Maribel Romero


2023

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A Crosslinguistic Database for Combinatorial and Semantic Properties of Attitude Predicates
Deniz Özyıldız | Ciyang Qing | Floris Roelofsen | Maribel Romero | Wataru Uegaki
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP

We introduce a cross-linguistic database for attitude predicates, which references their combinatorial (syntactic) and semantic properties. Our data allows assessment of cross-linguistic generalizations about attitude predicates as well as discovery of new typological/cross-linguistic patterns. This paper motivates empirical and theoretical issues that our database will help to address, the sample predicates and the properties that it references, as well as our design and methodological choices. Two case studies illustrate how the database can be used to assess validity of cross-linguistic generalizations.

2022

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Negation, Coordination, and Quantifiers in Contextualized Language Models
Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli | Rita Sevastjanova | Christin Beck | Maribel Romero
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

With the success of contextualized language models, much research explores what these models really learn and in which cases they still fail. Most of this work focuses on specific NLP tasks and on the learning outcome. Little research has attempted to decouple the models’ weaknesses from specific tasks and focus on the embeddings per se and their mode of learning. In this paper, we take up this research opportunity: based on theoretical linguistic insights, we explore whether the semantic constraints of function words are learned and how the surrounding context impacts their embeddings. We create suitable datasets, provide new insights into the inner workings of LMs vis-a-vis function words and implement an assisting visual web interface for qualitative analysis.

2010

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Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+10)
Srinivas Bangalore | Robert Frank | Maribel Romero
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+10)

2006

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Quantifier Scope in German: An MCTAG Analysis
Laura Kallmeyer | Maribel Romero
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms

2004

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LTAG Semantics with Semantic Unification
Laura Kallmeyer | Maribel Romero
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms

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LTAG Semantics for Questions
Maribel Romero | Laura Kallmeyer | Olga Babko-Malaya
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms

2002

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Quantification Over Situation Variables in LTAG: Some Constraints
Maribel Romero
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Frameworks (TAG+6)