Matthew Lamm

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2017–2021

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

Ellipsis Resolution as Question Answering: An Evaluation (2021)
The paper treats ellipsis resolution as a reading-comprehension problem. The elided clause becomes a question, and the antecedent becomes the answer span in the preceding text. The authors train BERT-based models on sluice ellipsis and VP ellipsis, first alone and then jointly with question-answering and coreference…
The Pragmatics of Indirect Commands in Collaborative Discourse (2017)
In the Cards corpus (1,266 transcripts of a two-player game: collect six consecutive cards of one suit, hold at most three each) the authors study commands that name neither an action nor an agent: locative statements such as «there is a 5h in the very top left corner», after which the partner goes and picks the card…
Gapping Constructions in Universal Dependencies v2 (2017)
This is a design paper rather than an experiment. It asks how gapping (the omission of a repeated verb, as in "John likes tea, and Mary coffee") should be represented in UD v2. The authors survey the cross-linguistic patterns of gapping, including languages where the overt verb sits in the last conjunct, and compare…