Roger Evans
List of John Benjamins publications for which Roger Evans plays a role.
Articles
2022 Paradigm gaps are associated with weird “distributional semantics” properties: Russian defective nouns and their case and number paradigms Explorations of morphological structure in distributional space, Bell, Melanie J., Juhani Järvikivi and Vito Pirrelli (eds.), pp. 395–421 | Article
This study investigates the phenomenon of defectiveness in Russian case and number noun paradigms from the perspective of distributional semantics. We made use of word embeddings, high-dimensional vectors trained from large text corpora, and compared the observed paradigms of nouns that are… read more
2012 Morphological complexity and unsupervised learning: Validating Russian inflectional classes using high frequency data Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, Kiefer, Ferenc †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds.), pp. 135–162 | Article
This paper addresses the question of whether it is possible to use machine learning techniques on linguistic data to validate linguistic theory. We determine how readily inflectional classes recognized by linguists can be inferred by an unsupervised learning method when it is presented with the… read more