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The aim of the present work is to find clues on how to compare the difficulties of five languages for morphosyntactic analysis and the development of lexicographic resources running a corpora and lexical comparative study on multilingual parallel corpora and morphosyntactic lexicons. First, we ran some corpus-based experiments without any other type of knowledge, following classical measures used in lexical statistics. Then we carried out further experiments on the corpora using morphosyntactic lexicons. Finally, we plotted given diagrams using different clues to offer an overview of the difficulty of a language for the development of morphosyntactic resources.
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Blancafort, H., de Loupy, C. (2011). Clues to Compare Languages for Morphosyntactic Analysis: A Study Run on Parallel Corpora and Morphosyntactic Lexicons. In: Vetulani, Z. (eds) Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. LTC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6562. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20095-3_31
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