Publications

David Mortensen's publications including all publications with other members of ChangeLing Lab.

2026

  1. Interspeech
    An Empirical Recipe for Universal Phone Recognition
    Shikhar Bharadwaj, Chin-Jou Li, Kwanghee Choi, and 4 more authors
    In Interspeech 2026
  2. Interspeech
    Scaling Self-Supervised Speech Models Uncovers Deep Linguistic Relationships: Evidence from the Pacific Cluster
    Minu Kim, Hoirin Kim, and David R Mortensen
    In Interspeech 2026
  3. Interspeech
    Adapting Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Cross-lingual Dysarthria Detection in Parkinson’s Disease
    Abner Hernandez, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi, and 12 more authors
    In Interspeech 2026
  4. Self-supervised speech models encode phonetic context via position-dependent orthogonal subspaces
    Kwanghee Choi, Eunjung Yeo, Cheol Jun Cho, and 2 more authors
  5. LM4UC
    Harnessing Linguistic Dissimilarity for Language Generalization on Unseen Low-Resource Varieties
    Jinju Kim, Haeji Jung, Youjeong Roh, and 2 more authors
    In Second Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC)
  6. ACL
    Communicating in Emergent Language with an Induced Morphological Phrasebook
    Brendon Boldt, and David R. Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  7. ACL
    PRiSM: Benchmarking Phone Realization in Speech Models
    Shikhar Bharadwaj, Chin-Jou Li, Yoonjae Kim, and 13 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  8. ACL
    POWSM: A Phonetic Open Whisper-Style Speech Foundation Model
    Chin-Jou Li, Kalvin Chang, Shikhar Bharadwaj, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  9. ACL Findings
    [b] = [d] - [t] + [p]: Self-supervised Speech Models Discover Phonological Vector Arithmetic
    Kwanghee Choi, Eunjung Yeo, Cheol Jun Cho, and 2 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
  10. ACL Findings
    Linear Script Representations in Speech Foundation Models Enable Zero-Shot Transliteration
    Ryan Soh-Eun Shim, Kwanghee Choi, Kalvin Chang, and 8 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
  11. ACL Findings
    PBEBench: A Multi-Step Programming by Examples Reasoning Benchmark inspired by Historical Linguistics
    Atharva Naik,  Prakam, Yash Mathur, and 6 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
  12. LChange
    From sunblock to softblock: Analyzing the correlates of neology in published writing and on social media
    Maria Ryskina, Matthew R. Gormley, Kyle Mahowald, and 3 more authors
    In The Proceedings for the 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change (LChange’26)
  13. EACL
    Happiness is Sharing a Vocabulary: A Study of Transliteration Methods
    Haeji Jung, Jinju Kim, Kyungjin Kim, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2025

  1. IJCNLP-AACL
    The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure
    Niyati Bafna, Tianjian Li, Kenton Murray, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  2. EMNLP
    Morpheme Induction for Emergent Language
    Brendon Boldt, and David R. Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  3. EMNLP
    Searching for the Most Human-like Emergent Language
    Brendon Boldt, and David R. Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  4. EMBC
    Domain-Specific Multilingual Strategies for Medical NLP: A Cross-Lingual Analysis of Orthographic and Phonemic Representations
    Kyungjin Kim, Jinju Kim, Haeji Jung, and 2 more authors
    In 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
  5. ACL
    ZIPA: A family of efficient models for multilingual phone recognition
    Jian Zhu, Farhan Samir, Eleanor Chodroff, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  6. ACL
    DialUp! Modeling the Language Continuum by Adapting Models to Dialects and Dialects to Models
    Niyati Bafna, Emily Chang, Nathaniel Romney Robinson, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  7. ACL
    Programming by Example meets Historical Linguistics: A Large Language Model Based Approach to Sound Law Induction
    Atharva Naik, Darsh Agrawal, Hong Sng, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  8. NAACL
    Leveraging Allophony in Self-Supervised Speech Models for Atypical Pronunciation Assessment
    Kwanghee Choi, Eunjung Yeo, Kalvin Chang, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  9. PNAS
    Derivational morphology reveals analogical generalization in large language models
    Valentin Hofmann, Leonie Weissweiler, David R Mortensen, and 2 more authors
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  10. Interspeech
    Towards Inclusive ASR: Investigating Voice Conversion for Dysarthric Speech Recognition in Low-Resource Languages
    Chin-Jou Li, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi, and 7 more authors
    In Interspeech 2025

