Published: 2017-09-13
ISBN: 978-91-7685-467-9
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper shows how the current Universal Dependency treebanks can be used for clustering structural global linguistic features of the treebanks to reveal a purely structural syntactic typology of languages. Different uni- and multi-dimensional data extraction methods are explored and tested in order to assess both the coherence of the underlying syntactic data and the quality of the clustering methods themselves.
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