Publications

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2022	How Well Do LSTM Language Models Learn Filler-gap Dependencies?. Satoru Ozaki, Dan Yurovsky, and Lori Levin. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.
2021	East Tusom: A phonetic and phonological sketch of a largely undocumented Tangkhulic language. David R. Mortensen and Jordan Picone. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 44(2).
2020	Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling. Lane Schwartz, Francis Tyers, Lori Levin, Christo Kirov, Patrick Littell, Chi-kiu Lo, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Hyunji Hayley Park, Kenneth Steimel, Rebecca Knowles, Jeffrey Micher, Lonny Strunk, Han Liu, Coleman Haley, Katherine J. Zhang, Robbie Jimmerson, Vasilisa Andriyanets, Aldrian Obaja Muis, Naoki Otani, Jong Hyuk Park, and Zhisong Zhang. Technical Report , Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop.
	Computerized Forward Reconstruction for Analysis in Diachronic Phonology, and Latin to French Reflex Prediction. Clayton Marr and David R. Mortensen. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2020).
	AlloVera: A Multilingual Allophone Database. David R. Mortensen, Xinjian Li, Patrick Littell, Alexis Michaud, Shruti Rijhwani, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Alan W Black, Florian Metze, and Graham Neubig. Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020).
	Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods. Maria Ryskina, Ella Rabinovich, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, David Mortensen, and Yulia Tsvetkov. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2020 (SCiL 2020).
	Universal Phone Recognition with a Multilingual Allophone System. Xinjian Li, Siddharth Dalmia, Juncheng Li, Matthew Lee, Patrick Littell, Jiali Yao, Antonios Anastasopoulos, David R. Mortensen, Graham Neubig, Alan W Black, and Florian Metze. Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020).
	Towards Zero-shot Learning for Automatic Phonemic Transcription. Xinjian Li, Siddharth Dalmia, David R. Mortensen, Juncheng Li, Alan Black, and Florian Metze. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020).
2019	Hmong (Mong Leng). David R. Mortensen. Chapter in The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area.
2018	Adapting Word Embeddings to New Languages with Morphological and Phonological Subword Representations. Aditi Chaudhary, Chunting Zhou, Lori Levin, Graham Neubig, David R. Mortensen, and Jaime Carbonell. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018).
	Epitran: Precision G2P for Many Languages. David R. Mortensen, Siddharth Dalmia, and Patrick Littell. Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018).
	Parser combinators for Tigrinya and Oromo morphology. Patrick Littell, Tom McCoy, Na-Rae Han, Shruti Rijhwani, Zaid Sheikh, David Mortensen, Teruko Mitamura, and Lori Levin. Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018).
	The ARIEL-CMU situation frame detection pipeline for LoReHLT16: a model translation approach. Patrick Littell, Tian Tian, Ruochen Xu, Zaid Sheikh, David Mortensen, Lori Levin, Francis Tyers, Hiroaki Hayashi, Graham Horwood, Steve Sloto, Emily Tagtow, Alan Black, Yiming Yang, Teruko Mitamura, and Eduard Hovy. Machine Translation 32(1–2).
2017	URIEL and lang2vec: Representing languages as typological, geographical, and phylogenetic vectors. Patrick Littell, David R. Mortensen, Ke Lin, Katherine Kairis, Carlisle Turner, and Lori Levin. Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2017).
	Hmong-Mien Languages. David R. Mortensen. Chapter in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.
2016	Named Entity Recognition for Linguistic Rapid Response in Low-Resource Languages: Sorani Kurdish and Tajik. Patrick Littell, Kartik Goyal, David R. Mortensen, Alexa Little, Chris Dyer, and Lori Levin. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016).
	PanPhon: A Resource for Mapping IPA Segments to Articulatory Feature Vectors. David R. Mortensen, Patrick Littell, Akash Bharadwaj, Kartik Goyal, Chris Dyer, and Lori Levin. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016).
	Phonologically Aware Neural Model for Named Entity Recognition in Low Resource Transfer Settings. Akash Bharadwaj, David Mortensen, Chris Dyer, and Jaime Carbonell. Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016).
	Bridge-Language Capitalization Inference in Western Iranian: Sorani, Kurmanji, Zazaki, and Tajik. Patrick Littell, David R. Mortensen, Kartik Goyal, Chris Dyer, and Lori Levin. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016).