A Multi-Dialectal, Longitudinal Corpus of Human-AI Hybrid Language Production

Gan, Q.; Dunn, J.; Nini, A.; & Adams, B. (2026). “A Multi-Dialectal, Longitudinal Corpus of Human-AI Hybrid Language Production.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. ERLA. Abstract. This paper describes a multi-dialectal, longitudinal corpus of human-AI hybrid language production, which includes purely human-produced samples, purely LLM-generated samples, and hybrid samples … More A Multi-Dialectal, Longitudinal Corpus of Human-AI Hybrid Language Production

How register and region shape the language network

Morin, C.; Coats, S.; & Dunn, J. (2026). “How register and region shape the language network: Evidence from Computational Construction Grammar.” Constructions, 18(1). Abstract. While Construction Grammar has proven effective at modelling regional and register variation separately, it has seldom been used to explore the interaction between the two. The present paper fills this gap … More How register and region shape the language network

LLMs Learn Constructions That Humans Do Not Know

Dunn, J. and Eida, M. (2025). “LLMs Learn Constructions That Humans Do Not Know.” In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP. Abstract. This paper investigates false positive constructions: grammatical structures which an LLM hallucinates as distinct constructions but which human introspection does not support. Both a behavioural probing task using … More LLMs Learn Constructions That Humans Do Not Know

Diffusion Across the Grammar: Complexity in Areal Interactions Between Dialects of English

Dunn, J. (2025). “Diffusion Across the Grammar: Complexity in Areal Interactions Between Dialects of English.” In Enrique-Arias, Andrés, Carlota de Benito Moreno and Florencio del Barrio de la Rosa (eds.). The spatial diffusion of linguistic changes: new methods and theoretical perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter. Studies in Language Change 26. Abstract. This paper experiments with the … More Diffusion Across the Grammar: Complexity in Areal Interactions Between Dialects of English

Language Contact and Population Contact as Sources of Dialect Similarity

Dunn, J. and Wong, S. (2025). “Language Contact and Population Contact as Sources of Dialect Similarity.” Languages, 10(8), 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10080188 Abstract. This paper creates a global similarity network between city-level dialects of English in order to determine whether external factors like the amount of population contact or language contact influence dialect similarity. While previous computational … More Language Contact and Population Contact as Sources of Dialect Similarity

Pre-Trained Language Models Represent Some Geographic Populations Better Than Others

Dunn, J.; Adams, B.; and Tayyar Madabushi, H. (2023). “Pre-Trained Language Models Represent Some Geographic Populations Better Than Others.” In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC/COLING 2024). 12966–12976 Abstract. This paper measures the skew in how well two families of LLMs represent diverse geographic populations. A spatial … More Pre-Trained Language Models Represent Some Geographic Populations Better Than Others

Geographically-Informed Language Identification

Dunn, J. and Edwards-Brown, L. (2024). Geographically-Informed Language Identification. In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC/COLING 2024). 7672–7682. Abstract. This paper develops an approach to language identification in which the set of languages considered by the model depends on the geographic origin of the text in question. … More Geographically-Informed Language Identification

Validating and Exploring Large Geographic Corpora

Dunn, J. (2024). “Validating and Exploring Large Geographic Corpora.” In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC/COLING 2024). 17348–17358. Abstract. This paper investigates the impact of corpus creation decisions on large multi-lingual geographic web corpora. Beginning with a 427 billion word corpus derived from the Common Crawl, three … More Validating and Exploring Large Geographic Corpora

Syntactic Variation Across the Grammar: Modelling a complex adaptive system

Dunn, J. (2023). “Syntactic variation across the grammar: modelling a complex adaptive system.” Frontiers in Complex Systems. DOI: 10.3389/fcpxs.2023.1273741 Abstract. While language is a complex adaptive system, most work on syntactic variation observes a few individual constructions in isolation from the rest of the grammar. This means that the grammar, a network which connects thousands … More Syntactic Variation Across the Grammar: Modelling a complex adaptive system

Variation and Instability in Dialect-Based Embedding Spaces

Dunn, J. (2023). “Variation and Instability in Dialect-Based Embedding Spaces.” In Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects. Association for Computational Linguistics. Abstract. This paper measures variation in embedding spaces which have been trained on different regional varieties of English while controlling for instability in the embeddings. While previous work … More Variation and Instability in Dialect-Based Embedding Spaces