| Title | The Statistical Analysis of Morphosyntactic Distributions |
| Author(s) |
Stefan Evert
IMS, University of Stuttgart |
| Session | O33-TW |
| Abstract | This paper describes methods for the statistical analysis of quantitative data on the distribution of morphosyntactic features. A key problem is the large amount of ambiguity in automatically extracted data. In the paper, I argue for a conservative approach that treats ambiguous instances as counter-evidence. It is nonetheless possible to obtain detailed morphosyntactic information from the corpus data with the help of partial disambiguation and by exploiting systematic ambiguity classes. |
| Keyword(s) | Morphology, feature distributions, statistics |
| Language(s) | German |
| Full Paper | 781.pdf |