Linguistic Problems on Number Names

Ivan Derzhanski, Milena Veneva


Abstract
This paper presents a contrastive investigation of linguistic problems based on number names in different languages and intended for secondary-school students. We examine the eight problems of this type that have been assigned at the International Linguistics Olympiad throughout the years and compare the phenomena in the number systems featured there with those of the working languages of the Olympiad and other languages known to be familiar to the participants. On the basis of a statistical analysis of the results achieved by the contestants we draw conclusions regarding the ways in which the difficulty of a problem depends on its structure and the kinds of linguistic phenomena featured in it.
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2018.clib-1.21
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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2018)
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May
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2018
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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169–176
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Ivan Derzhanski and Milena Veneva. 2018. Linguistic Problems on Number Names. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2018), pages 169–176, Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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