To Drop or Not to Drop? Predicting Argument Ellipsis Judgments: A Case Study in Japanese

arXiv:2404.11315v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Speakers sometimes omit certain arguments of a predicate in a sentence; such omission is especially frequent in pro-drop languages. This study addresses a question about ellipsis -- what can explain the native speakers' ellipsis decisions? -- motivated by the interest in human discourse processing and writing assistance for this choice. To this end, we first collect large-scale human annotations of whether and why a particular argument should be omitted across over 2,000 data points in …

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