2024

  1. Interspeech
    Self-supervised Speech Representations Still Struggle with African American Vernacular English
    Kalvin Chang, Yi-Hui Chou, Jiatong Shi, and 4 more authors
    In Proc. INTERSPEECH 2024
  2. Can Large Language Models Code Like a Linguist?: A Case Study in Low Resource Sound Law Induction
    Atharva Naik, Kexun Zhang, Nathaniel Robinson, and 7 more authors
  3. Neural Proto-Language Reconstruction
    Chenxuan Cui, Ying Chen, Qinxin Wang, and 1 more author
  4. EMNLP
    Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual NER Using Phonemic Representations for Low-Resource Languages
    Jimin Sohn, Haeji Jung, Alex Cheng, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  5. ACL
    Semisupervised Neural Proto-Language Reconstruction
    Liang Lu, Peirong Xie, and David Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  6. TMLR
    A Review of the Applications of Deep Learning-Based Emergent Communication
    Brendon Boldt, and David R. Mortensen
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research
  7. LREC-COLING
    Constructions Are So Difficult That Even Large Language Models Get Them Right for the Wrong Reasons
    Shijia Zhou, Leonie Weissweiler, Taiqi He, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
  8. LREC-COLING
    Improved Neural Protoform Reconstruction via Reflex Prediction
    Liang Lu, Jingzhi Wang, and David R. Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
  9. LREC-COLING
    Phonotactic Complexity across Dialects
    Ryan Soh-Eun Shim, Kalvin Chang, and David R. Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
  10. LREC-COLING
    PWESuite: Phonetic Word Embeddings and Tasks They Facilitate
    Vilém Zouhar, Kalvin Chang, Chenxuan Cui, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
  11. LREC-COLING
    Verbing Weirds Language (Models): Evaluation of English Zero-Derivation in Five LLMs
    David R. Mortensen, Valentina Izrailevitch, Yunze Xiao, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
  12. NAACL
    XferBench: a Data-Driven Benchmark for Emergent Language
    Brendon Boldt, and David Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2023

  1. Kuki-Chin Phonology: An Overview
    David R Mortensen
    Himalayan Linguistics
  2. ASRU
    Evaluating self-supervised speech models on a Taiwanese Hokkien corpus
    Yi-Hui Chou, Kalvin Chang, Meng-Ju Wu, and 8 more authors
    In 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)
  3. AfricaNLP
    African Substrates Rather Than European Lexifiers to Augment African-diaspora Creole Translation
    Nathaniel Romney Robinson, Matthew Dean Stutzman, Stephen D. Richardson, and 1 more author
    In 4th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing
  4. LChange
    Automating Sound Change Prediction for Phylogenetic Inference: A Tukanoan Case Study
    Kalvin Chang, Nathaniel Robinson, Anna Cai, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
  5. WMT
    ChatGPT MT: Competitive for High- (but Not Low-) Resource Languages
    Nathaniel Robinson, Perez Ogayo, David R. Mortensen, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation
  6. EMNLP
    Do All Languages Cost the Same? Tokenization in the Era of Commercial Language Models
    Orevaoghene Ahia, Sachin Kumar, Hila Gonen, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  7. EMNLP
    Counting the Bugs in ChatGPT’s Wugs: A Multilingual Investigation into the Morphological Capabilities of a Large Language Model
    Leonie Weissweiler, Valentin Hofmann, Anjali Kantharuban, and 10 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  8. EMNLP Findings
    Calibrated Seq2seq Models for Efficient and Generalizable Ultra-fine Entity Typing
    Yanlin Feng, Adithya Pratapa, and David Mortensen
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
  9. CxGs+NLP
    Construction Grammar Provides Unique Insight into Neural Language Models
    Leonie Weissweiler, Taiqi He, Naoki Otani, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)
  10. ACL
    Transformed Protoform Reconstruction
    Young Min Kim, Kalvin Chang, Chenxuan Cui, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
  11. SIGMORPHON
    Generalized Glossing Guidelines: An Explicit, Human- and Machine-Readable, Item-and-Process Convention for Morphological Annotation
    David R. Mortensen, Ela Gulsen, Taiqi He, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 20th SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
  12. SIGMORPHON
    SigMoreFun Submission to the SIGMORPHON Shared Task on Interlinear Glossing
    Taiqi He, Lindia Tjuatja, Nathaniel Robinson, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 20th SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
  13. TSD
    Multilingual TTS Accent Impressions for Accented ASR
    Georgios Karakasidis, Nathaniel Robinson, Yaroslav Getman, and 6 more authors
    In International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue

