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Mikael Brunila

2 accepted papers

2023

Toward a Critical Toponymy Framework for Named Entity Recognition: A Case Study of Airbnb in New York City

EMNLP 2023long main

Critical toponymy examines the dynamics of power, capital, and resistance through place names and the sites to which they refer. Studies here have traditionally focused on the semantic content of toponyms and the top-down institutional processes that produce them. However, they have generally ignore…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

What company do words keep? Revisiting the distributional semantics of J.R. Firth & Zellig Harris

NAACL 2022long

The power of word embeddings is attributed to the linguistic theory that similar words will appear in similar contexts. This idea is specifically invoked by noting that “you shall know a word by the company it keeps,” a quote from British linguist J.R. Firth who, along with his American colleague Ze…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar