Examining Language Modeling Assumptions Using an Annotated Literary Dialect Corpus

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02674v1
• Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 16:58:21 GMT
• Title: Examining Language Modeling Assumptions Using an Annotated Literary Dialect Corpus
• Authors: Craig Messner, Tom Lippincott,
• Abstract summary: We present a dataset of 19th century American literary orthovariant tokens with a novel layer of human-annotated dialect group tags. We find indications that the "dialect effect" produced by intentional orthographic variation employs multiple linguistic channels.
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• Abstract: We present a dataset of 19th century American literary orthovariant tokens with a novel layer of human-annotated dialect group tags designed to serve as the basis for computational experiments exploring literarily meaningful orthographic variation. We perform an initial broad set of experiments over this dataset using both token (BERT) and character (CANINE)-level contextual language models. We find indications that the "dialect effect" produced by intentional orthographic variation employs multiple linguistic channels, and that these channels are able to be surfaced to varied degrees given particular language modelling assumptions. Specifically, we find evidence showing that choice of tokenization scheme meaningfully impact the type of orthographic information a model is able to surface.

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