Papers by Rhea Kapur
When More Words Say Less: Decoupling Length and Specificity in Image Description Evaluation (2026.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Vision-language models are increasingly used to produce textual descriptions of visual content. |
| Approach: | They propose to disentangle description specificity from description length . they find people prefer more specific descriptions regardless of length based on their own subjective preferences . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that people prefer more specific descriptions regardless of length. |
Modeling language evolution and feature dynamics in a realistic geographic environment (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | a number of studies have examined the stability or biases of typological features within language families . |
| Approach: | They propose a model for simulating languages and their features over time in a realistic geographic environment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is flexible and realistic, and can be used to answer questions. |