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most citedThe statistical trade-off between word order and word structure - large-scale evidence for the principle of least effort

82 citations

9 papers

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Still no evidence for an effect of the proportion of non-native speakers on language complexity -- A response to Kauhanen, Einhaus & Walkden (2023)

Alexander Koplenig

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Language Evolution, Kauhanen, Einhaus & Walkden (https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzad005, KEW) challenge the results presented in one of…

cs.CL2020★ 6 cited

Tracking, exploring and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis: cOWIDplus Analysis and cOWIDplus Viewer

Sascha Wolfer, Alexander Koplenig, Frank Michaelis +1

The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest crisis the world has had to face since World War II. It does not come as a surprise that it is also having an impact on language as our…

cs.CL2019

LMF Reloaded

Laurent Romary, Mohamed Khemakhem, Fahad Khan +5

Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) or ISO 24613 [1] is a de jure standard that provides a framework for modelling and encoding lexical information in retrodigitised print dictionaries…

cs.NE2016★ 21 cited

A modular architecture for transparent computation in Recurrent Neural Networks

Giovanni Sirio Carmantini, Peter beim Graben, Mathieu Desroches +1

Computation is classically studied in terms of automata, formal languages and algorithms; yet, the relation between neural dynamics and symbolic representations and operations is s…

cs.CL2016★ 82 cited

The statistical trade-off between word order and word structure - large-scale evidence for the principle of least effort

Alexander Koplenig, Peter Meyer, Sascha Wolfer +1

Languages employ different strategies to transmit structural and grammatical information. While, for example, grammatical dependency relationships in sentences are mainly conveyed…

cs.CL2015★ 30 cited

Population size predicts lexical diversity, but so does the mean sea level - why it is important to correctly account for the structure of temporal data

Alexander Koplenig, Carolin Mueller-Spitzer

In order to demonstrate why it is important to correctly account for the (serial dependent) structure of temporal data, we document an apparently spectacular relationship between p…