Modeling the Impact of Syntactic Distance and Surprisal on Cross-Slavic Text Comprehension

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Irina Stenger, Philip Georgis, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow

We focus on the syntactic variation and measure syntactic distances between nine Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Slovak, Slovene, Russian, and Ukrainian) using symmetric measures of insertion, deletion and movement of syntactic units in the parallel sentences of the fable “The North Wind and the Sun”.

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