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Matthew Lamm

3 paper cards in the Research library · 2017–2021

Matthew Lamm wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2017–2021, most of them on Discourse analysis, Coreference resolution, Universal Dependencies; often with Anders Søgaard, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Hardt.

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Topics: Discourse analysis 1 · Coreference resolution 1 · Universal Dependencies 1

Papers

  1. Ellipsis Resolution as Question Answering: An Evaluation (2021)
    The paper treats ellipsis resolution as a reading-comprehension problem. The elided clause becomes a question, and the antecedent becomes the answer span in the preceding text. The authors train BERT-based models on sluice ellipsis and VP ellipsis, first alone and then jointly with question-answering and coreference…
  2. Gapping Constructions in Universal Dependencies v2 (2017)
    This is a design paper rather than an experiment. It asks how gapping (the omission of a repeated verb, as in "John likes tea, and Mary coffee") should be represented in UD v2. The authors survey the cross-linguistic patterns of gapping, including languages where the overt verb sits in the last conjunct, and compare…
  3. The Pragmatics of Indirect Commands in Collaborative Discourse (2017)
    In the Cards corpus (1,266 transcripts of a two-player game: collect six consecutive cards of one suit, hold at most three each) the authors study commands that name neither an action nor an agent: locative statements such as «there is a 5h in the very top left corner», after which the partner goes and picks the card…

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