Katherine Demuth
Katherine Demuth has 2 papers in our library, in 2013–2024, most of them on Hebrew & Aramaic, Semitic languages, Psycholinguistics & language acquisition; often with Mark Johnson, Benjamin Börschinger, Louis Mahon.
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📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 6 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9372
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📚 Shelves 7The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksPsychology · 2 worksExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work
🧭 Topics 6Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 1 workTokenization & segmentation · 1 workHebrew & Aramaic · 1 workModern Hebrew · 1 workPsycholinguistics & language acquisition · 1 workSemitic languages · 1 work
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- A joint model of word segmentation and phonological variation for English word-final /t/-deletion (2013 · 13 citations)
Most unsupervised word segmentation models assume every occurrence of a word is pronounced identically. Real speech does not behave this way. The authors target one well-studied case of variation: English word-final /t/-deletion, as when "west" is spoken as [wEs]. They extend the Bayesian Unigram and Bigram… - A Language-agnostic Model of Child Language Acquisition (2024 · 3 citations)
The authors port Abend et al.'s semantic-bootstrapping learner from English to Hebrew. The learner sees one child-directed utterance at a time, paired with a logical form, and learns a CCG lexicon with EM over Dirichlet-process counts. The Hebrew data are from the CHILDES Hagar corpus (3,295 utterances), converted…
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- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 2013
- Computer Speech & Language: Computer Speech & Language 2024
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