Towards a Map of the Syntactic Similarity of Languages

In this paper we propose a computational method for determining the syntactic similarity between languages. We investigate multiple approaches and metrics, showing that the results are consistent across methods. We report results on 16 languages belonging to various language families. The analysis t...

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Published inComputational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing pp. 576 - 590
Main Authors Ciobanu, Alina Maria, Dinu, Liviu P., Sgarro, Andrea
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
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Summary:In this paper we propose a computational method for determining the syntactic similarity between languages. We investigate multiple approaches and metrics, showing that the results are consistent across methods. We report results on 16 languages belonging to various language families. The analysis that we conduct is adaptable to any languages, as far as resources are available.
ISBN:3319771124
9783319771120
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-77113-7_44