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Timothy J. O’Donnell

3 accepted papers

2025

Information Locality as an Inductive Bias for Neural Language Models

ACL 2025long

Inductive biases are inherent in every machine learning system, shaping how models generalize from finite data. In the case of neural language models (LMs), debates persist as to whether these biases align with or diverge from human processing constraints. To address this issue, we propose a quantit…

2022

Measuring Morphological Fusion Using Partial Information Decomposition

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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2021

Linguistic Dependencies and Statistical Dependence

EMNLP 2021main

Are pairs of words that tend to occur together also likely to stand in a linguistic dependency? This empirical question is motivated by a long history of literature in cognitive science, psycholinguistics, and NLP. In this work we contribute an extensive analysis of the relationship between linguist…