2 papers
cs.CL2026
The Grammar Does the Work: Functional vs. Lexical Dependency Length Minimization Across Universal Dependencies
Kim Gerdes
Dependency length minimization (DLM) is a well-documented processing universal, but previous studies report a single mean dependency distance (MDD) per language, obscuring variatio…
cs.CL2026
AfriSUD: A Dependency Treebank Collection for Evaluating Models on African Languages
Happy Buzaaba, Cheikh Mouhamadou Bamba Dione, David Ifeoluwa Adelani +15
Despite their linguistic diversity and global significance, African languages remain underrepresented in research and resources to support NLP. We aim to bridge this gap by introdu…