Morphological Family Expansion Prediction (MFEP)

This repository contains the code and data for the ACL paper Predicting the Growth of Morphological Families from Social and Linguistic Factors. The paper introduces the task of Morphological Family Expansion Prediction (MFEP) as predicting the increase in the size of a morphological family.

Dependencies

The code requires Python>=3.5, pickle, numpy, pandas, scipy, and sklearn.

Usage

To replicate all experiments from the paper, run run_models.sh in src/model.

To replicate the main experiment, run model_main.py in src/model.

Citation

If you use the code or data in this repository, please cite the following paper:

@inproceedings{hofmann2020mfep,
    title = {Predicting the Growth of Morphological Families from Social and Linguistic Factors},
    author = {Hofmann, Valentin and Pierrehumbert, Janet and Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
    year = {2020}
}