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The syntactic structure of sentences exhibits a striking regularity: dependencies tend to not cross when drawn above the sentence. We investigate two competing explanations. The traditional hypothesis is that this trend arises from an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

The prefix palindromic length $p_{\mathbf{u}}(n)$ of an infinite word $\mathbf{u}$ is the minimal number of concatenated palindromes needed to express the prefix of length $n$ of $\mathbf{u}$. This function is surprisingly difficult to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Dora V. Bulgakova , Anna E. Frid , Jérémy Scanvic

Counterfactuals have become an important area of interdisciplinary interest, especially in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, decision theory, and even artificial intelligence. In this study, we propose a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Nicholas Kluge Corrêa , Nythamar Fernandes De Oliveira

Cross-Lingual Summarization (CLS) is the task to generate a summary in one language for an article in a different language. Previous studies on CLS mainly take pipeline methods or train the end-to-end model using the translated parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Shuyu Jiang , Dengbiao Tu , Xingshu Chen , Rui Tang , Wenxian Wang , Haizhou Wang

Syntactic parsing, the process of obtaining the internal structure of sentences in natural languages, is a crucial task for artificial intelligence applications that need to extract meaning from natural language text or speech. Sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez , Iago Alonso-Alonso , David Vilares

This paper refers to the syntactic analysis of phrases in Romanian, as an important process of natural language processing. We will suggest a real-time solution, based on the idea of using some words or groups of words that indicate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Bogdan Patrut

Most of the syntax-based metrics obtain the similarity by comparing the sub-structures extracted from the trees of hypothesis and reference. These sub-structures are defined by human and can't express all the information in the trees…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Hui Yu , Xiaofeng Wu , Wenbin Jiang , Qun Liu , ShouXun Lin

In this paper, we present structural abstraction refinement, a novel framework for verifying the threshold problem of probabilistic programs. Our approach represents the structure of a Probabilistic Control-Flow Automaton (PCFA) as a Markov…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Guanyan Li , Juanen Li , Zhilei Han , Peixin Wang , Hongfei Fu , Fei He

Text alignment is crucial to the accuracy of Machine Translation (MT) systems, some NLP tools or any other text processing tasks requiring bilingual data. This research proposes a language independent sentence alignment approach based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Krzysztof Wołk , Krzysztof Marasek

In this chapter we give an overview of the application of complex network theory to quantify some properties of language. Our study is based on two fables in Ukrainian, Mykyta the Fox and Abu-Kasym's slippers. It consists of two parts: the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 Yurij Holovatch , Vasyl Palchykov

We introduce a method for analyzing the complexity of natural language processing tasks, and for predicting the difficulty new NLP tasks. Our complexity measures are derived from the Kolmogorov complexity of a class of automata --- {\it…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wlodek Zadrozny

Human language has a distinct systematic structure, where utterances break into individually meaningful words which are combined to form phrases. We show that natural-language-like systematicity arises in codes that are constrained by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Richard Futrell , Michael Hahn

Sentence Pattern Structure (SPS) parsing is a syntactic analysis method primarily employed in language teaching.Existing SPS parsers rely heavily on textbook corpora for training, lacking cross-domain capability.To overcome this constraint,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jingsi Yu , Cunliang Kong , Liner Yang , Meishan Zhang , Lin Zhu , Yujie Wang , Haozhe Lin , Maosong Sun , Erhong Yang

The Chapter starts with introductory information about quantitative linguistics notions, like rank--frequency dependence, Zipf's law, frequency spectra, etc. Similarities in distributions of words in texts with level occupation in quantum…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-01-04 Andrij Rovenchak

Traces and their extension called combined traces (comtraces) are two formal models used in the analysis and verification of concurrent systems. Both models are based on concepts originating in the theory of formal languages, and they are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Lukasz Mikulski

Logic languages based on the theory of rational, possibly infinite, trees have much appeal in that rational trees allow for faster unification (due to the safe omission of the occurs-check) and increased expressivity (cyclic terms can…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Roberto Bagnara , Roberta Gori , Patricia M. Hill , Enea Zaffanella

Language interference is common in today's multilingual societies where more languages are being in contact and as a global final result leads to the creation of hybrid languages. These, together with doubts on their right to be officially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Nataliya Sira , Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio , Viviana Nosilia

Dependency syntax represents the structure of a sentence as a tree composed of dependencies, i.e., directed relations between lexical units. While in its more general form any such tree is allowed, in practice many are not plausible or are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Gómez-Rodríguez , Carlos , Alemany-Puig , Lluís

Written language is complex. A written text can be considered an attempt to convey a meaningful message which ends up being constrained by language rules, context dependence and highly redundant in its use of resources. Despite all these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-20 E. Estevez-Rams , A. Mesa Rodriguez , D. Estevez-Moya

This paper studies a version of the counting problem in dynamical systems that is of interest, especially in conformal dynamical systems where the functions of the systems are angle preserving. Recently, M. Pollicott and M. Urba\'{n}ski…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Hamid Naderiyan