Papers by Eitan Grossman
Locally Measuring Cross-lingual Lexical Alignment: A Domain and Word Level Perspective (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a cognitive science research focus on aligning language spaces in their entirety . but, cognitive science has long focused on a local perspective . a new method for cross-lingual lexical alignment requires some methodology . |
| Approach: | They propose a method for analyzing kinship domain kinematics and a new method for contextualization . they propose kin-level validations and contextualizations to validate the results . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method analyzes synthetic validations and naturalistic validations using lexical gaps in the kinship domain. |
SegBo: A Database of Borrowed Sounds in the World’s Languages (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | phonological segment borrowing is a process through which languages acquire new contrastive speech sounds as the result of borrowing words from other languages. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a database to aggregate borrowed phonological segments from languages to create a new contrastive sound. |
| Outcome: | The proposed database is based on a cross-linguistic database of borrowed phonological segments. |
Coming to Your Senses: on Controls and Evaluation Sets in Polysemy Research (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | a prior art claim that sense-specific vectors provide an advantage over normal vectors is unfounded in two ways. |
| Approach: | They claim that sense-specific vectors provide an advantage over normal vectors due to the polysemy that they presumably represent. |
| Outcome: | The proposed results show that ground-truth polysemy degrades performance in word similarity tasks and that random assignment of words to senses improves performance. |