Glossed Texts to ParadigmsIn Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020
- Why Overfitting Isn’t Always Bad: Retrofitting Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings to DictionariesIn Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
- The SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task on Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm CompletionIn Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 2020
- Frustratingly Easy Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme ConversionIn Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 2020
- The NYU-CUBoulder Systems for SIGMORPHON 2020 Task 0 and Task 2In Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 2020
- The IMS–CUBoulder System for the SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task on Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm CompletionIn Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 2020
- Self-Training for Unsupervised Parsing with PRPNIn Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parsing Technologies and the IWPT 2020 Shared Task on Parsing into Enhanced Universal Dependencies, 2020
- Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning with Pretrained Language Models: When and Why Does It Work?In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
- Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm CompletionIn Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
- Learning to Learn Morphological Inflection for Resource-Poor LanguagesIn Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
- Weakly Supervised POS Taggers Perform Poorly on Truly Low-Resource LanguagesIn Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
- Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology in Artificial Neural Networks With Prior KnowledgeIn Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, 2020