Sarah Payne

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 2023–2026

Sarah Payne wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2023–2026; often with Jordan Kodner, Salam Khalifa, Zoey Liu.

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Papers

A Logical Analysis of Autosegmental Approaches to Root-and-Pattern Morphology in Arabic (2026)
Jardine (2017) showed that left-to-right association of autosegmental representations of arbitrary length is not definable in monadic second-order logic, which casts doubt on the cognitive plausibility of the autosegmental approach.
Morphological Inflection: A Reality Check (2023)
The paper examines how morphological inflection benchmarks are built and scored. It names three problems: uniform sampling by type creates unnatural train-test splits, a single split gives unstable model rankings, and train and test items overlap in uncontrolled ways. The overlap is split into four types of (lemma…