BibTeX

@inProceedings{berdicevskis-etal-2018-using-286919,
	title        = {Using Universal Dependencies in cross-linguistic complexity research},
	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.},
	booktitle    = {Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018), 8–17},
	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},
	year         = {2018},
	publisher    = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}