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On Homophony and Rényi Entropy ...
Abstract: Homophony's widespread presence in natural languages is a controversial topic. Recent theories of language optimality have tried to justify its prevalence, despite its negative effects on cognitive processing time; e.g., Piantadosi et al. (2012) argued homophony enables the reuse of efficient wordforms and is thus beneficial for languages. This hypothesis has recently been challenged by Trott and Bergen (2020), who posit that good wordforms are more often homophonous simply because they are more phonotactically probable. In this paper, we join in on the debate. We first propose a new information-theoretic quantification of a language's homophony: the sample Rényi entropy. Then, we use this quantification to revisit Trott and Bergen's claims. While their point is theoretically sound, a specific methodological issue in their experiments raises doubts about their results. After addressing this issue, we find no clear pressure either towards or against homophony -- a much more nuanced result than either ... : Accepted for publication in EMNLP 2021. Code available in https://github.com/rycolab/homophony-as-renyi-entropy ...
Keyword: Computation and Language cs.CL; FOS Computer and information sciences
URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13766
https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2109.13766
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Towards Zero-shot Language Modeling ...
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Differentiable Generative Phonology ...
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Finding Concept-specific Biases in Form--Meaning Associations ...
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Quantifying Gender Bias Towards Politicians in Cross-Lingual Language Models ...
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Probing as Quantifying Inductive Bias ...
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How (Non-)Optimal is the Lexicon? ...
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Disambiguatory Signals are Stronger in Word-initial Positions ...
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A Cognitive Regularizer for Language Modeling ...
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Do Syntactic Probes Probe Syntax? Experiments with Jabberwocky Probing ...
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On the Relationships Between the Grammatical Genders of Inanimate Nouns and Their Co-Occurring Adjectives and Verbs ...
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Investigating Cross-Linguistic Adjective Ordering Tendencies with a Latent-Variable Model ...
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SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task 0: Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection ...
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Intrinsic Probing through Dimension Selection ...
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SIGTYP 2020 Shared Task: Prediction of Typological Features ...
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Information-Theoretic Probing for Linguistic Structure ...
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A Corpus for Large-Scale Phonetic Typology ...
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Morphologically Aware Word-Level Translation ...
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Predicting Declension Class from Form and Meaning ...
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Predicting declension class from form and meaning
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