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SUMMARY:**CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vo
 wel Inventories - Ryan Cotterell\, NLIP\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20190125T120000Z
DTEND:20190125T130000Z
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CONTACT:Andrew Caines
DESCRIPTION:Linguistic typology studies the range of structures present in
  human language. The main goal of the field is to discover which sets of p
 ossible phenomena are universal\, and which are merely frequent. For examp
 le\, all languages have vowels\, while most—but not all—languages have
  an [u] sound. In this paper we present the first probabilistic treatment 
 of a basic question in phonological typology: What makes a natural vowel i
 nventory? We introduce a series of deep stochastic point processes\, and c
 ontrast them with previous computational\, simulation-based approaches. We
  provide a comprehensive suite of experiments on over 200 distinct languag
 es.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
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