A corpus study on the number of true proportional analogies between chunks in two typologically different languages
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We measure the number of true proportional analogies between chunks in two typologically different languages on a similar corpus: a 20,000 sentence long Japanese-English bicorpus. We verify that at least 96% of analogies of form between chunks are also analogies of meaning. We conclude that analogy ought to be considered as a reliable structuring device between chunks.
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