An analysis of linguistic data based on social choice concepts
The ranking of sentence forms by a set of individuals is an important problem in linguistic analysis. This can be interpreted as a social choice problem in which we have information about individual preferences and wish to devise a group ranking of the sentences. This paper discusses the relevant so...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of pragmatics 1993-03, Vol.19 (3), p.253-270 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The ranking of sentence forms by a set of individuals is an important problem in linguistic analysis. This can be interpreted as a social choice problem in which we have information about individual preferences and wish to devise a group ranking of the sentences. This paper discusses the relevant social choice theorems and illustrates how they can be applied to some Dutch linguistic data. |
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| ISSN: | 0378-2166 1879-1387 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0378-2166(93)90031-J |