1 code implementation • EMNLP (NLP+CSS) 2020 • Aleksandrs Berdicevskis
I test two hypotheses that play an important role in modern sociolinguistics and language evolution studies: first, that non-native production is simpler than native; second, that production addressed to non-native speakers is simpler than that addressed to natives.
1 code implementation • UDW (COLING) 2020 • Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Alexander Piperski
We use Universal Dependencies treebanks to test whether a well-known typological trade-off between word order freedom and richness of morphological marking of core arguments holds within individual languages.
1 code implementation • NoDaLiDa 2021 • Yvonne Adesam, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis
We train and test five open-source taggers, which use different methods, on three Swedish corpora, which are of comparable size but use different tagsets.
no code implementations • CONLL 2020 • Hartger Veeman, Marc Allassonni{\`e}re-Tang, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Ali Basirat
In both experiments, we predict the gender of nouns in language X using a classifier trained on the nouns of language Y, and take the classifier{'}s accuracy as a measure of transferability of gender systems.