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David R. Mortensen

34 papers · 2016–2026 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (16) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (12) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🧭 Keyword Pioneer πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (9) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (10) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (167) ⚑ Prolific Year (6) πŸ’Ž Century Club (32) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (10) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter ❓ The Questioner

Conferences

COLING (9) ACL (7) EMNLP (6) INTERSPEECH (6) EACL (4) AACL (1) IJCNLP (1)

Top co-authors

Lori Levin (7) Graham Neubig (6) Kalvin Chang (6) Nathaniel Robinson (4) Yulia Tsvetkov (4) Shinji Watanabe (4) Aditi Chaudhary (4) Nathaniel Romney Robinson (4) Xinjian Li (3) Chenxuan Cui (3)

Research topics

Linguistics (2)

Keywords

low-resource language (11) machine translation (7) large language model (6) transfer learning (4) automatic speech recognition (4) named entity recognition (4) speech recognition (3) protoform reconstruction (3) cross-lingual transfer (3) emergent language (2) natural language inference (2) multilingual speech (2) data augmentation (2) speech synthesis (2) interlinear glossing (2) multilingual generation (2) multilingual model (2) synthetic data generation (2) representation learning (2) phone recognition (2)

Papers

Happiness is Sharing a Vocabulary: A Study of Transliteration Methods EACL 2026
From sunblock to softblock: Analyzing the correlates of neology in published writing and on social media EACL 2026
The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure AACL 2025
ZIPA: A family of efficient models for multilingual phone recognition ACL 2025
DialUp! Modeling the Language Continuum by Adapting Models to Dialects and Dialects to Models ACL 2025
Programming by Example meets Historical Linguistics: A Large Language Model Based Approach to Sound Law Induction ACL 2025
Searching for the Most Human-like Emergent Language EMNLP 2025
Morpheme Induction for Emergent Language EMNLP 2025
The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure IJCNLP 2025
PWESuite: Phonetic Word Embeddings and Tasks They Facilitate COLING 2024
Verbing Weirds Language (Models): Evaluation of English Zero-Derivation in Five LLMs COLING 2024
Self-supervised Speech Representations Still Struggle with African American Vernacular English INTERSPEECH 2024
Constructions Are So Difficult That Even Large Language Models Get Them Right for the Wrong Reasons COLING 2024
Improved Neural Protoform Reconstruction via Reflex Prediction COLING 2024
Phonotactic Complexity across Dialects COLING 2024
Generalized Glossing Guidelines: An Explicit, Human- and Machine-Readable, Item-and-Process Convention for Morphological Annotation ACL 2023
ChatGPT MT: Competitive for High- (but Not Low-) Resource Languages EMNLP 2023
SigMoreFun Submission to the SIGMORPHON Shared Task on Interlinear Glossing ACL 2023
Transformed Protoform Reconstruction ACL 2023
ASR2K: Speech Recognition for Around 2000 Languages without Audio INTERSPEECH 2022
WikiHan: A New Comparative Dataset for Chinese Languages COLING 2022
Data-adaptive Transfer Learning for Translation: A Case Study in Haitian and Jamaican COLING 2022
When Is TTS Augmentation Through a Pivot Language Useful? INTERSPEECH 2022
Evaluating the Morphosyntactic Well-formedness of Generated Texts EMNLP 2021
Phoneme Recognition Through Fine Tuning of Phonetic Representations: A Case Study on Luhya Language Varieties INTERSPEECH 2021
Differentiable Allophone Graphs for Language-Universal Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2021
Cross-Cultural Similarity Features for Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning of Pragmatically Motivated Tasks EACL 2021
Tusom2021: A Phonetically Transcribed Speech Dataset from an Endangered Language for Universal Phone Recognition Experiments INTERSPEECH 2021
Automatic Extraction of Rules Governing Morphological Agreement EMNLP 2020
CMU-01 at the SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task on Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology ACL 2019
Adapting Word Embeddings to New Languages with Morphological and Phonological Subword Representations EMNLP 2018
URIEL and lang2vec: Representing languages as typological, geographical, and phylogenetic vectors EACL 2017
Named Entity Recognition for Linguistic Rapid Response in Low-Resource Languages: Sorani Kurdish and Tajik COLING 2016
PanPhon: A Resource for Mapping IPA Segments to Articulatory Feature Vectors COLING 2016