Jennifer Hay

Also published as: Jennifer B. Hay


2022

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Unsupervised morphological segmentation in a language with reduplication
Simon Todd | Annie Huang | Jeremy Needle | Jennifer Hay | Jeanette King
Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

We present an extension of the Morfessor Baseline model of unsupervised morphological segmentation (Creutz and Lagus, 2007) that incorporates abstract templates for reduplication, a typologically common but computationally underaddressed process. Through a detailed investigation that applies the model to Maori, the ̄ Indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand, we show that incorporating templates improves Morfessor’s ability to identify instances of reduplication, and does so most when there are multiple minimally-overlapping templates. We present an error analysis that reveals important factors to consider when applying the extended model and suggests useful future directions.

2014

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Rules, Analogy, and Social Factors Codetermine Past-tense Formation Patterns in English
Péter Rácz | Clayton Beckner | Jennifer B. Hay | Janet B. Pierrehumbert
Proceedings of the 2014 Joint Meeting of SIGMORPHON and SIGFSM

2012

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Using a large annotated historical corpus to study word-specific effects in sound change
Jennifer Hay
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2012

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LaBB-CAT: an Annotation Store
Robert Fromont | Jennifer Hay
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2012