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Sharon Goldwater

63 papers · 2000–2025 · 10 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (10) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (25) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (11) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (61) 🌱 Topic Pioneer πŸ† Keyword Champion 🧬 Topic Evolution 🀝 Dynamic Duo (10) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ’Ž Century Club (63) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (171) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (10) ❓ The Questioner (6) ⚑ Prolific Year (5)

Conferences

ACL (15) EMNLP (13) NAACL (9) EACL (8) INTERSPEECH (6) CONLL (4) IJCNLP (3) COLING (2) JMLR (2) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Mark Johnson (10) Mark Steedman (10) Adam Lopez (7) Elizabeth Nielsen (4) Naomi Feldman (4) Toms Bergmanis (4) Phil Blunsom (4) Herman Kamper (4) Thomas L. Griffiths (4) Trevor Cohn (4)

Research topics

Linguistics (3) Analysis (1)

Keywords

self-supervised learning (5) low-resource language (4) speech recognition (4) adaptor grammars (3) phonetic information (3) speech translation (3) text classification (3) dialect identification (3) spoken dialogue (3) speech representation (2) representation learning (2) word clustering (2) neural model (2) cross-linguistic analysis (2) unsupervised learning (2) disfluency detection (2) encoder-decoder architecture (2) pitman-yor process (2) neural encoder-decoder (2) pitch feature (2)

Papers

The Cross-linguistic Role of Animacy in Grammar Structures ACL 2025
A Grounded Typology of Word Classes NAACL 2025
Revisiting Common Assumptions about Arabic Dialects in NLP ACL 2025
Estimating the Level of Dialectness Predicts Inter-annotator Agreement in Multi-dialect Arabic Datasets ACL 2024
Orthogonality and isotropy of speaker and phonetic information in self-supervised speech representations INTERSPEECH 2024
Self-supervised speech representations display some human-like cross-linguistic perceptual abilities EMNLP 2024
Self-supervised speech representations display some human-like cross-linguistic perceptual abilities CONLL 2024
ALDi: Quantifying the Arabic Level of Dialectness of Text EMNLP 2023
Self-supervised Predictive Coding Models Encode Speaker and Phonetic Information in Orthogonal Subspaces INTERSPEECH 2023
Parsing dialog turns with prosodic features in English INTERSPEECH 2023
Acoustic Word Embeddings for Untranscribed Target Languages with Continued Pretraining and Learned Pooling INTERSPEECH 2023
Language-Agnostic Measures Discriminate Inflection and Derivation EACL 2023
Adaptor Grammars for Unsupervised Paradigm Clustering ACL 2021
On the Difficulty of Segmenting Words with Attention EMNLP 2021
[RETRACTED] Prosodic segmentation for parsing spoken dialogue IJCNLP 2021
Adaptor Grammars for Unsupervised Paradigm Clustering IJCNLP 2021
A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing EACL 2021
[RETRACTED] Prosodic segmentation for parsing spoken dialogue ACL 2021
The role of context in neural pitch accent detection in English EMNLP 2020
Conditioning, but on Which Distribution? Grammatical Gender in German Plural Inflection EMNLP 2020
Inflecting When There’s No Majority: Limitations of Encoder-Decoder Neural Networks as Cognitive Models for German Plurals ACL 2020
Data Augmentation for Context-Sensitive Neural Lemmatization Using Inflection Tables and Raw Text NAACL 2019
Pre-training on high-resource speech recognition improves low-resource speech-to-text translation NAACL 2019
Are we there yet? Encoder-decoder neural networks as cognitive models of English past tense inflection ACL 2019
Multilingual Bottleneck Features for Subword Modeling in Zero-resource Languages INTERSPEECH 2018
Context Sensitive Neural Lemmatization with Lematus NAACL 2018
Evaluating Historical Text Normalization Systems: How Well Do They Generalize? NAACL 2018
Inducing a lexicon of sociolinguistic variables from code-mixed text EMNLP 2018
Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation INTERSPEECH 2018
From Segmentation to Analyses: a Probabilistic Model for Unsupervised Morphology Induction EACL 2017
Aye or naw, whit dae ye hink? Scottish independence and linguistic identity on social media EACL 2017
Towards speech-to-text translation without speech recognition EACL 2017
Training Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Morphological Inflection CONLL 2017
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume 2: Short Papers EACL 2014
Weak semantic context helps phonetic learning in a model of infant language acquisition ACL 2014
POS induction with distributional and morphological information using a distance-dependent Chinese restaurant process ACL 2014
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics EACL 2014
Exploring the Utility of Joint Morphological and Syntactic Learning from Child-directed Speech EMNLP 2013
A Joint Learning Model of Word Segmentation, Lexical Acquisition, and Phonetic Variability EMNLP 2013
Semantic Parsing with Bayesian Tree Transducers ACL 2012
Bootstrapping a Unified Model of Lexical and Phonetic Acquisition ACL 2012
Turning the pipeline into a loop: Iterated unsupervised dependency parsing and PoS induction NAACL 2012
A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings EACL 2012
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning CONLL 2011
A Bayesian Mixture Model for PoS Induction Using Multiple Features EMNLP 2011
Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing EMNLP 2011
Producing Power-Law Distributions and Damping Word Frequencies with Two-Stage Language Models JMLR 2011
Two Decades of Unsupervised POS Induction: How Far Have We Come? EMNLP 2010
Inducing Tree-Substitution Grammars JMLR 2010
Inducing Probabilistic CCG Grammars from Logical Form with Higher-Order Unification EMNLP 2010
Inducing Compact but Accurate Tree-Substitution Grammars NAACL 2009
A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes ACL 2009
A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes IJCNLP 2009
Improving nonparameteric Bayesian inference: experiments on unsupervised word segmentation with adaptor grammars NAACL 2009
Which Words Are Hard to Recognize? Prosodic, Lexical, and Disfluency Factors that Increase ASR Error Rates ACL 2008
Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo NAACL 2007
A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging ACL 2007
Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation ACL 2006
Adaptor Grammars: A Framework for Specifying Compositional Nonparametric Bayesian Models NIPS 2006
Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation COLING 2006
Representational Bias in Unsupervised Learning of Syllable Structure CONLL 2005
Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis EMNLP 2005
Compiling Language Models from a Linguistically Motivated Unification Grammar COLING 2000