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JQL
2008
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Dependency-length minimization in natural and artificial languages
A wide range of evidence points to a preference for syntactic structures in which dependencies are short. Here we examine the question: what kinds of dependency configurations min...
David Temperley
COGSCI
2010
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Do Grammars Minimize Dependency Length?
A well-established principle of language is that there is a preference for closely related words to be close together in the sentence. This can be expressed as a preference for de...
Daniel Gildea, David Temperley
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ACL
2007
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Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length
We examine the problem of choosing word order for a set of dependency trees so as to minimize total dependency length. We present an algorithm for computing the optimal layout of ...
Daniel Gildea, David Temperley