Cui Ding — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

ConLoan: A Contrastive Multilingual Dataset for Evaluating Loanwords

Sina Ahmadi, Micha David Hess, Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Alessia Battisti, Cui Ding, Anne Göhring +10

ACL 2025long

Lexical borrowing, the adoption of words from one language into another, is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon influenced by geopolitical, societal, and technological factors. This paper introduces ConLoan–a novel contrastive dataset comprising sentences with and without loanwords across 10 language…

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2025

Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent

Ethan Wilcox, Cui Ding, Giovanni Acampa, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I Regev

ACL 2025long

This paper argues that the relationship between lexical identity and prosody—one well-studied parameter of linguistic variation—can be characterized using information theory. We predict that languages that use prosody to make lexical distinctions should exhibit a higher mutual information between wo…

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