Paula Buttery

About

I am Deputy Head of Department and Professor of Language and Machine Learning in the Department of Computer Science and Technology See my other page for more information. For my publications see acl anthology and scholar.

Selected publications

• Goriely, Z., Caines, A. and Buttery, P., 2025. Word segmentation from transcriptions of child-directed speech using lexical and sub-lexical cues. J Child Lang, v. 52 Doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000491
• Benedetto, L., Cremonesi, P., Caines, A., Buttery, P., Cappelli, A., Giussani, A. and Turrin, R., 2023. A Survey on Recent Approaches to Question Difficulty Estimation from Text ACM Computing Surveys, v. 55 Doi: 10.1145/3556538
• Elliott, M. and Buttery, P., 2022. Non-iterative Conditional Pairwise Estimation for the Rating Scale Model. Educ Psychol Meas, v. 82 Doi: 10.1177/00131644211046253
• Katushemererwe, F., Caines, A. and Buttery, P., 2021. Building natural language processing tools for Runyakitara Applied Linguistics Review, v. 12 Doi: 10.1515/applirev-2020-2004
• Caines, A., Altmann-Richer, E. and Buttery, P., 2019. The cross-linguistic performance of word segmentation models over time. J Child Lang, v. 46 Doi: 10.1017/S0305000919000485
• Caines, A., Pastrana, S., Hutchings, A. and Buttery, PJ., 2018. Automatically identifying the function and intent of posts in underground forums Crime Science, v. 7 Doi: 10.1186/s40163-018-0094-4
• Bentz, C., Alikaniotis, D., Samardžić, T. and Buttery, P., 2017. Variation in Word Frequency Distributions: Definitions, Measures and Implications for a Corpus-Based Language Typology Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, v. 24 Doi: 10.1080/09296174.2016.1265792
• Thwaites, A., Nimmo-Smith, I., Fonteneau, E., Patterson, RD., Buttery, P. and Marslen-Wilson, WD., 2015. Tracking cortical entrainment in neural activity: auditory processes in human temporal cortex. Front Comput Neurosci, v. 9 Doi: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00005
• Bentz, C., Verkerk, A., Kiela, D., Hill, F. and Buttery, P., 2015. Adaptive Communication: Languages with More Non-Native Speakers Tend to Have Fewer Word Forms. PLoS One, v. 10 Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128254
• Bentz, C., Kiela, D., Hill, F. and Buttery, P., 2014. Zipf's law and the grammar of languages: A quantitative study of old and modern English parallel texts Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, v. 10 Doi: 10.1515/cllt-2014-0009