Papers by Michaela Socolof
Characterizing Idioms: Conventionality and Contingency (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | idioms have non-canonical meanings, but non-conventional meanings are contingent on other words . a recent study shows that idiomatic expressions are not homogeneous among idiomas . |
| Approach: | They propose to use a contingency relationship between words in an idiom and non-canonical meanings of words in the idiome. |
| Outcome: | a new study shows that idioms fall at the expected intersection of the two dimensions, but that the dimensions themselves are not correlated. |
Measuring Morphological Fusion Using Partial Information Decomposition (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | agglutinative and fusional languages have a systematic relationship between meaning and form, but are less systematic when it comes to morphological relations. |
| Approach: | They propose a mathematically precise way of characterizing morphological systems using partial information decomposition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework decomposes mutual information into three components: unique, redundant, and synergistic information. |