@inproceedings{steuer-etal-2026-evaluating,
    title = "Evaluating the Interplay of Information Status and Information Content in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus",
    author = "Steuer, Julius  and
      Nakai, Toshiki  and
      Dyer, Andrew Thomas  and
      Talamo, Luigi  and
      Verkerk, Annemarie",
    editor = "Vylomova, Ekaterina  and
      Shcherbakov, Andrei  and
      Rani, Priya",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual {NLP}",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-ccl/2026.sigtyp-main.3/",
    pages = "18--25",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-374-6",
    abstract = "The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis postulates that linguistic units are distributed in a text in such a way that the variance around an average information density is minimized. The relationship between information density and information status (IS) is so far underexplored. In this ongoing work, we project IS annotations on the English section of the CIEP+ corpus (Verkerk Talamo 2024) to parallel sections in other languages. We then use the projected annotations to evaluate the relationship between IS and information content in a typologically diverse sample of languages. Our preliminary findings indicate that there is an effect of information status on information density, with the directionality of the effect depending on language and part of speech."
}