Publications

Recent peer-reviewed

• 2023. Morpheme combinatorics of compound words through Box Embeddings. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2023 meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
• 2023. Gradient Symbolic Computation can account for A'ingae verbal stress patterns. to appear in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology, October 23rd, 2022.
• 2022. Modeling human-like morphological prediction Proceedings of the 2022 meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
• 2022 (with second author Matthew Goldrick) Interaction of lexical strata in hybrid compound words through gradient phonotactics. Supplemental Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology, Toronto. 2021.
• 2021. Inflectional paradigms as interacting systems. Proceedings of the 2021 meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
• 2021. Lexical strata and phonotactic perplexity minimization. Supplemental proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology, UC Santa Cruz, September 2020. Also presented as a poster and extended abstract at the 2021 meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
• 2021. Emergent Gestural Scores in a Recurrent Neural Network Model of Vowel Harmony. Caitlin Smith, Charlie O'Hara Paul Smolensky and Eric Rosen. Proceedings of the 2021 meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
• 2021. Compositional semantics emerges in neural networks solving math problems (Jacob Russin, Roland Fernandez, Hamid Palangi, Eric Rosen, Nebojsa Jojic, Paul Smolensky and Jianfeng Gao) To be presented at COGSCI 2021.
2021. Structural Biases for Improving Transformers on Translation into Morphologically Rich Languages. Paul Soulos, Sudha Rao, Caitlin Smith, Eric Rosen, Asli Celikyilmaz, R. Thomas McCoy, Yichen Jiang, Coleman Haley, Roland Fernandez, Hamid Palangi, Jianfeng Gao, Paul Smolensky. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021), 2021.
• 2019. Learning a model of gradient French liaison (with Paul Smolensky and Matthew Goldrick). Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology, Stony Brook University, October 2019.
• 2019. Predicting surface forms in complex inflectional paradigms through phonological constraints. Supplemental proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology, Stony Brook University, October 2019.
• 2019. Learning complex inflectional paradigms through blended gradient inputs. Proceedings of the 2019 meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, January 2019, NYU.
• 2018. Weak elements make strong predictions: Evidence for gradient input features from Sino-Japanese compound accent. Supplemental proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology. October 5-7, 2018. UC San Diego.
• 2017. Predicting semi-regular patterns in morphologically complex words (An analysis of the semi-regularity of pitch accent in Japanese compound words) Linguistics Vanguard, 4(1). ROA 1339. http://roa.rutgers.edu/article/view/1729
• 2016. Predicting the unpredictable: capturing the apparent semi-regularity of rendaku voicing in Japanese through harmonic grammar. In proceedings of the 42nd annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, February 5-7, 2016. ROA 1299.

Presentations

• 2021. Human-like morphological prediction through implicative relations. Presented at the American International Morphology Meeting, August 26-29, 2021.
• 2018. Efficient representation of inflectional paradigms through harmonic grammar. Poster presented at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning, University of Maryland, May 2018.
• 2017. Predicting semi-regular Japanese accent patterns through gradient strengths of inputs. Presented at the workshop ``Strength in Grammar'', University of Leipzig, November 10-12 2017.
• 2016. Japanese pitch accent as a dynamic computational system: global effects through strictly local interactions. Conference paper presented at the Montreal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto Phonology Workshop, Carleton University, Ottawa, March 19, 2016.

Technical Reports

• 2017. Geometrical Morphology Technical report on morphological paradigms in a new framework based on vectors in high-dimensional space. Work in equal joint collaboration with John Goldsmith, University of Chicago.

Research, talks and articles prior to 2016

• 2008. Japanese Loanword Accentuation: Epenthesis and Foot Form Interacting through Edge-Interior Alignment, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nov. 7-9, 2008.
• 2008. Deriving the accentual behaviour of Japanese suffixes: a new OT account. Invited talk given at the Third Joint Meeting of the Kansai and Tokyo Phonology Research Groups (PAIK and TCP), February 21-22, 2008, Atami, Japan.
• 2008. Review of “Voicing in Japanese”, van de Weijer, Jeroen, Kensuke Nanjo, and Tetsuo Nishihara, eds., Mouton de Gruyter. Berlin. The Phonetician 97: 144-149. 2008.
• 2003.Systematic irregularity in Japanese rendaku: How the grammar mediates patterned lexical exceptions. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 48. 2003.