MarsaGram: an excursion in the forests of parsing trees

Philippe Blache, Stéphane Rauzy, Grégoire Montcheuil


Abstract
The question of how to compare languages and more generally the domain of linguistic typology, relies on the study of different linguistic properties or phenomena. Classically, such a comparison is done semi-manually, for example by extracting information from databases such as the WALS. However, it remains difficult to identify precisely regular parameters, available for different languages, that can be used as a basis towards modeling. We propose in this paper, focusing on the question of syntactic typology, a method for automatically extracting such parameters from treebanks, bringing them into a typology perspective. We present the method and the tools for inferring such information and navigating through the treebanks. The approach has been applied to 10 languages of the Universal Dependencies Treebank. We approach is evaluated by showing how automatic classification correlates with language families.
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L16-1370
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
Year:
2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2336–2342
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1370
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Philippe Blache, Stéphane Rauzy, and Grégoire Montcheuil. 2016. MarsaGram: an excursion in the forests of parsing trees. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2336–2342, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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MarsaGram: an excursion in the forests of parsing trees (Blache et al., LREC 2016)
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