no code implementations • 29 Apr 2024 • Sidharth Ranjan, Titus von der Malsburg
Dependency length minimization is a universally observed quantitative property of natural languages.
no code implementations • 22 Apr 2023 • Sidharth Ranjan, Titus von der Malsburg
Additionally, for the task of distinguishing corpus sentences from counterfactual variants, we find that the dependency length and constituent length of the constituent closest to the main verb are much better predictors of whether a sentence appeared in the corpus than total dependency length.