Sharon Goldwater

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Sharon Goldwater is affiliated with the following schools: Brown University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Edinburgh, Stanford University

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Computational Linguistics

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Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Sharon J. Goldwater is an American and British computer scientist, cognitive scientist, developmental linguist, and natural language processing researcher who holds the Personal Chair of Computational Language Learning in the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Her research involves the unsupervised learning of language by computers, and computer modeling of language development in children.

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Sharon Goldwater's Published Works

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A Bayesian framework for word segmentation: Exploring the effects of context (2009) (453)
Learning OT constraint rankings using a maximum entropy model (2003) (383)
A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging (2007) (366)
Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation (2006) (341)
Inducing Probabilistic CCG Grammars from Logical Form with Higher-Order Unification (2010) (328)
Adaptor Grammars: A Framework for Specifying Compositional Nonparametric Bayesian Models (2006) (303)
Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2007) (225)
Interpolating between types and tokens by estimating power-law generators (2005) (224)
Lexical Generalization in CCG Grammar Induction for Semantic Parsing (2011) (223)
Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis (2005) (196)
A role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition. (2013) (173)
Which words are hard to recognize? Prosodic, lexical, and disfluency factors that increase speech recognition error rates (2010) (172)
Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation (2010) (158)
Two Decades of Unsupervised POS Induction: How Far Have We Come? (2010) (155)
Improving nonparameteric Bayesian inference: experiments on unsupervised word segmentation with adaptor grammars (2009) (154)
Pre-training on high-resource speech recognition improves low-resource speech-to-text translation (2018) (147)
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) (2014) (134)
Unsupervised neural network based feature extraction using weak top-down constraints (2015) (118)
Nonparametric bayesian models of lexical acquisition (2007) (115)
Edge-Based Best-First Chart Parsing (1998) (108)
A summary of the 2012 JHU CLSP workshop on zero resource speech technologies and models of early language acquisition (2013) (106)
A comparison of neural network methods for unsupervised representation learning on the zero resource speech challenge (2015) (106)
Inducing Tree-Substitution Grammars (2010) (96)
A type system for statically detecting spreadsheet errors (2003) (95)
A segmental framework for fully-unsupervised large-vocabulary speech recognition (2016) (90)
Producing Power-Law Distributions and Damping Word Frequencies with Two-Stage Language Models (2011) (84)
A Probabilistic Model of Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition from Child-Directed Utterances and their Meanings (2012) (82)
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2009) (77)
An embedded segmental K-means model for unsupervised segmentation and clustering of speech (2017) (75)
Inducing Compact but Accurate Tree-Substitution Grammars (2009) (70)
Unsupervised Word Segmentation and Lexicon Discovery Using Acoustic Word Embeddings (2016) (69)
Minimally-Supervised Morphological Segmentation using Adaptor Grammars (2013) (61)
Towards speech-to-text translation without speech recognition (2017) (60)
A Non-Parametric Bayesian Approach to Spike Sorting (2006) (59)
Online Learning Mechanisms for Bayesian Models of Word Segmentation (2010) (57)
Bootstrapping language acquisition (2017) (55)
Semantic Parsing with Bayesian Tree Transducers (2012) (54)
Training Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Morphological Inflection (2017) (52)
Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories: Insights from large-scale simulations on realistic input (2021) (48)
A Joint Learning Model of Word Segmentation, Lexical Acquisition, and Phonetic Variability (2013) (47)
Context Sensitive Neural Lemmatization with Lematus (2018) (46)
Fully unsupervised small-vocabulary speech recognition using a segmental Bayesian model (2015) (44)
Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation (2018) (42)
Analyzing ASR Pretraining for Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation (2019) (40)
Talkers account for listener and channel characteristics to communicate efficiently (2015) (38)
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (2012) (36)
Unsupervised lexical clustering of speech segments using fixed-dimensional acoustic embeddings (2014) (36)
Improving morphology induction by learning spelling rules (2009) (34)
A Note on the Implementation of Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes (2009) (33)
Priors in Bayesian Learning of Phonological Rules (2004) (31)
A Bayesian mixture model for part-of-speech induction using multiple features (2011) (30)
