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author = "Kahane, Sylvain and
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Gerdes, Kim",
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month = mar,
year = "2023",
address = "Washington, D.C.",
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abstract = "This paper introduces a typometric measure of flexibility, which quantifies the variability of head-dependent word order on the whole set of treebanks of a language or on specific constructions. The measure is based on the notion of head-initiality and we show that it can be computed for all of languages of the Universal Dependency treebank set, that it does not require ad-hoc thresholds to categorize languages or constructions, and that it can be applied with any granularity of constructions and languages. We compare our results with Bakker{'}s (1998) categorical flexibility index. Typometric flexibility is shown to be a good measure for characterizing the language distribution with respect to word order for a given construction, and for estimating whether a construction predicts the global word order behavior of a language.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Word order flexibility: a typometric study](https://aclanthology.org/2023.depling-1.7) (Kahane et al., DepLing-SyntaxFest 2023)
ACL
- Sylvain Kahane, Ziqian Peng, and Kim Gerdes. 2023. Word order flexibility: a typometric study. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023), pages 68–80, Washington, D.C.. Association for Computational Linguistics.