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# SCiL 2020: all accepted papers

61 papers · the most cited first · [← SCiL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/2020/)

1. **[A closer look at the performance of neural language models on reflexive anaphor licensing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hu-2020-closer-look-performance-neural-language/)**Jennifer Hu, Sherry Yong Chen, Roger Levy*our summary*
2. **[A principled derivation of Harmonic Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.23/)**Giorgio Magri
3. **[Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology in Artificial Neural Networks With Prior Knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.19/)**Katharina Kann
4. **[An IBSP Description of Sanskrit /n/-Retroflexion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.48/)**Ayla Karakaş
5. **[Assessing the ability of Transformer-based Neural Models to represent structurally unbounded dependencies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.2/)**Jillian Da Costa, Rui Chaves
6. **[Automatic Induction of Minimalist Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.60/)**Marina Ermolaeva
7. **[Automating Gloss Generation in Interlinear Glossed Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.42/)**Angelina McMillan-Major
8. **[BLiMP: A Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.47/)**Alex Warstadt, Alicia Parrish, Haokun Liu et al.
9. **[Communication-based Evaluation for Natural Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.16/)**Benjamin Newman, Reuben Cohn-Gordon, Christopher Potts
10. **[Constraint summation in phonological theory ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.15/)**Benjamin Storme, Giorgio Magri
11. **[Crosslinguistic Word Orders Enable an Efficient Tradeoff of Memory and Surprisal ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.12/)**Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell
12. **[Curbing Feature Coding: Strictly Local Feature Assignment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.27/)**Thomas Graf
13. **[DialectGram: Automatic Detection of Dialectal Changes with Multi-geographic Resolution Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.18/)**Hang Jiang, Haoshen Hong, Yuxing Chen et al.
14. **[Equiprobable mappings in weighted constraint grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.14/)**Arto Anttila, Scott Borgeson, Giorgio Magri
15. **[Evolving constraints and rules in Harmonic Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.13/)**Elliott Moreton
16. **[Extending adaptor grammars to learn phonological alternations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.57/)**Canaan Breiss, Colin Wilson
17. **[Extending the Autosegmental Input Strictly Local Framework: Metrical Dominance and Floating Tones ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.17/)**Yuhong Zhu
18. **[Frequency Matching Behavior in On-line MaxEnt Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.54/)**Charlie O'Hara
19. **[Frequency-(in)dependent regularization in language production and cultural transmission ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.30/)**Emily Morgan, Roger Levy
20. **[Graph-to-Graph Meaning Representation Transformations for Human-Robot Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.31/)**Mitchell Abrams, Claire Bonial, Lucia Donatelli
21. **[Immature representation or immature deployment? Modeling child pronoun resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.3/)**Hannah Forsythe, Lisa Pearl
22. **[Inferring Minimalist Grammars with an SMT-Solver ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.53/)**Sagar Indurkhya
23. **[Inflectional networks: Graph-theoretic tools for inflectional typology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.37/)**Andrea D. Sims
24. **[Interpreting Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Russian Inflectional Morphology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.58/)**David King, Andrea Sims, Micha Elsner
25. **[Interpreting Verbal Irony: Linguistic Strategies and the Connection to theType of Semantic Incongruity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2020-interpreting-verbal-irony-linguistic-strategies/)**Debanjan Ghosh, Elena Musi, Smaranda Muresan*our summary*
26. **[Lexical databases for computational analyses: A linguistic perspective ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.52/)**Robert Malouf, Farrell Ackerman, Arturs Semenuks
27. **[Limitations in learning an interpreted language with recurrent models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.55/)**Denis Paperno
28. **[MG Parsing as a Model of Gradient Acceptability in Syntactic Islands ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.7/)**Aniello De Santo
29. **[Metrical Grids and Generalized Tier Projection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.56/)**Yiding Hao
30. **[Modeing unsupervised phonetic and phonological learning in Generative Adversarial Phonology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.5/)**Gasper Begus
31. **[Modeling Behavior in Truth Value Judgment Task Experiments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.29/)**Brandon Waldon, Judith Degen
32. **[Modeling conventionalization and predictability within MWEs at the brain level ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.38/)**Shohini Bhattasali, Murielle Fabre, Christophe Pallier et al.
