Measuring the morpho-syntactic ambiguity using the edit distance functions

This paper presents the application of edit distance functions for the measuring of morphological ambiguity and similarity between the natural languages. We propose sequence and tree edit distance functions for the Universal dependencies framework, which compare both morphological and syntactical annotations of the words in the sentences. The experiments were performed with the Slovak as a reference language and set of Slavic languages for comparison.

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This study applied edit distance functions to measure morphological ambiguity and similarity between natural languages by comparing both morphological and syntactical annotations of words in sentences. Experiments conducted with Slovak as the reference language and a set of Slavic languages showed the effectiveness of this method within the Universal dependencies framework.