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Sidsel Boldsen

2 accepted papers

2022

Interpreting Character Embeddings With Perceptual Representations: The Case of Shape, Sound, and Color

ACL 2022long

Character-level information is included in many NLP models, but evaluating the information encoded in character representations is an open issue. We leverage perceptual representations in the form of shape, sound, and color embeddings and perform a representational similarity analysis to evaluate th…

2022

Letters From the Past: Modeling Historical Sound Change Through Diachronic Character Embeddings

ACL 2022long

While a great deal of work has been done on NLP approaches to lexical semantic change detection, other aspects of language change have received less attention from the NLP community. In this paper, we address the detection of sound change through historical spelling. We propose that a sound change c…