David R. Mortensen

Communicating in Emergent Language with an Induced Morphological Phrasebook ACL 2026 From sunblock to softblock: Analyzing the correlates of neology in published writing and on social media EACL 2026 Happiness is Sharing a Vocabulary: A Study of Transliteration Methods EACL 2026 Harnessing Linguistic Dissimilarity for Language Generalization on Unseen Low-Resource Varieties CoNLL 2026 POWSM: A Phonetic Open Whisper-Style Speech Foundation Model ACL 2026 PRiSM: Benchmarking Phone Realization in Speech Models ACL 2026 DialUp! Modeling the Language Continuum by Adapting Models to Dialects and Dialects to Models ACL 2025 Morpheme Induction for Emergent Language EMNLP 2025 Programming by Example meets Historical Linguistics: A Large Language Model Based Approach to Sound Law Induction ACL 2025 Searching for the Most Human-like Emergent Language EMNLP 2025 The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure IJCNLP 2025 Towards Inclusive ASR: Investigating Voice Conversion for Dysarthric Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages Interspeech 2025 ZIPA: A family of efficient models for multilingual phone recognition ACL 2025 Constructions Are So Difficult That Even Large Language Models Get Them Right for the Wrong Reasons COLING 2024 Improved Neural Protoform Reconstruction via Reflex Prediction COLING 2024 Phonotactic Complexity across Dialects COLING 2024 PWESuite: Phonetic Word Embeddings and Tasks They Facilitate COLING 2024 Self-supervised Speech Representations Still Struggle with African American Vernacular English Interspeech 2024 Verbing Weirds Language (Models): Evaluation of English Zero-Derivation in Five LLMs COLING 2024 ChatGPT MT: Competitive for High- (but Not Low-) Resource Languages EMNLP 2023 Generalized Glossing Guidelines: An Explicit, Human- and Machine-Readable, Item-and-Process Convention for Morphological Annotation ACL 2023 SigMoreFun Submission to the SIGMORPHON Shared Task on Interlinear Glossing ACL 2023 Transformed Protoform Reconstruction ACL 2023 ASR2K: Speech Recognition for Around 2000 Languages without Audio Interspeech 2022 Data-adaptive Transfer Learning for Translation: A Case Study in Haitian and Jamaican COLING 2022 When Is TTS Augmentation Through a Pivot Language Useful? Interspeech 2022 WikiHan: A New Comparative Dataset for Chinese Languages COLING 2022 Cross-Cultural Similarity Features for Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning of Pragmatically Motivated Tasks EACL 2021 Differentiable Allophone Graphs for Language-Universal Speech Recognition Interspeech 2021 Evaluating the Morphosyntactic Well-formedness of Generated Texts EMNLP 2021 Phoneme Recognition Through Fine Tuning of Phonetic Representations: A Case Study on Luhya Language Varieties Interspeech 2021 Tusom2021: A Phonetically Transcribed Speech Dataset from an Endangered Language for Universal Phone Recognition Experiments Interspeech 2021 Automatic Extraction of Rules Governing Morphological Agreement EMNLP 2020 CMU-01 at the SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task on Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology ACL 2019 Adapting Word Embeddings to New Languages with Morphological and Phonological Subword Representations EMNLP 2018 URIEL and lang2vec: Representing languages as typological, geographical, and phylogenetic vectors EACL 2017 Named Entity Recognition for Linguistic Rapid Response in Low-Resource Languages: Sorani Kurdish and Tajik COLING 2016 PanPhon: A Resource for Mapping IPA Segments to Articulatory Feature Vectors COLING 2016