Sentence Complexity in French: a Corpus-Based Approach
Résumé
Language complexity is a notion widely used in a number of
linguistic fields and language applications, and can be described by a
number of linguistic features and practical measures. This work
proposes a closer, data-oriented look at sentence complexity.
Starting from a number of different studies, we selected and
implemented 52 linguistic features and measured them on a corpus of
varied French texts. Using statistical methods, we identify five
underlying dimensions of sentence complexity. In addition to
providing a better understanding of the phenomenon, these dimensions
have been used in some information retrieval experiments.
linguistic fields and language applications, and can be described by a
number of linguistic features and practical measures. This work
proposes a closer, data-oriented look at sentence complexity.
Starting from a number of different studies, we selected and
implemented 52 linguistic features and measured them on a corpus of
varied French texts. Using statistical methods, we identify five
underlying dimensions of sentence complexity. In addition to
providing a better understanding of the phenomenon, these dimensions
have been used in some information retrieval experiments.
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