@InProceedings{berdicevskis-EtAl:2018:UDW2018,
  author    = {Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs  and  Çöltekin, Çağrı  and  Ehret, Katharina  and  von Prince, Kilu  and  Ross, Daniel  and  Thompson, Bill  and  Yan, Chunxiao  and  Demberg, Vera  and  Lupyan, Gary  and  Rama, Taraka  and  Bentz, Christian},
  title     = {Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018)},
  month     = {November},
  year      = {2018},
  address   = {Brussels, Belgium},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {8--17},
  abstract  = {We evaluate corpus-based measures of linguistic complexity obtained using Universal Dependencies (UD) treebanks. We propose a method of estimating robustness of the complexity values obtained using a given measure and a given treebank. The results indicate that measures of syntactic complexity might be on average less robust than those of morphological complexity. We also estimate the validity of complexity measures by comparing the results for very similar languages and checking for unexpected differences. We show that some of those differences that arise can be diminished by using parallel treebanks and, more importantly from the practical point of view, by harmonizing the language-specific solutions in the UD annotation.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-6002}
}