2022

  1. LoResMT
    Data-adaptive Transfer Learning for Translation: A Case Study in Haitian and Jamaican
    Nathaniel Robinson, Cameron Hogan, Nancy Fulda, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2022)
  2. COLING
    WikiHan: A New Comparative Dataset for Chinese Languages
    Kalvin Chang, Chenxuan Cui, Youngmin Kim, and 1 more author
    In COLING 2022
  3. Interspeech
    When Is TTS Augmentation Through a Pivot Language Useful?
    Nathaniel Romney Robinson, Perez Ogayo, Swetha R. Gangu, and 2 more authors
    In Interspeech 2022
  4. Interspeech
    Speech Recognition for Around 2000 Languages without Audio
    Xinjian Li, Florian Metze, David R. Mortensen, and 2 more authors
    In Interspeech 2022
  5. Interspeech
    ASR2K: Speech Recognition for Around 2000 Languages without Audio
    Xinjian Li, Florian Metze, David R. Mortensen, and 2 more authors
    In Interspeech 2022
  6. LREC
    A Hmong Corpus with Elaborate Expression Annotations
    David R. Mortensen, Xinyu Zhang, Chenxuan Cui, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)
  7. LREC
    Phone Inventories and Recognition for Every Language
    Xinjian Li, Florian Metze, David R. Mortensen, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)
  8. Large-Scale Computerized Forward Reconstruction Yields New Perspectives in French Diachronic Phonology
    Clayton Marr, and David Mortensen
    Diachronica
  9. Wfst4Str
    David R. Mortensen
    Rust/Python library for working with strings using weighted finite state transducers
  10. ACL Findings
    Zero-shot Learning for Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion with Language Ensemble
    Xinjian Li, Florian Metze, David Mortensen, and 2 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022
  11. NAACL
    Learning the Ordering of Coordinate Compounds and Elaborate Expressions in Hmong, Lahu, and Chinese
    Chenxuan Cui, Katherine Zhang, and David Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2021

  1. TACL
    Quantifying Cognitive Factors in Lexical Decline
    David Francis, Ella Rabinovich, Farhan Samir, and 2 more authors
    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  2. ICASSP
    Multilingual phonetic dataset for low resource speech recognition
    Xinjian Li, David R Mortensen, Florian Metze, and 1 more author
    In ICASSP 2021
  3. East Tusom: A phonetic and phonological sketch of a largely undocumented Tangkhulic language
    David R. Mortensen, and Jordan Picone
  4. Interspeech
    Tusom2021: A Phonetically Transcribed Speech Dataset from an Endangered Language for Universal Phone Recognition Experiments
    David R. Mortensen, Jordan Picone, Xinjian Li, and 1 more author
    In Proc. Interspeech 2021
  5. Interspeech
    Phoneme Recognition Through Fine Tuning of Phonetic Representations: A Case Study on Luhya Language Varieties
    Kathleen Siminyu, Xinjian Li, Antonios Anastasopoulos, and 3 more authors
    In Proc. Interspeech 2021
  6. Interspeech
    Differentiable Allophone Graphs for Language-Universal Speech Recognition
    Brian Yan, Siddharth Dalmia, David R. Mortensen, and 2 more authors
    In Proc. Interspeech 2021
  7. EMNLP
    Evaluating the Morphosyntactic Well-formedness of Generated Texts
    Adithya Pratapa, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Shruti Rijhwani, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  8. EACL
    Ranking Transfer Languages with Pragmatically-Motivated Features for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis
    Jimin Sun, Hwijeen Ahn, Chan Young Park, and 2 more authors
    In EACL 2021

2020

  1. EMNLP
    Automatic Extraction of Rules Governing Morphological Agreement
    Aditi Chaudhary, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Adithya Pratapa, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  2. AAAI
    Towards Zero-shot Learning for Automatic Phonemic Transcription
    Xinjian Li, Siddharth Dalmia, David R. Mortensen, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  3. ICASSP
    Universal Phone Recognition with a Multilingual Allophone System
    Xinjian Li, Siddharth Dalmia, Juncheng Li, and 8 more authors
    In ICASSP 2020
  4. Computerized Forward Reconstruction for Analysis in Diachronic Phonology, and Latin to French Reflex Prediction
    Clayton Marr, and David R. Mortensen
    In 1st Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA)
  5. Characterizing Sociolinguistic Variation in the Competing Vaccination Communities
    Shahan Ali Memon, Aman Tyagi, David R. Mortensen, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the International Conference SBP-BRiMS 2020
  6. LREC
    AlloVera: A Multilingual Allophone Database
    David R. Mortensen, Xinjian Li, Patrick Littell, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)
  7. SCiL
    Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods
    Maria Ryskina, Ella Rabinovich, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics

