Christian Bentz

Dados Biográficos

ID201694
NOMEChristian Bentz
PRENOMESChristian
SOBRENOMEBentz
ASSINATURABENTZ C
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Tübingen
ORCID0000-0001-6570-9326
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES6
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2013
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H2

  • Complexity trade-offs and equi-complexity in natural languages

    Open AccessChristian Bentz, Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2023

    In linguistics, there is little consensus on how to define, measure, and compare complexity across languages. We propose to take the diversity of viewpoints as a given, and to capture the complexity of a language by a vector of measurements, rather than a single value. We then assess the statistical support for two controversial hypotheses: the trade-off hypothesis and the equi-complexity hypothesis. We furnish meta-analyses of 28 complexity metr…

  • Measuring language complexity

    Open AccessKatharina Ehret, Aleksandrs Berdičevskis et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2023

    This special issue focuses on measuring language complexity. The contributions address methodological challenges, discuss implications for theoretical research, and use complexity measurements for testing theoretical claims. In this introductory article, we explain what knowledge can be gained from quantifying complexity. We then describe a workshop and a shared task which were our attempt to develop a systematic approach to the challenge of find…

  • Languages Through the Looking Glass of BPE Compression

    Open AccessXimena Gutierrez-Vasques, Christian Bentz et al.ARTICLEComputational Linguistics2023Referências: 6

    Byte-pair encoding (BPE) is widely used in NLP for performing subword tokenization. It uncovers redundant patterns for compressing the data, and hence alleviates the sparsity problem in downstream applications. Subwords discovered during the first merge operations tend to have the most substantial impact on the compression of texts. However, the structural underpinnings of this effect have not been analyzed cross-linguistically. We conduct in-dep…

  • Meaning and Measures

    Open AccessKatharina Ehret, Alice Blumenthal‐dramé et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2021

    Research on language complexity has been abundant and manifold in the past two decades. Within typology, it has to a very large extent been motivated by the question of whether all languages are equally complex, and if not, which language-external factors affect the distribution of complexity across languages. To address this and other questions, a plethora of different metrics and approaches has been put forward to measure the complexity of lang…

  • The evolution of language families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift

    Open AccessChristian Bentz, Dan Dediu et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2018Citada por: 2Referências: 35

  • Modern human origins and dispersal

    Open AccessYonatan Sahle, Hugo Reyes‐centeno et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2018Citada por: 4Referências: 16

  • Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case

    Christian Bentz, Bronwyn Winter et al.ARTICLELanguage Dynamics and Change2013

    In this paper, we provide quantitative evidence showing that languages spoken by many second language speakers tend to have relatively small nominal case systems or no nominal case at all. In our sample, all languages with more than 50% second language speakers had no nominal case. The negative association between the number of second language speakers and nominal case complexity generalizes to different language areas and families. As there are …