33. **[Modeling morphological processing in human magnetoencephalography ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.50/)**Yohei Oseki, Alec Marantz
34. **[Modeling the learning of the Person Case Constraint ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.41/)**Adam Liter, Naomi H. Feldman
35. **[Modelling non-local maps as Strictly Piecewise Functions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.61/)**Phillip Burness, Kevin McMullin
36. **[MonaLog: a Lightweight System for Natural Language Inference Based on Monotonicity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.40/)**Hai Hu, Qi Chen, Kyle Richardson et al.
37. **[Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Templatic Morphology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.25/)**Hossep Dolatian, Jonathan Rawski
38. **[Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Tonal Phonology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.26/)**Jonathan Rawski, Hossep Dolatian
39. **[Neural network learning of the Russian genitive of negation: optionality and structure sensitivity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.6/)**Natalia Talmina, Tal Linzen
40. **[Phonotactic learning with neural language models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.36/)**Connor Mayer, Max Nelson
41. **[Probing RNN Encoder-Decoder Generalization of Subregular Functions using Reduplication ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.22/)**Max Nelson, Hossep Dolatian, Jonathan Rawski et al.
42. **[Quantifier-free tree transductions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.20/)**Shiori Ikawa, Akane Ohtaka, Adam Jardine
43. **[Questioning to Resolve Transduction Problems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.59/)**Eric Meinhardt, Anna Mai, Eric Baković et al.
44. **[Reconciling historical data and modern computational models in corpus creation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.51/)**Joseph Rhyne
45. **[Script knowledge constrains ellipses in fragments – Evidence from production data and language modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.24/)**Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus et al.
46. **[Semantic categories of artifacts and animals reflect efficient coding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.9/)**Noga Zaslavsky, Terry Regier, Naftali Tishby et al.
47. **[Stop the Morphological Cycle, I Want to Get Off: Modeling the Development of Fusion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.4/)**Micha Elsner, Martha Johnson, Stephanie Antetomaso et al.
48. **[Tensor Product Decomposition Networks: Uncovering Representations of Structure Learned by Neural Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.34/)**R. Thomas McCoy, Tal Linzen, Ewan Dunbar et al.
49. **[The Rhetorical Structure of Modus Tollens: An Exploration in Logic-Mining ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.8/)**Andrew Potter
50. **[The Role of Linguistic Features in Domain Adaptation: TAG Parsing of Questions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.33/)**Aarohi Srivastava, Robert Frank, Sarah Widder et al.
51. **[The Subregular Complexity of Syntactic Islands ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.49/)**Nazila Shafiei, Thomas Graf
52. **[The lexical and grammatical sources of neg-raising inferences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.45/)**Hannah Youngeun An, Aaron Steven White
53. **[The role of information theory in gap-filler dependencies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.28/)**Gregory Kobele, Linyang He, Ming Xiang
54. **[The stability of segmental properties across genre and corpus types in low-resource languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.44/)**Uriel Cohen Priva, Shiying Yang, Emily Strand
55. **[Tier-Based Strictly Local Stringsets: Perspectives from Model and Automata Theory ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.21/)**Dakotah Lambert, James Rogers
56. **[Unsupervised Formal Grammar Induction with Confidence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.46/)**Jacob Collard
57. **[What Code-Switching Strategies are Effective in Dialog Systems? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.32/)**Emily Ahn, Cecilia Jimenez, Yulia Tsvetkov et al.
58. **[What Don't RNN Language Models Learn About Filler-Gap Dependencies? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.1/)**Rui Chaves
59. **[What do you mean, BERT? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.35/)**Timothee Mickus, Denis Paperno, Mathieu Constant et al.
60. **[Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.43/)**Maria Ryskina, Ella Rabinovich, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick et al.
61. **[Work in Progress: Information-theoretic characterization of the subregular hierarchy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.scil-1.11/)**Huteng Dai, Richard Futrell
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