2019

  1. SIGMORPHON
    CMU-01 at the SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task on Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology
    Aditi Chaudhary, Elizabeth Salesky, Gayatri Bhat, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
    Abs
  2. Hmong (Mong Leng)
    David R. Mortensen
    In The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area
  3. IndoMorph
    David R. Mortensen, and Jong Hyuk Park
    Collection of Foma FST morphological analyzers for languages of the Indian subcontinent

2018

  1. EMNLP
    Adapting Word Embeddings to New Languages with Morphological and Phonological Subword Representations
    Aditi Chaudhary, Chunting Zhou, Lori Levin, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  2. The ARIEL-CMU situation frame detection pipeline for LoReHLT16: a model translation approach
    Patrick Littell, Tian Tian, Ruochen Xu, and 12 more authors
    Machine Translation
  3. Epitran
    David R. Mortensen
    Precision orthography-to-IPA conversion for 65 languages
  4. MStem
    David R. Mortensen
    Python multilingual morphological stemming framework and stemmer collection
  5. LREC
    Parser combinators for Tigrinya and Oromo morphology
    Patrick Littell, Tom McCoy, Na-Rae Han, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
  6. LREC
    Epitran: Precision G2P for Many Languages
    David R. Mortensen, Siddharth Dalmia, and Patrick Littell
    In Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

2017

  1. EACL
    URIEL and lang2vec: Representing languages as typological, geographical, and phylogenetic vectors
    Patrick Littell, David R. Mortensen, Ke Lin, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
  2. Hmong-Mien Languages
    David R. Mortensen
    In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics
  3. Hmong-Mien Languages
    David R. Mortensen
    In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics

2016

  1. EMNLP
    Phonologically Aware Neural Model for Named Entity Recognition in Low Resource Transfer Settings
    Akash Bharadwaj, David Mortensen, Chris Dyer, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
  2. LREC
    Bridge-Language Capitalization Inference in Western Iranian: Sorani, Kurmanji, Zazaki, and Tajik
    Patrick Littell, David R. Mortensen, Kartik Goyal, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)
  3. COLING
    Named Entity Recognition for Linguistic Rapid Response in Low-Resource Languages: Sorani Kurdish and Tajik
    Patrick Littell, Kartik Goyal, David R. Mortensen, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
  4. COLING
    PanPhon: A Resource for Mapping IPA Segments to Articulatory Feature Vectors
    David R. Mortensen, Patrick Littell, Akash Bharadwaj, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
  5. PanPhon
    David R. Mortensen
    Articulatory feature extractor and library
  6. NAACL
    Polyglot Neural Language Models: A Case Study in Cross-Lingual Phonetic Representation Learning
    Yulia Tsvetkov, Sunayana Sitaram, Manaal Faruqui, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2013

  1. Lexical Prefixes and Tibeto-Burman Laryngeal Contrasts
    David R. Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 37)
  2. A Reconstruction of Proto-Tangkhulic Rhymes
    David R. Mortensen, and James A. Miller
    Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
  3. Tonally Conditioned Vowel Raising in Shuijingping Mang
    David R. Mortensen
    Journal of East Asian Linguistics

2012

  1. Sorbung, an Undescribed Language of Manipur: Its Phonology and Place in Tibeto-Burman
    David R. Mortensen, and Jennifer Keogh
    Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
  2. The Emergence of Obstruents after High Vowels
    David R. Mortensen
    Diachronica
  3. NetSPE
    David R. Mortensen
    A web-based application for exploring rule-based analyses of phonological data
  4. A Classification of Compounding in American Sign Language: an Evaluation of the Bisetto and Scalise Framework
    Mary Lou Vercellotti, and David R. Mortensen
    Morphology

2011

  1. HsSPE
    David R. Mortensen
    Haskell library implementing SPE-style rule-based phonology
  2. Web Comparator
    David R. Mortensen
    A web-based application for organizing and analyzing comparative lexical databases. Used in the production of “Emergence of Obstruents” and “Proto-Tangkhulic Rhymes”

2004

  1. The emergence of dorsal stops after high vowels in Huishu
    David R. Mortensen
    In Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 30)

2003

  1. Review of \emphBaheng Yu Yanjiu [research on the Pa-Hng language] by Mao Zongwu and Li Yunbing
    David R. Mortensen
    Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area

2002

  1. Review of \emphLes langue Hmong-Mjen: phonologie historique by Barbara Niederer
    David R. Mortensen
    Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area