Papers by Philip Georgis
Modeling the Impact of Syntactic Distance and Surprisal on Cross-Slavic Text Comprehension (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Using symmetric measures of insertion, deletion and movement of syntactic units, we investigate phonetic and orthographic asymmetries between selected languages. |
| Approach: | They focus on the syntactic variation and measure syntaktic distances between nine Slavic languages using symmetric measures of insertion, deletion and movement of syntak units in parallel sentences of the fable “The North Wind and the Sun”. |
| Outcome: | The proposed measures are validated on spoken and written cloze tests for Slavic native speakers to determine whether variations in syntax lead to slower or impeded intercomprehension of Slav texts. |