A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications

Details A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications

2009-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/0907.0785v1

ACL 2007

Computer Science

Computation and Language

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A standard form of analysis for linguistic typology is the universal implication. These implications state facts about the range of extant languages, such as ``if objects come after verbs, then adjectives come after nouns.'' Such implications are typically discovered by painstaking hand analysis over a small sample of languages. We propose a computational model for assisting at this process. Our model is able to discover both well-known implications as well as some novel implications that deserve further study. Moreover, through a careful application of hierarchical analysis, we are able to cope with the well-known sampling problem: languages are not independent.

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