Michaela Socolof — accepted AI-conference papers

2022

Characterizing Idioms: Conventionality and Contingency

Michaela Socolof, Jackie Cheung, Michael Wagner, Timothy O’Donnell

ACL 2022long

Idioms are unlike most phrases in two important ways. First, words in an idiom have non-canonical meanings. Second, the non-canonical meanings of words in an idiom are contingent on the presence of other words in the idiom. Linguistic theories differ on whether these properties depend on one another…

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2022

Measuring Morphological Fusion Using Partial Information Decomposition

Michaela Socolof, Jacob Louis Hoover, Richard Futrell, Alessandro Sordoni, Timothy J. O’Donnell

COLING 2022main

Morphological systems across languages vary when it comes to the relation between form and meaning. In some languages, a single meaning feature corresponds to a single morpheme, whereas in other languages, multiple meaning features are bundled together into one morpheme. The two types of languages h…

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