Jean-Pierre Koenig

Also published as: Jean-pierre Koenig


2024

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Fitting a Square Peg into a Round Hole: Creating a UniMorph dataset of Kanien’kéha Verbs
Anna Kazantseva | Akwiratékha Martin | Karin Michelson | Jean-Pierre Koenig
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages

This paper describes efforts to annotate a dataset of verbs in the Iroquoian language Kanien’kéha (a.k.a. Mohawk) using the UniMorph schema (Batsuren et al. 2022a). It is based on the output of a symbolic model - a hand-built verb conjugator. Morphological constituents of each verb are automatically annotated with UniMorph tags. Overall the process was smooth but some central features of the language did not fall neatly into the schema which resulted in a large number of custom tags and a somewhat ad hoc mapping process. We think the same difficulties are likely to arise for other Iroquoian languages and perhaps other North American language families. This paper describes our decision making process with respect to Kanien’kéha and reports preliminary results of morphological induction experiments using the dataset.

2022

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When Polysemy Matters: Modeling Semantic Categorization with Word Embeddings
Elizabeth Soper | Jean-pierre Koenig
Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

Recent work using word embeddings to model semantic categorization have indicated that static models outperform the more recent contextual class of models (Majewska et al, 2021). In this paper, we consider polysemy as a possible confounding factor, comparing sense-level embeddings with previously studied static embeddings on both coarse- and fine-grained categorization tasks. We find that the effect of polysemy depends on how one defines semantic categorization; while sense-level embeddings dramatically outperform static embeddings in predicting coarse-grained categories derived from a word sorting task, they perform approximately equally in predicting fine-grained categories derived from context-free similarity judgments. Our findings highlight the different processes underlying human behavior on different types of semantic tasks.

2015

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Event Categorization beyond Verb Senses
Aron Marvel | Jean-Pierre Koenig
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Multiword Expressions

1996

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Book Reviews: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and German in Head-driven Phrase-structure Grammar
Jean-Pierre Koenig
Computational Linguistics, Volume 22, Number 1, March 1996