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The Linear Arrangement Library. A new tool for research on syntactic dependency structures
Lluís Alemany-Puig, Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The new and growing field of Quantitative Dependency Syntax has emerged at the crossroads between Dependency Syntax and Quantitative Linguistics. One of the main concerns in this f…
Dependency distance minimization predicts compression
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
Dependency distance minimization (DDm) is a well-established principle of word order. It has been predicted theoretically that DDm implies compression, namely the minimization of w…
Linear-time calculation of the expected sum of edge lengths in random projective linearizations of trees
Lluís Alemany-Puig, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The syntactic structure of a sentence is often represented using syntactic dependency trees. The sum of the distances between syntactically related words has been in the limelight…
Zipf's laws of meaning in Catalan
Neus Català, Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-Cancho +2
In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf formulated a couple of statistical laws on the relationship between the frequency of a word with its number of meanings: the law of meaning d…
The advent and fall of a vocabulary learning bias from communicative efficiency
David Carrera-Casado, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Biosemiosis is a process of choice-making between simultaneously alternative options. It is well-known that, when sufficiently young children encounter a new word, they tend to int…
Minimum projective linearizations of trees in linear time
Lluís Alemany-Puig, Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The Minimum Linear Arrangement problem (MLA) consists of finding a mapping from vertices of a graph to distinct integers that minimizes . In t…