Bootstrapping a Unified Model of Lexical and Phonetic Acquisition (2012) (29)
Self-Representation on Twitter Using Emoji Skin Color Modifiers (2018) (28)
Are we there yet? Encoder-decoder neural networks as cognitive models of English past tense inflection (2019) (28)
Which Words Are Hard to Recognize? Prosodic, Lexical, and Disfluency Factors that Increase ASR Error Rates (2008) (25)
Unsupervised Dependency Parsing with Acoustic Cues (2013) (22)
Evaluating Models of Syntactic Category Acquisition without Using a Gold Standard (2009) (20)
Unsupervised Syntactic Chunking with Acoustic Cues: Computational Models for Prosodic Bootstrapping (2011) (18)
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2011, 27-31 July 2011, John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL (2011) (18)
Multilingual bottleneck features for subword modeling in zero-resource languages (2018) (18)
Statistical Learning, Inductive Bias, and Bayesian Inference in Language Acquisition (2016) (18)
Representational Bias in Unsupervised Learning of Syllable Structure (2005) (18)
Aye or naw, whit dae ye hink? Scottish independence and linguistic identity on social media (2017) (17)
Inflecting When There’s No Majority: Limitations of Encoder-Decoder Neural Networks as Cognitive Models for German Plurals (2020) (17)
Distributional Cues to Word Boundaries: Context is Important (2008) (16)
Multilingual and Unsupervised Subword Modeling for Zero-Resource Languages (2018) (16)
Beyond Transitional Probabilities: Human Learners Impose a Parsimony Bias in Statistical Word Segmentation (2010) (15)
Weak semantic context helps phonetic learning in a model of infant language acquisition (2014) (15)
From Segmentation to Analyses: a Probabilistic Model for Unsupervised Morphology Induction (2017) (15)
Multilingual Acoustic Word Embedding Models for Processing Zero-resource Languages (2020) (15)
Spoken Term Discovery for Language Documentation using Translations (2017) (14)
Compiling Language Models from a Linguistically Motivated Unification Grammar (2000) (14)
Turning the pipeline into a loop: Iterated unsupervised dependency parsing and PoS induction (2012) (14)
A Bayesian Mixture Model for PoS Induction Using Multiple Features (2011) (14)
Evaluating Historical Text Normalization Systems: How Well Do They Generalize? (2018) (13)
Modeling Human Performance on Statistical Word Segmentation Tasks (2007) (13)
Towards robust cross-linguistic comparisons of phonological networks (2016) (13)
Unsupervised Extraction of Recurring Words from Infant-Directed Speech (2011) (13)
Emoji Skin Tone Modifiers: Analyzing Variation in Usage on Social Media (2020) (12)
Modeling Graph Languages with Grammars Extracted via Tree Decompositions (2013) (12)
How ideal are we? Incorporating human limitations into Bayesian models of word segmentation (2010) (12)
Weakly supervised spoken term discovery using cross-lingual side information (2016) (12)
Evaluating computational models of infant phonetic learning across languages (2020) (12)
Topic and audience effects on distinctively Scottish vocabulary usage in Twitter data (2017) (11)
Proceedings of the Workshop on Variation within Optimality Theory (2003) (11)
Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers (2009) (11)
POS induction with distributional and morphological information using a distance-dependent Chinese restaurant process (2014) (10)
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005) (2005) (10)
Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories -- Insights from large-scale simulations on realistic input (2019) (10)
Analyzing autoencoder-based acoustic word embeddings (2020) (8)
Inducing a lexicon of sociolinguistic variables from code-mixed text (2018) (8)
Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (2011) (8)
Do Infants Really Learn Phonetic Categories? (2021) (7)
Distributional cues to word segmentation: Context is important (2007) (7)
Improved Acoustic Word Embeddings for Zero-Resource Languages Using Multilingual Transfer (2020) (7)
Exploring the Utility of Joint Morphological and Syntactic Learning from Child-directed Speech (2013) (7)
Training Data Augmentation for Context-Sensitive Neural Lemmatizer Using Inflection Tables and Raw Text (2019) (6)
Conditioning, but on Which Distribution? Grammatical Gender in German Plural Inflection (2020) (6)
Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2005) (6)
Adding Sentence Types to a Model of Syntactic Category Acquisition (2013) (6)
A phonetic model of non-native spoken word processing (2021) (6)
Formalizing Semantic Parsing with Tree Transducers (2011) (6)
Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology (2004) (5)
Interpreting Language in Context in CommandTalk (1999) (5)
Building a Robust Dialogue System with Limited Data (2000) (5)
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2011) (5)
The Role of Context in Neural Pitch Accent Detection in English (2020) (5)
Edinburgh Research Explorer Computational Grammar Acquisition from CHILDES Data Using a Probabilistic Parsing Model (2009) (5)
Predictability effects in adult-directed and infant-directed speech: Does the listener matter? (2011) (5)
Emoji Skin Tone Modifiers (2020) (5)
Black or White but Never Neutral: How Readers Perceive Identity from Yellow or Skin-toned Emoji (2021) (4)
Adaptor Grammars for Unsupervised Paradigm Clustering (2021) (3)
A Note on the Implementation of (2009) (3)
