Measuring the Similarity of Grammatical Gender Systems by Comparing Partitions (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | A grammatical gender system divides a lexicon into a small number of fixed categories with fixed usage across speakers. |
| Approach: | They propose to define gender systems extensionally to reduce comparisons to cluster evaluation by comparing pairwise overlaps between gender systems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed measures are based on a phylogenetic tree over extant Indo-European languages. |
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