On the structural complexity of natural language sentences

Constraints on variables in syntax

Ross, J. R. (1967) · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · Cited by 3,203 · see citing works

Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar.

Soames, S., Gazdar, G. J. M., Klein, E., Pullum, G. K., & Sag, I. A. (1989) · The Philosophical Review · doi:10.2307/2185122 · Cited by 1,829 · see citing works

Dependency Syntax: Theory and Practice

Meltschuk, I. A. (1987) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 1,421 · see citing works

English focus constructions and the theory of grammar . By Michael S. Rochemont and Peter W. Culicover Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. vii, 210. Cloth $49.50

Kiss, K. É. (1993) · Language · doi:10.2307/416541 · Cited by 197 · see citing works

Crossed and nested dependencies in German and Dutch: A psycholinguistic study

Bach, E., Brown, C. M., & Marslen‐Wilson, W. D. (1986) · Language and Cognitive Processes · doi:10.1080/01690968608404677 · Cited by 191 · see citing works

Spoken Language Derived Measures for Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment

Roark, B., Mitchell, M., Hosom, J.-P., Hollingshead, K., & Kaye, J. (2011) · IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing · doi:10.1109/tasl.2011.2112351 · Cited by 355 · see citing works

The efficacy of human post-editing for language translation

Green, S., Heer, J., & Manning, C. D. (2013) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/2470654.2470718 · Cited by 191 · see citing works

Dependency Grammar and Dependency Parsing

Nivre, J. (2005) · Cited by 173 · see citing works

READ--IT: Assessing Readability of Italian Texts with a View to Text Simplification

Dell’Orletta⋄, F., Montemagni⋄, S., & Venturi⋄, G. (2011) · CNR ExploRA · Cited by 137 · see citing works

A Review of Automated Speech and Language Features for Assessment of Cognitive and Thought Disorders

Voleti, R., Liss, J. M., & Berisha, V. (2020) · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing · doi:10.1109/jstsp.2019.2952087 · Cited by 96 · see citing works

Dependency Parsing with an Extended Finite-State Approach

Oflazer, K. (2003) · Computational Linguistics · doi:10.1162/089120103322753338 · Cited by 65 · see citing works

Novel estimation methods for unsupervised discovery of latent structure in natural language text

Eisner, J. M., & Smith, N. A. (2007) · Cited by 59 · see citing works

Computerized assessment of syntactic complexity in Alzheimer’s disease: a case study of Iris Murdoch’s writing

Pakhomov, S., Chacón, D. A., Wicklund, M., & Gundel, J. K. (2010) · Behavior Research Methods · doi:10.3758/s13428-010-0037-9 · Cited by 58 · see citing works

A user study of neural interactive translation prediction

Knowles, R., Sánchez-Torrón, M., & Koehn, P. (2019) · Machine Translation · doi:10.1007/s10590-019-09235-8 · Cited by 48 · see citing works

Automatically Predicting Sentence Translation Difficulty

Mishra, A., Bhattacharyya, P., & Carl, M. (2013) · Cited by 44 · see citing works

Measuring Sentiment Annotation Complexity of Text

Joshi, A., Mishra, A., Senthamilselvan, N., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2014) · Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting · doi:10.3115/v1/p14-2007 · Cited by 40 · see citing works

A Cognitive Cost Model of Annotations Based on Eye-Tracking Data

Tomanek, K., Hahn, U., Lohmann, S., & Ziegler, J. (2010) · Cited by 39 · see citing works

Summarizing Information Graphics Textually

Demir, Ş., Carberry, S., & McCoy, K. F. (2011) · Computational Linguistics · doi:10.1162/coli_a_00091 · Cited by 38 · see citing works

PaCCSS-IT: A Parallel Corpus of Complex-Simple Sentences for Automatic Text Simplification

Brunato⋄, D., Cimino, A., Dell’Orletta⋄, F., & Venturi⋄, G. (2016) · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · doi:10.18653/v1/d16-1034 · Cited by 36 · see citing works

Assessing document and sentence readability in less resourced languages and across textual genres

Dell’Orletta⋄, F., Montemagni⋄, S., & Venturi⋄, G. (2014) · ITL Review of Applied Linguistics · doi:10.1075/itl.165.2.03del · Cited by 26 · see citing works

Scanpath Complexity: Modeling Reading Effort Using Gaze Information

Mishra, A., Kanojia, D., Nagar, S., Dey, K., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2017) · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · doi:10.1609/aaai.v31i1.11159 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

The SPLeT-2012 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing of Legal Texts

Marchi, S., Montemagni⋄, S., Plank, B., & Venturi⋄, G. (2012) · Cited by 19 · see citing works

Automated Measures of Syntactic Complexity in Natural Speech Production: Older and Younger Adults as a Case Study

