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+= Towards the automatic detection of syntactic differences
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+**Author: [https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/martin-kroon Martin Kroon]**, PhD candidate, Leiden University, The Netherlands[[br]]
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+**Tuesday 12:00, November 12, 2019**[[br]]
+**NLP lab, room B203**[[br]]
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+=== Abstract:
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+The field of comparative syntax aims at developing a theoretical model
+of the syntactic properties all languages have in common and of the
+range and limits of syntactic variation. Massive automatic comparison of
+languages in parallel corpora will greatly speed up and enhance the
+development of such a model. In this talk I will discuss previously
+obtained results, as well as briefly touch on future research ideas.
+
+First I will discuss a preprocessing tool that selects parallel sentence
+pairs that are suitable for comparative syntactic research, filtering
+out sentence pairs that are syntactically too different. Results were
+obtained through experiments on Dutch, German and English, and suggest a
+graph edit distance on parse trees yields the best results.
+
+I will furthermore discuss recent results in extracting syntactic
+differences from parallel corpora. We build on Wiersma et al.'s (2011)
+method, and apply the Minimal Description Length Principle in the task.
+After mining for characteristic part-of-speech patterns by compressing
+the data, we extract differences in distribution of found patterns
+between languages. Results were obtained through experiments on Dutch,
+English and Czech, and show useful and meaningful differences, which can
+guide linguists in their comparative syntactic research.