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Predicting Declension Class from Form and Meaning
2020
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
unpublished
The noun lexica of many natural languages are divided into several declension classes with characteristic morphological properties. Class membership is far from deterministic, but the phonological form of a noun and its meaning can often provide imperfect clues. Here, we investigate the strength of those clues. More specifically, we operationalize "strength" as measuring how much information, in bits, we can glean about declension class from knowing the form and meaning of nouns. We know that
doi:10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.597
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