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Evaluating a Century of Progress on the Cognitive Science of Adjective Ordering

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ISSN: 2307-387X, Vol: 11, Page: 1185-1200
2023
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The literature on adjective ordering abounds with proposals meant to account for why cer-tain adjectives appear before others in multi-adjective strings (e.g., the small brown box). However, these proposals have been devel-oped and tested primarily in isolation and based on English; few researchers have looked at the combined performance of multiple fac-tors in the determination of adjective order, and few have evaluated predictors across multiple languages. The current work approaches both of these objectives by using technologies and datasets from natural language processing to look at the combined performance of existing proposals across 32 languages. Comparing this performance with both random and ideal-ized baselines, we show that the literature on adjective ordering has made significant mean-ingful progress across its many decades, but there remains quite a gap yet to be explained.

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