A Data-driven Approach to Studying Given Names and their Gender and Ethnicity Associations

Object Naming in Language and Vision: A Survey and a New Dataset

People choose particular names for objects, such as dog or puppy for a given dog. Object naming has been studied in Psycholinguistics, but has received relatively little attention in Computational Linguistics. We review …

Chemical Names Standardization using Neural Sequence to Sequence Model

Chemical information extraction is to convert chemical knowledge in text into true chemical database, which is a text processing task heavily relying on chemical compound name identification and standardization. Once a s…

EVBCorpus - A Multi-Layer English-Vietnamese Bilingual Corpus for Studying Tasks in Comparative Linguistics

Generative Entity-to-Entity Stance Detection with Knowledge Graph Augmentation

Stance detection is typically framed as predicting the sentiment in a given text towards a target entity. However, this setup overlooks the importance of the source entity, i.e., who is expressing the opinion. In this pa…

Personal Names in Modern Turkey

We analyzed the most common 5000 male and 5000 female Turkish names based on their etymological, morphological, and semantic attributes. The name statistics are based on all Turkish citizens who were alive in 2014 and th…