@inproceedings{donicke-etal-2020-real,
    title = "Real-Valued Logics for Typological Universals: Framework and Application",
    author = {D{\"o}nicke, Tillmann  and
      Yu, Xiang  and
      Kuhn, Jonas},
    editor = "Scott, Donia  and
      Bel, Nuria  and
      Zong, Chengqing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/2020.coling-main.353/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.353",
    pages = "3990--4003",
    abstract = "This paper proposes a framework for the expression of typological statements which uses real-valued logics to capture the empirical truth value (truth degree) of a formula on a given data source, e.g. a collection of multilingual treebanks with comparable annotation. The formulae can be arbitrarily complex expressions of propositional logic. To illustrate the usefulness of such a framework, we present experiments on the Universal Dependencies treebanks for two use cases: (i) empirical (re-)evaluation of established formulae against the spectrum of available treebanks and (ii) evaluating new formulae (i.e. potential candidates for universals) generated by a search algorithm."
}