Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2016
Abstract
This paper compares various means of measur- ing of word order freedom applied to data from syntactically annotated corpora for 23 languages. The corpora are part of the HamleDT project, the word order statistics are relative frequencies of all word order combinations of subject, predicate and object both in main and subordinated clauses.
The measures include Euclidean distance, max-min distance, entropy and cosine similarity. The dif- ferences among the measures are discussed.