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.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.coling-main.353
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Barcelona, Spain (Online)
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3990–4003
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.353
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.353
- Cite (ACL):
- Tillmann Dönicke, Xiang Yu, and Jonas Kuhn. 2020. Real-Valued Logics for Typological Universals: Framework and Application. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3990–4003, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Real-Valued Logics for Typological Universals: Framework and Application (Dönicke et al., COLING 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/remove-xml-comments/2020.coling-main.353.pdf
- Data
- Universal Dependencies