3 papers
cs.CL2026
On the feasibility of dependency parsing of non-human sequences without a gold standard. Is evaluation possible in other species?
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Catherine Hobaiter, Thore Bergman +1
Dependency parsing consists of finding a tree representation for a sequence. Unsupervised dependency parsing aims to develop parsing methods without a gold standard during model tr…
cs.CL2025
Who is the root in a syntactic dependency structure?
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Marta Arias
The syntactic structure of a sentence can be described as a tree that indicates the syntactic relationships between words. In spite of significant progress in unsupervised methods…
cs.CL2025
On the class of coding optimality of human languages and the origins of Zipf's law
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Here we present a new class of optimality for coding systems. Members of that class are displaced linearly from optimal coding and thus exhibit Zipf's law, namely a power-law distr…