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# SCiL 2021 — accepted papers

SCiL 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL), held in Online, February 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 61 papers of it; our library holds 6 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**61** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**6** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/2021/#works) · [**106** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/2021/#works)**Online** where it was held**February 2021** when

## All accepted papers (61)

The most cited first; 6 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Data-driven Approach to Crosslinguistic Structural Biases ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.31/)**Alex Kramer, Zoey Liu
2. **[A Minimalist Approach to Facilitatory Effects in Stacked Relative Clauses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.1/)**Aniello De Santo
3. **[A Network Science Approach to Bilingual Code-switching ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.2/)**Qihui Xu, Magdalena Markowska, Martin Chodorow et al.
4. **[A Rate–Distortion view of human pragmatic reasoning?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zaslavsky-2021-rate-distortion-view-human-pragmatic/)**Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu, Roger P. Levy*our summary*
5. **[Apparent Communicative Efficiency in the Lexicon is Emergent ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.33/)**Spencer Caplan, Jordan Kodner, Charles Yang
6. **[CCG Supertagging as Top-down Tree Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.34/)**Jakob Prange, Nathan Schneider, Vivek Srikumar
7. **[Can RNNs trained on harder subject-verb agreement instances still perform well on easier ones?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bansal-2021-can-rnns-trained-harder-subject/)**Hritik Bansal, Gantavya Bhatt, Sumeet Agarwal*our summary*
8. **[Capturing gradience in long-distance phonology using probabilistic tier-based strictly local grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.4/)**Connor Mayer
9. **[Comparing methods of tree-construction across mildly context-sensitive formalisms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.35/)**Tim Hunter, Robert Frank
10. **[Consistent unsupervised estimators for anchored PCFGs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.60/)**Alexander Clark, Nathanaël Fijalkow
11. **[Consonant harmony, disharmony, memory and time scales ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.18/)**Adamantios Gafos
12. **[Deep neural networks easily learn unnatural infixation and reduplication patterns ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.51/)**Coleman Haley, Colin Wilson
13. **[Dependency lengths in speech and writing: A cross-linguistic comparison via YouDePP, a pipeline for scraping and parsing YouTube captions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.36/)**Alex Kramer
14. **[Drivers of English Syntactic Change in the Canadian Parliament ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.5/)**Liwen Hou, David A. Smith
15. **[Effects of Duration, Locality, and Surprisal in Speech Disfluency Prediction in English Spontaneous Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dammalapati-2021-effects-duration-locality-surprisal-speech/)**Samvit Dammalapati, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Sidharth Ranjan et al.*our summary*
16. **[Efficiency of Top-Down Parsing of Recursive Adjunction for Tree Adjoining Grammar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.38/)**Jing Ji
17. **[Emergent Gestural Scores in a Recurrent Neural Network Model of Vowel Harmony ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.6/)**Caitlin Smith, Charlie O'Hara, Eric Rosen et al.
18. **[Emerging English Transitives over the Last Two Centuries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.7/)**Liwen Hou, David A. Smith
19. **[Epistemic Semantics in Guarded String Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.8/)**Eric Hayden Campbell, Mats Rooth
20. **[Every ambiguity isn't syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity\ensuremath*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-every-ambiguity-isn-t-syntactic/)**Sherry Yong Chen, Bob van Tiel*our summary*
21. **[Every quantifier isn't the same: Informativity matters for ambiguity resolution in quantifier-negation sentences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.43/)**Noa Attali, Gregory Scontras, Lisa S. Pearl
22. **[Extracting English lexical borrowings from Spanish newswire ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.40/)**Elena Álvarez Mellado
23. **[Formalizing Inflectional Paradigm Shape with Information Theory ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.10/)**Grace LeFevre, Micha Elsner, Andrea D. Sims
24. **[Frequency-Dependent Regularization in Syntactic Constructions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.41/)**Zoey Liu, Emily Morgan
25. **[Global divergence and local convergence of utterance semantic representations in dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.scil-1.11/)**Yang Xu

[See all 61 papers in SCiL 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/2021/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (6)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[A Rate–Distortion view of human pragmatic reasoning?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zaslavsky-2021-rate-distortion-view-human-pragmatic/) [Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/)**Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu, Roger P. Levy*2021 · 69 citations*
2. [**Predicting scalar inferences from "or" to "not both" using neural sentence encoders**Elissa Li, Sebastian Schuster, Judith Degen*2021 · 15 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2021-predicting-scalar-inferences-or-not/)
3. **[Effects of Duration, Locality, and Surprisal in Speech Disfluency Prediction in English Spontaneous Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dammalapati-2021-effects-duration-locality-surprisal-speech/) [Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/)**Samvit Dammalapati, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Sidharth Ranjan, et al.*2021 · 14 citations*
4. [**Tell Me Everything You Know: A Conversation Update System for the Rational Speech Acts Framework**Carolyn Jane Anderson*2021 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anderson-2021-tell-me-everything-you-know/)
5. **[Every ambiguity isn't syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity\ensuremath*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-every-ambiguity-isn-t-syntactic/) [Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/)**Sherry Yong Chen, Bob van Tiel*2021 · 3 citations*
6. **[Can RNNs trained on harder subject-verb agreement instances still perform well on easier ones?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bansal-2021-can-rnns-trained-harder-subject/) [Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/scil/)**Hritik Bansal, Gantavya Bhatt, Sumeet Agarwal*2021 · 1 citation*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[English (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/)

## Fields

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## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Sumeet Agarwal**2 works here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sumeet-agarwal/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jennifer Hu**1 work here · 69 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennifer-hu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Roger Levy**1 work here · 69 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roger-levy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Judith Degen**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/judith-degen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sebastian Schuster**1 work here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-schuster/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rajakrishnan Rajkumar**1 work here · 14 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rajakrishnan-rajkumar/) · [🧑‍🔬**Carolyn Jane Anderson**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolyn-jane-anderson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Bob van Tiel**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bob-van-tiel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sherry Yong Chen**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yong-chen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hritik Bansal**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hritik-bansal/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Delhi** New Delhi · India 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-delhi/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal** Bhopal · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-science-education-and-research-bhopal/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/)

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