Arya D. McCarthy

30 papers · 2018–2025 · 8 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (52) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (8) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🏃 Academic Marathon (7) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (11) 🔥 Unstoppable (6) ⚡ Prolific Year (6) 💎 Century Club (30) ❓ The Questioner 🗃️ Keyword Collector (122)

Conferences

ACL (13) EMNLP (7) IJCNLP (3) COLING (2) CONLL (2) EACL (1) ICLR (1) NAACL (1)

Top co-authors

Ryan Cotterell (8) David Yarowsky (7) Winston Wu (6) Mans Hulden (6) Miikka Silfverberg (6) Katharina Kann (6) Garrett Nicolai (5) Giovanna Maria Dora Dore (4) Ekaterina Vylomova (4) James Scharf (3)

Research topics

Linguistics (2) Education (1)

Keywords

word embedding (4) low-resource language (4) mutual information (3) topic modeling (3) computational linguistics (3) unsupervised learning (3) morphological analysis (3) sentiment analysis (3) neural machine translation (3) transfer learning (2) machine translation (2) adaptor grammars (2) multilingual nlp (2) domain adaptation (2) text classification (2) information theory (2) news analysis (2) text analysis (2) natural language processing (2) cross-lingual transfer (2)

Papers

LawInstruct: A Resource for Studying Language Model Adaptation to the Legal Domain NAACL 2025

Theory-Grounded Computational Text Analysis ACL 2023

The SIGMORPHON 2022 Shared Task on Cross-lingual and Low-Resource Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion ACL 2023

Meeting the Needs of Low-Resource Languages: The Value of Automatic Alignments via Pretrained Models EACL 2023

On the Uncomputability of Partition Functions in Energy-Based Sequence Models ICLR 2022

A Major Obstacle for NLP Research: Let’s Talk about Time Allocation! EMNLP 2022

Pre-Trained Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models: A Hope for Low-Resource Language Translation? ACL 2022

Deciphering and Characterizing Out-of-Vocabulary Words for Morphologically Rich Languages COLING 2022

Characterizing News Portrayal of Civil Unrest in Hong Kong, 1998–2020 ACL 2021

Findings of the SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm Clustering ACL 2021

Jump-Starting Item Parameters for Adaptive Language Tests EMNLP 2021

Characterizing News Portrayal of Civil Unrest in Hong Kong, 1998–2020 IJCNLP 2021

A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Western and Hong Kong–based Reporting on the 2019–2020 Protests EMNLP 2021

Findings of the SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm Clustering IJCNLP 2021

Addressing Posterior Collapse with Mutual Information for Improved Variational Neural Machine Translation ACL 2020

The JHU Submission to the 2020 Duolingo Shared Task on Simultaneous Translation and Paraphrase for Language Education ACL 2020

The SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task on Unsupervised Morphological Paradigm Completion ACL 2020

The human unlikeness of neural language models in next-word prediction ACL 2020

Neural Transduction for Multilingual Lexical Translation COLING 2020

Predicting Declension Class from Form and Meaning ACL 2020

Measuring the Similarity of Grammatical Gender Systems by Comparing Partitions EMNLP 2020

The SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task: Morphological Analysis in Context and Cross-Lingual Transfer for Inflection ACL 2019

Meaning to Form: Measuring Systematicity as Information ACL 2019

Proceedings of TyP-NLP: The First Workshop on Typology for Polyglot NLP ACL 2019

Weird Inflects but OK: Making Sense of Morphological Generation Errors CONLL 2019

Modeling Color Terminology Across Thousands of Languages EMNLP 2019

Modeling Color Terminology Across Thousands of Languages IJCNLP 2019

Freezing Subnetworks to Analyze Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2018

Marrying Universal Dependencies and Universal Morphology EMNLP 2018

The CoNLL–SIGMORPHON 2018 Shared Task: Universal Morphological Reinflection CONLL 2018