dialectR: Doing Dialectometry in R

no code implementations • VarDial (COLING) 2022 • Ryan Soh-Eun Shim, John Nerbonne

We present dialectR, an open-source R package for performing quantitative analyses of dialects based on categorical measures of difference and on variants of edit distance.

Clustering

SIGMORPHON 2022 Task 0 Submission Description: Modelling Morphological Inflection with Data-Driven and Rule-Based Approaches

no code implementations • NAACL (SIGMORPHON) 2022 • Tatiana Merzhevich, Nkonye Gbadegoye, Leander Girrbach, Jingwen Li, Ryan Soh-Eun Shim

This paper describes our participation in the 2022 SIGMORPHON-UniMorph Shared Task on Typologically Diverse and AcquisitionInspired Morphological Inflection Generation.

Decoder Morphological Inflection

Phonotactic Complexity across Dialects

no code implementations • 20 Feb 2024 • Ryan Soh-Eun Shim, Kalvin Chang, David R. Mortensen

Received wisdom in linguistic typology holds that if the structure of a language becomes more complex in one dimension, it will simplify in another, building on the assumption that all languages are equally complex (Joseph and Newmeyer, 2012).

Language Modelling