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Dr Jonathan Dunn

Contact

Department: Linguistics

Email: jonathan.dunn@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. null

Office: Elsie Locke Building 206

Language: English

How can computational linguistics inform linguistic theory?
About
Research / Creative works
Supervision

Fields of Research

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Syntax
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Language Mapping
  • Text Analytics

Researcher Summary

I am a computational linguist using data science to model both the emergence of grammatical structure and variation in grammatical structure using large multi-lingual corpora. My recent work has also focused on the impact of linguistic variation on computational models and on low-resource contexts. I have published 35 papers and my first book was recently published by Cambridge University Press. My interdisciplinary teaching experience includes a MOOC which has now taught over 12,000 students about natural language processing.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Sciences: Computer Science
  • Languages & Linguistics: Linguistics

Resources

  • GitHub
  • Academic Site
  • Computational Linguistic Atlas
  • MOOC on Computational Linguistics
  • Book: Natural Language Processing for Corpus Linguistics
  • Dunn_CV.pdf

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books
  • Dunn J. (2022) Natural Language Processing for Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009070447.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Dunn J. (2023) Exploring the Constructicon: Linguistic Analysis of a Computational CxG. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP: 1-11.
Journal Articles
  • Dunn J. (2022) Exposure and emergence in usage-based grammar: Computational experiments in 35 languages. Cognitive Linguistics 33(4): 659-699. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0106.
Chapters
  • Dunn J. (2022) Cognitive Linguistics Meets Computational Linguistics: Construction Grammar, Dialectology, and Linguistic Diversity.. In Tay D; Pan MX (Ed.), Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics: Methods and Insights: 273-308.De Gruyter Mouton. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110687279-010.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Dunn J. and Nijhof W. (2022) Language Identification for Austronesian Languages. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: 6530-6539. European Language Resources Association.
  • Dunn J. and Wong S. (2022) Stability of Syntactic Dialect Classification Over Space and Time. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics: 26-36.
  • Dunn J., Li H. and Sastre D. (2022) Predicting Embedding Reliability in Low-Resource Settings Using Corpus Similarity Measures. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: 6461-6470. European Language Resources Association.
Journal Articles
  • Li H. and Dunn J. (2022) Corpus similarity measures remain robust across diverse languages. Lingua http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2022.103377.
  • Li H., Dunn J. and Nini A. (2022) Register variation remains stable across 60 languages. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2021-0090.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Dunn J. (2021) Representations of Language Varieties Are Reliable Given Corpus Similarity Measures. In Proceedings of the EACL 2021 Eighth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects: 28-38. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • Dunn J. and Nini A. (2021) Production vs Perception: The Role of Individuality in Usage-Based Grammar Induction. In Proceedings of the NAACL 2021 Tenth Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics: 149-159. Association for Computational Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.cmcl-1.19.
  • Dunn J. and Tayyar Madabushi H. (2021) Learned Construction Grammars Converge Across Registers Given Increased Exposure. In Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Learning: 268-278. Association for Computational Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.conll-1.21.
Journal Articles
  • Dunn J. (2020) Mapping Languages: The Corpus of Global Language Use. Language Resources and Evaluation http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10579-020-09489-2.
Chapters
  • Dunn J. (2020) Ontological and grammatical constraints on metaphor productivity. Script-Based Semantics: 55-76.De Gruyter Mouton. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501511707-004.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Dunn J. and Adams B. (2020) Geographically-Balanced Gigaword Corpora for 50 Language Varieties. In Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: 2528-2536. European Language Resources Association.
  • Dunn J., Coupe T. and Adams B. (2020) Measuring Linguistic Diversity During COVID-19. In Jurgens D; Volkova S; Bamman D; Hovy D; O'Connor B (Eds). Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science: 1-10. Association for Computational Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcss-1.1.
  • Mohammadhassan N., Mitrovic A., Neshatian K. and Dunn J. (2020) Automatic quality assessment of comments in active video watching using machine learning techniques. In So H-J; Rodrigo MM; Mason J; Mitrovic A (Eds). Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computers in Education I: 1-10. Taiwan: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.
  • Mohammadhassan N., Mitrovic A., Neshatian K. and Dunn J. (2020) Developing personalized nudges to improve quality of comments in active video watching. In ICCE 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computers in Education, Proceedings 2: 766-769.
Journal Articles
  • Dunn J. (2019) Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages: Towards a Computational Dialectology. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Language and Computation 2 15: 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frai.2019.00015.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Dunn J. (2019) Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar. In Chersoni E; Jacobs C; Lenci A; Linzen T; Prévot L; Santus E (Eds). Proceedings of the NAACL 2019 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics: 117-128. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-2913.
  • Dunn J. (2019) Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification. In Zampieri M; Nakov P; Malmasi S; Ljubešic N; Tiedemann J; Ali A (Eds). Proceedings of the NAACL 2019 Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects: 42-53. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-1405.
  • Dunn J. and Adams B. (2019) Mapping Languages and Demographics with Georeferenced Corpora. In Proceedings of GeoComputation 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.9869252.v2.
Journal Articles
  • Dunn J. (2018) Finding variants for construction-based dialectometry: A corpus-based approach to regional CxGs. Cognitive Linguistics 29(2): 275-311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2017-0029.
  • Dunn J. (2018) Multi-unit association measures: Moving beyond pairs of words. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23(2): 183-215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.16098.dun.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Dunn J. (2018) Modeling the Complexity and Descriptive Adequacy of Construction Grammars. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 1(1): 81-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.7275/R59P2ZTB.
Journal Articles
  • Dunn J. (2017) Computational learning of construction grammars. Language and Cognition 9(2): 254-292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.7.
  • Dunn J., Argamon S., Rasooli A. and Kumar G. (2016) Profile-based authorship analysis. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 31(4): 689-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv019.
  • Dunn J. (2015) Modeling Abstractness and Metaphoricity. Metaphor and Symbol 30(4): 259-289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2015.1074801.
  • Dunn J. (2015) Three Types of Metaphoric Utterances That Can Synthesize Theories of Metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol 30(1): 1-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2015.980694.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Dunn J. (2014) Measuring Metaphoricity. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 745-751. Association for Computational Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/P14-2121.
  • Dunn J. (2014) Multi-Dimensional Abstractness in Cross-Domain Mappings. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (ACL 2014): 27-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/W14-2304.
  • Dunn J., Beltran de Heredia J., Burke M., Gandy L., Kanareykin S., Kapah O., Taylor M., Hines D., Frieder O. and Grossman D. (2014) Language-Independent Ensemble Approaches to Metaphor Identification. In Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Workshop on Cognitive Computing for Augmented Human Intelligence (AAAI 2014): 6-12.
Journal Articles
  • Dunn J. (2013) How linguistic structure influences and helps to predict metaphoric meaning. Cognitive Linguistics 24(1): 33-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2013-0002.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Dunn J. (2013) Evaluating the Premises and Results of Four Metaphor Identification Systems. In Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING 2013) 1: 471-486. Heidelberg: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37247-6_38.
  • Dunn J. (2013) What Metaphor Identification Systems Can Tell Us About Metaphor-in-Language. In Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: First Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (NAACL 2013): 1-10.
Journal Articles
  • Dunn J. (2011) Gradient semantic intuitions of metaphoric expressions. Metaphor and Symbol 26(1): 53-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2011.535416.

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