一作ACL 2026OralOutstanding Paper· Natural Language Processing
Systematicity between Forms and Meanings across Languages Supports Efficient Communication
Doreen Osmelak · Yang Xu · Michael Hahn · Kate McCurdy
摘要
Languages vary widely in how meanings map to word forms. These mappings have been found to support efficient communication; however, this theory does not account for systematic relations within word forms. We examine how a restricted set of grammatical meanings (e.g. person, number) are expressed...