Papers by Nina Gregorio
The Cross-linguistic Role of Animacy in Grammar Structures (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Animacy is a semantic feature of nominals and follows a hierarchy of personal pronouns . it is argued that soft tendencies may be the cause of animacy constraints . however, there is no empirical evidence for this . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to reliably classify animacy classes of nominals in 11 languages from 5 families using multilingual large language models and word sense disambiguation datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows that animacy displays consistent cross-linguistic tendencies in terms of preferred morphosyntactic constructions, but not always in line with received wisdom. |