Incremental semantic restriction and subjectivity-based adjective ordering

Scontras, Gregory; Bar-Sever, Galia; Kachakeche, Zeinab; Rosales, Cesar Manuel; Samonte, Suttera

doi:10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.896

Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 2020

DOI: 10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.896

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Incremental semantic restriction and subjectivity-based adjective ordering

Gregory Scontras¹,

Galia Bar-Sever²,

Zeinab Kachakeche³

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What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks

Futrell

Dyer

Scontras

2020

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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We take up the scientific question of what determines the preferred order of adjectives in English, in phrases such as big blue box where multiple adjectives modify a following noun. We implement and test four quantitative theories, all of which are theoretically motivated in terms of efficiency in human language production and comprehension. The four theories we test are subjectivity (Scontras et al., 2017), information locality (Futrell, 2019), integration cost (Dyer, 2017), and information gain, which we introduce. We evaluate theories based on their ability to predict orders of unseen adjectives in hand-parsed and automatically-parsed dependency treebanks. We find that subjectivity, information locality, and information gain are all strong predictors, with some evidence for a two-factor account, where subjectivity and information gain reflect a factor involving semantics, and information locality reflects collocational preferences.

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What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks

Futrell

Dyer

Scontras

2020

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain

Dyer¹,

Futrell²,

Liu³

et al. 2021

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

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Languages vary in their placement of multiple adjectives before, after, or surrounding the noun, but they typically exhibit strong intralanguage tendencies on the relative order of those adjectives (e.g., the preference for 'big blue box' in English, 'grande boîte bleue' in French, and 'als . undūq al'azraq alkabīr' in Arabic). We advance a new quantitative account of adjective order across typologically-distinct languages based on maximizing information gain. Our model addresses the left-right asymmetry of French-type ANA sequences with the same approach as AAN and NAA orderings, without appeal to other mechanisms. We find that, across 32 languages, the preferred order of adjectives mirrors an efficient algorithm of maximizing information gain.

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Incremental semantic restriction and subjectivity-based adjective ordering

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What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks

What determines the order of adjectives in English? Comparing efficiency-based theories using dependency treebanks

Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain

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