Agmon, G., Pradhan, S., Ash, S., Nevler, N., Liberman, M., Grossman, M., & Cho, S. (2024) · Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research · doi:10.1044/2023_jslhr-23-00009 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Dependency parsing with an extended finite state approach

Oflazer, K. (1999) · Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting · doi:10.3115/1034678.1034722 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

ULISSE: an Unsupervised Algorithm for Detecting Reliable Dependency Parses

Dell’Orletta⋄, F., Venturi⋄, G., & Montemagni⋄, S. (2011) · CNR ExploRA · Cited by 15 · see citing works

Linguistic Profiling based on General--purpose Features and Native Language Identification

Cimino, A., Dell’Orletta⋄, F., Venturi⋄, G., & Montemagni⋄, S. (2013) · CNR ExploRA · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Sentence-Level Readability Assessment for L2 Chinese Learning

Lü, D., Qiu, X., & Cai, Y. (2020) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_40 · Cited by 13 · see citing works

Scanpath Complexity: Modeling Reading/Annotation Effort Using Gaze Information

Mishra, A., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2018) · Cognitive intelligence and robotics · doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1516-9_4 · Cited by 13 · see citing works

Linguistically-Based Comparison of Different Approaches to Building Corpora for Text Simplification: A Case Study on Italian

Brunato⋄, D., Dell’Orletta⋄, F., & Venturi⋄, G. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.707630 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Predictive Turn in Translation Studies: Review and Prospects

Schaeffer, M. J., Nitzke, J., & Hansen‐Schirra, S. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_217-1 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing at Evalita 2011

Dell’Orletta⋄, F., Marchi, S., Montemagni⋄, S., Venturi⋄, G., Agnoloni, T., & Francesconi, E. (2013) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35828-9_7 · Cited by 10 · see citing works

Linguistically-driven Selection of Correct Arcs for Dependency Parsing

Dell’Orletta⋄, F., Venturi⋄, G., & Montemagni⋄, S. (2013) · CNR ExploRA · doi:10.13053/cys-17-2-1517 · Cited by 10 · see citing works

The link between translation difficulty and the quality of machine translation: a literature review and empirical investigation

Araghi, S., & Palangkaraya, A. (2024) · Language Resources and Evaluation · doi:10.1007/s10579-024-09735-x · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Automatic Generation of Multiple-Choice Items for Prepositions Based on Word2vec

Xiao, W., Wang, M., Zhang, C., Tan, Y., & Chen, Z. (2018) · Communications in computer and information science · doi:10.1007/978-981-13-2206-8_8 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Predictive Turn in Translation Studies: Review and Prospects

Schaeffer, M. J., Nitzke, J., & Hansen‐Schirra, S. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_217 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Linguistic Profiling of Texts Across Textual Genres and Readability Levels. An Exploratory Study on Italian Fictional Prose

Dell’Orletta⋄, F., Montemagni⋄, S., & Venturi⋄, G. (2013) · International conference Recent advances in natural language processing · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Coh-Metrix-Dementia: análise automática de distúrbios de linguagem nas demências utilizando Processamento de Línguas Naturais

da Cunha, A. L. V. (2016) · doi:10.11606/d.55.2016.tde-31082016-095132 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Swap distance minimization in SOV languages. Cognitive and mathematical foundations

Ferrer‐i‐Cancho, R., & Namboodiripad, S. (2023) · Glottometrics · doi:10.53482/2023_55_412 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

A curious case of retrogenesis in language: Automated analysis of language patterns observed in dementia patients and young children

Li, C., Solinsky, J., Cohen, T., & Pakhomov, S. (2023) · Neuroscience Informatics · doi:10.1016/j.neuri.2023.100155 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Estimating Annotation Complexities of Text Using Gaze and Textual Information

Mishra, A., & Bhattacharyya, P. (2018) · Cognitive intelligence and robotics · doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1516-9_3 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

A quantitative study of translation difficulty based on an analysis of text features in japanese-to-english short-passage translation tests

Howard, D. L. (2016) · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Who is the root in a syntactic dependency structure?

Ferrer‐i‐Cancho, R., & Arias, M. (2026) · Applied Network Science · doi:10.1007/s41109-025-00760-5

Measuring Grammatical Diversity from Small Corpora: Derivational Entropy Rates, Mean Length of Utterances, and Annotation Invariance

Martı́n, F. M. D. P. (2025) · Computational Linguistics · doi:10.1162/coli.a.15

Syntactic complexity

Frazier, L. (1985) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511597855.005 · Cited by 199 · see citing works

The formal complexity of natural language

Savitch, W. J. (1987)

Characterizing Human Language by Structural Complexity

Hollebrandse, B., & van Hout, A. (2006)

Syntactic and thematic contributions to sentence complexity

Speer, S., & Foss, D. (1986) · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Constraints on sentence complexity : a model for syntactic processing

Cowper, E. (1976) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 31 · see citing works