Papers by Raphaël Bailly
Emergence of Syntax Needs Minimal Supervision (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Syntax is the essence of human linguistic capacity that makes it possible to produce and understand unheard sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a corpus to define and isolate grammaticality and meaning/pragmatics information without explicit syntax-specific guidance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can search for syntax-based lexical categories without prior hypothesis on the form of the model. |
Syntax and Geometry of Information (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a new information-theoretical model of syntactic generalization is proposed . abstract optimization is a relaxation of the property of independence . |
| Approach: | They propose to model syntactic generalization from the perspective of the capacity to disentangle semantic and structural information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms other methods on the task of inducing syntactic categories from natural language data. |