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    "pk": 28018,
    "title": "An Information-Theoretic Explanation of Adjective Ordering Preferences",
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    "abstract": "Across languages, adjectives are subject to ordering restric-tions. Recent research shows that these are predicted by ad-jective subjectivity, but the question remains open why this isthe case. We first conduct a corpus study and not only replicatethe subjectivity effect, but also find a previously undocumentedeffect of mutual information between adjectives and nouns.We then describe a rational model of adjective use in whichlisteners explicitly reason about judgments made by differentspeakers, formalizing the notion of subjectivity as agreementbetween speakers. We show that, once incremental process-ing is combined with memory limitations, our model predictseffects both of subjectivity and mutual information. We con-firm the adequacy of our model by evaluating it on corpus data,finding that it correctly predicts ordering in unseen data withan accuracy of 96.2 %. This suggests that adjective orderingcan be explained by general principles of human communica-tion and language processing.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hahn",
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            "institution": "Stanford",
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            "first_name": "Judith",
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            "last_name": "Degen",
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            "institution": "Stanford",
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            "first_name": "Noah",
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            "last_name": "Goodman",
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            "institution": "Stanford",
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        {
            "first_name": "Dan",
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            "last_name": "Jurafsky",
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            "institution": "Stanford",
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        {
            "first_name": "Richard",
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            "last_name": "Futrell",
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            "institution": "MIT",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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