Explorer Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis (2005) (3)
Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (2014) (3)
On the Difficulty of Segmenting Words with Attention (2021) (3)
Edinburgh Research Explorer Data Augmentation for Context-Sensitive Neural Lemmatization Using Inflection Tables and Raw Text (2019) (3)
Combinatory Categorial Grammars for Robust Natural Language Processing (2012) (2)
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 23-24, 2011 (2011) (2)
Non-Parametric Bayesian Models for Computational Morphology (2015) (2)
Identity Signals in Emoji Do not Influence Perception of Factual Truth on Twitter (2021) (2)
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2003, Sapporo, Japan, July 11-12, 2003 (2003) (2)
Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation (2017) (2)
Cross-linguistically Consistent Semantic and Syntactic Annotation of Child-directed Speech (2021) (2)
Proceedings of Communicative Agents Workshop: The Use of Natural Language in Embodied Systems (1999) (1)
AM From babbling to first words : Phonological or lexical selection ? (2020) (1)
Two Decades of Unsupervised POS tagging---How Far Have We Come? (2010) (1)
Analyzing Acoustic Word Embeddings from Pre-trained Self-supervised Speech Models (2022) (1)
Input matters in the modeling of early phonetic learning (2020) (1)
Intro to Bayesian Data Analysis & Cognitive Modeling (2012) (0)
Edinburgh Research Explorer Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation (2018) (0)
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2010, 9-11 October 2010, MIT Stata Center, Massachusetts, USA, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL (2010) (0)
Edinburgh Research Explorer A segmental framework for fully-unsupervised large-vocabulary speech recognition (2017) (0)
INTERSPEECH 2015, 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015 (2015) (0)
Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition (PsychoCompLA 2009) (2009) (0)
Prosodic features improve sentence segmentation and parsing (2023) (0)
Using Sentence Type Information for Syntactic Category Acquisition (2010) (0)
Reviewers, Volume 34 (1991) (0)
ANLP Lecture 23 Syntax/Semantics interface (Semantic analysis) (2015) (0)
Explorer Inducing Compact but Accurate Tree-Substitution Grammars (2009) (0)
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (2007) (0)
Edge-based Best-first Chart Parsing Edge-based Best-first Chart Parsing (1998) (0)
Classifying topics in speech when all you have is crummy translations (2019) (0)
Corpus-Based Optimization of Language Models Derived from Unification Grammars (2000) (0)
Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on the Induction of Linguistic Structure (2012) (0)
Edinburgh Explorer Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis (2017) (0)
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing (2017) (0)
Order Print-on-demand Copies From: Table of Contents Predictions for Self-priming from Incremental Updating Models Unifying Comprehension and Production Pragmatic Alignment on Social Support Type in Health Forum Conversations Fusion of Compositional Network-based and Lexical Function Distributional (0)
USING CROSS-LINGUAL SIDE INFORMATION (2017) (0)
Proceedings of the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development (2010) (0)
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (2013) (0)
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT (2008) (0)
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in NLP (2011) (0)
BOOTSTRAPPING LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 2 1 . 1 Theoretical underpinnings Our model falls under the general umbrella of “ Semantic Bootstrapping ” (2017) (0)
LemMED: Fast and Effective Neural Morphological Analysis with Short Context Windows (2020) (0)
Modeling grammatical gender and plural inflection in German (2020) (0)
Book Reviews: Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition by Afra Alishahi (2011) (0)
Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition Afra Alishahi (University of the Saarland) Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 11), 2010, xiv+93 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-60845-339-9, $40.00; ebook, ISBN 978-1-60845-340-5, $30.00 (2011) (0)
Regularization or lexical probability-matching? How German speakers generalize plural morphology (2022) (0)
Proceedings of the 14th Annual SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology (2016) (0)
Prosodic segmentation for parsing spoken dialogue (2021) (0)
Unsupervised NLP and Human Language Acquisition: Making Connections to Make Progress (2011) (0)
Universal Dependencies and Semantics for English and Hebrew Child-directed Speech (2022) (0)
Language-Agnostic Measures Discriminate Inflection and Derivation (2023) (0)
Edinburgh Research Explorer Priors in Bayesian Learning of Phonological Rules (2017) (0)
ESSEX BUSINESS SCHOOL Financial Crisis and the Silence of the Auditors (2009) (0)
Statically Finding Errors in Spreadsheets (0)
Automatic Conversion of Dialectal Tamil Text to Standard Written Tamil Text Using Fsts Rules, Analogy, and Social Factors Codetermine Past-tense Formation Patterns in English Revisiting Word Neighborhoods for Speech Recognition (0)
Cross-Lingual Topic Prediction For Speech Using Translations (2019) (0)

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